I thought it would be fun to have a thread with pictures full of rare PowerPC items. The posts don't have to be just about machines. Items like processor upgrades, video cards, or rare peripherals in your collections would be nice to see and document. I'll get us started with two items that I have.
Working Wallstreet battery. I bought a 13" 250mhz Wallstreet 1 a while ago, and the battery was supposedly dead. I ran Battery Reset on it, and it started charging. Under OS 9, I get almost 4 hours of life out of it. I haven't tested it fully under Tiger, as one of my 256mb RAM sticks has died, and Tiger is almost unusable at 384mb of RAM. I'm willing to bet that the machine was never off the charger during its entire life, and that the battery reset was unnecessary, but there you go. Here it is in my PDQ (my 13" has the typical glitchy screen issues, so it's not being used at the moment)-
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Mac Geforce3 video card. I've had nothing but luck with these cards, having owned two of them. The first one I owned, I think I paid $5 for it at the local e-recycler. I traded it off to @bunnspecial for the cost of a brand new SSD a few years ago, as I no longer had my Cube and wasn't using it. The second one I have, I found a post on the Low End Mac Facebook page from a seller who was getting rid of a bunch of parts. I paid $20 for this one, and have since gotten another Cube, so I'm keeping this one. Here it is in my Sawtooth prior to receiving my Cube-
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... and in the Cube-
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(Incidentally, the Cube is running Tiger and Leopard off a 180gb Intel SSD drive in a OWC Mercury Firewire enclosure, with OS 9.0.4 on the original 20gb spinner drive within the Cube. I can't upgrade above this while attached to the Cinema Display for some odd reason, as the display blinks out after extension load, even booted with extensions off. I'm at a loss why, as I've tried everything).
Working Wallstreet battery. I bought a 13" 250mhz Wallstreet 1 a while ago, and the battery was supposedly dead. I ran Battery Reset on it, and it started charging. Under OS 9, I get almost 4 hours of life out of it. I haven't tested it fully under Tiger, as one of my 256mb RAM sticks has died, and Tiger is almost unusable at 384mb of RAM. I'm willing to bet that the machine was never off the charger during its entire life, and that the battery reset was unnecessary, but there you go. Here it is in my PDQ (my 13" has the typical glitchy screen issues, so it's not being used at the moment)-
Mac Geforce3 video card. I've had nothing but luck with these cards, having owned two of them. The first one I owned, I think I paid $5 for it at the local e-recycler. I traded it off to @bunnspecial for the cost of a brand new SSD a few years ago, as I no longer had my Cube and wasn't using it. The second one I have, I found a post on the Low End Mac Facebook page from a seller who was getting rid of a bunch of parts. I paid $20 for this one, and have since gotten another Cube, so I'm keeping this one. Here it is in my Sawtooth prior to receiving my Cube-
... and in the Cube-
(Incidentally, the Cube is running Tiger and Leopard off a 180gb Intel SSD drive in a OWC Mercury Firewire enclosure, with OS 9.0.4 on the original 20gb spinner drive within the Cube. I can't upgrade above this while attached to the Cinema Display for some odd reason, as the display blinks out after extension load, even booted with extensions off. I'm at a loss why, as I've tried everything).
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