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I just picked up a PowerMAC G5 2.7GHz for $30 CAD. Case has some scratches on it, but inside relatively clean. Blew some dust out. Ran Apple Diagnostics on it and everything passed. It has 4 GB of ram. I installed MorphOS on it and it runs great!
These are photos before I cleaned it up!
These are photos before I cleaned it up!
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My mind, completely blown. That’s an amazing price.
Found a 3g iPod classic in great condition with a FireWire cable (and brick,) a usb cable, original headphones and the matching box for $20. Probably had no clue what they were selling
1979 vintage and works superbly - built to last!
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Damn…nice find!!!
I believe the proper way to break this radio in would be to crack a beer and tune in some Dr. Who on BBC!
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Very nice!
I recently came across a free G5 tower but it had been stripped of the hard drives, ram and video card so I passed on it.
Yours looks very nice though! Good job!
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There's money to be made from G5's still. Apparently. Not sure what anyone could do with this, though.
“Well I heard the G5s ran hot so I decided to give it a little extra airflow.”
Not a bargain in the slightest sense, but when the only other instance of that item is being sold for a couple of grands (Yikes! And no, I'm not talking about the PCI graphics PMG4), I guess it sorts of become one..?
So there you have it, I just scored a DOS Compatibility card, I paid way more than I would have preferred to, but at least I'm glad to have finally crossed that out of my bucket list.
(Still, the day I see a OrangePC 530 within my range, I won't hesitate and pounce on it)
As to what card it is, it's the 7-inch Cyrix 5x86-100 version, I kinda wish it was the 12-inch Pentium one, but since I don't have any 486-type PC in my collection, that's an interesting addition.
Now I gotta figure out how do you actually get this card to play nice in the PM7500..
So there you have it, I just scored a DOS Compatibility card, I paid way more than I would have preferred to, but at least I'm glad to have finally crossed that out of my bucket list.
(Still, the day I see a OrangePC 530 within my range, I won't hesitate and pounce on it)
As to what card it is, it's the 7-inch Cyrix 5x86-100 version, I kinda wish it was the 12-inch Pentium one, but since I don't have any 486-type PC in my collection, that's an interesting addition.
Now I gotta figure out how do you actually get this card to play nice in the PM7500..
Oh wow. What a treat. The “thunk” of sureness in those brushed metal toggle switches must be a delight to use.
Exactly - it's the process that's magic, not necessarily the resultsOh wow. What a treat. The “thunk” of sureness in those brushed metal toggle switches must be a delight to use.
This surely is awesome. I bet there's more copper and metal in that box than in my desktop's PSU. I wonder--and since you have such superb equipment--, how many shortwave broadcasters are out there in this day and age? I'd heard BBC World Service stopped a while back, not sure if that's actually true. Fantastic find!
It's true that there's only a fraction of broadcasters now but still there's plenty of activity in the evenings, on the ham bands you can't hear plenty of digital code chatter and there's the occasional pirate station too
It's true that there's only a fraction of broadcasters now but still there's plenty of activity in the evenings, on the ham bands you can't hear plenty of digital code chatter and there's the occasional pirate station too
Fun project: next time a pirate station you pick up plays a minute-long slow-scan TV signal, record the output, via your analogue radio, then find a slow-scan TV converter utility which can run on PowerPC Macs (not sure there is one, tho), playing the audio back through that utility. I managed to do this last year on an Intel Mac using MultiScan 3B. (Downside: I can only find v1.90 and 1.91, and both of those are 10.6 and up.)
Done that but cheated...never been able to reliably capture a SSTV signal in my location - too much noise.
...and there's the occasional pirate station too
The places where so many Brits got their first break on the airwaves.
The places where so many Brits got their first break on the airwaves.
Was/is there a ministry which, as portrayed by the U.S. film Pump Up the Volume with the Federal Communications Commission, zealously drove white vans in an attempt to triangulate and bust pirate signals?
I think, given my location in central Canada, I’m mostly picking up the SSTV signals from American broadcasters in the northeastern U.S. I think a couple of them have come from Pennsylvania and Vermont, and possibly one from New York state and another from Virginia. Any of the pirate signals from over the Rocky Mountains, though, have been beyond my very modest antenna’s capability. I’m kind of amazed how there’s one person out of B.C. who picks up these eastern signals as if they’re right next door and not some 4,500km away!
Was/is there a ministry which, as portrayed by the U.S. film Pump Up the Volume with the Federal Communications Commission, zealously drove white vans in an attempt to triangulate and bust pirate signals?
Yes, the UK equivalent which conducted such activities was called the DTI: Department of Trade and Industry.
A cat and mouse battle of wills waged between the DTI and the Pirates in perpetuity - with the latter resorting to ever drastic strategies to evade prosecution and to protect their resources. Here's a classic case from the 90s that I remember very well.
You might also find these offshore pirate broadcasters of interest.
The History Of Radio Caroline: The Real Boat That Rocked
The history of Radio Caroline has been a complicated one. However, despite everything, the name and the station live on...
radiofidelity.com
https://www.offshoreechos.com/Laser/Laser story menu.htm (Blockaded by the DTI!)
When it rains, it pours...
After searching for 2 years for a functional one, I got not one, but TWO 17-inch Apple Studio Display CRTs from a seller on Facebook. For the absolute bargain total price of $50 AUD ($30USD). They both have some occasional flicker from the flyback, but definitely not unusable at all.
So happy to have these awesome CRTs, especially for my B&W!
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After searching for 2 years for a functional one, I got not one, but TWO 17-inch Apple Studio Display CRTs from a seller on Facebook. For the absolute bargain total price of $50 AUD ($30USD). They both have some occasional flicker from the flyback, but definitely not unusable at all.
So happy to have these awesome CRTs, especially for my B&W!
Wow! Incredible, awesome find. I'm always hoping to find a 21" model of this. Those would decimate my back trying to collect them but it'd be worth it if I ever stumbled into one.