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eBay bargains - what's your latest conquest?

EmilioCube

EmilioCube

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DouglasCarroll said:
Nice find. I really enjoy my WiiU, still playing "Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild" on it and "Mario Kart 8" and of course, it's great for all of my Wii games. As a bonus you can STILL play online games for free instead of paying for the privilege on the Switch using this free nonintrusive method...


Enjoy!

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MK7 online was the game I played the most time by far. From the beginning over the server shutdown on April to today playing over pretendos servers. Its just too much fun to play anything else.
 
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Rairii

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So I found a Lombard on eBay.

I've been interested in a dev system with Grackle+Paddington for a while, so when one showed up on ebay listed as parts or not working, with a broken hinge; a column of dead pixels on the screen; and powering on but not booting, I ended up submitting an offer of £40 which was accepted.

When it arrived, I got it booting into OSX easily enough (someone blessed the OS9 system folder, but OSX was still installed, so I booted into OSX through OF then blessed the OSX system folder).

Once booted I had a nice surprise. The eBay seller couldn't boot the system so listed it under the stock specs on the sticker on the bottom. Turns out it had been upgraded heavily. I was expecting G3 at 333MHz, 64MB of RAM and 4GB HD, I got G3 at 400MHz, the full 512MB of RAM and 20GB HD (I noticed the HD has an apple sticker on it so I guess it came out of some other mac?). Full of the previous owner's personal data of course.

(One of the first things I did was figure out how to reset nvram in hardware. After figuring that out I tried enabling OF little endian mode, because theoretically that should work on grackle systems. Unfortunately it didn't work, either there's a bug in the endianness switching code, or some other part of OF failed to initialise. For anyone else interested, resetting OF nvram on a lombard can be done with the PMU reset button.)
 
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Doq

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I happened upon a Quad.

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How??
 
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Doq said:
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I happened upon a Quad.

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How??
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Good luck LOL. :D

Ive always responded to the macg5 CL auctions Ive run into over the years in the hopes that Id find a quad but the best I have done is my DC 2ghz ... which in its own right is no slouch and one of my favorite PowerPC macs I own. So while my mind says LCS? yes please, perhaps acquiring only air cooled models is a blessing in disguise with the small margin of free time I've had lately.
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Doq said:
Well apparently I don't have that much good luck. It didn't come with a power cable and the one I just had two-day'ed is lost in post. 💀

So I can't even turn it on yet.
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Yep the a1117s take a special power cord so a cable even from an earlier a1047 will not work.

I hope everything works well for you. :)
 
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Yes, they look neat. There were many that looked very similar but were sold under different names - Akitio, inXtron.., some Germany based brand. All made by inXtron, if I'm not mistaken. It would be interesting to know whether your model is OS9 bootable.
 
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ervus said:
Nice find! I have a FW800 card that's 64bit PCI. I wonder if the 64/32bit makes any difference for these? I mostly use it for connecting backup drives and it works great; it can keep up with the IDE drive fine.

I don't remember if I've tried booting from it or using TDM to it though.
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Hmm, I would think that a 64bit card connected to a 64bit PCI slot would outperform 32bit & give a solid performance boost simply because of the increased bandwidth (32-bit: 133MB/s, 266MB/s & 64-bit: 266MB/s, 533MB/s). I will keep an eye out for a 64bit FW800 card for a good price. 64bit FW800 would be a cool upgrade in my QS's 64bit PCI and then I can push my 32bit FW800 to my B&W's 32bit PCI.

Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations as to a good PowerPC OSX app to benchmark 32bit vs 64bit PCI card performance? When I eventually hunt down a 64bit FW800 card, it would be fun to measure/document the performance between the two. I appreciate y'all.
 
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DouglasCarroll said:
These are great. I put an 8tb drive in mine and store it off site as my emergency backup if my house burns down. Has all my movies, music & important files on it. Love all the different io port options!
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I have done something similar. I recently digitized all of my family's important documents like birth certs, marriage licenses, titles, property & medical records, last will & testament/beneficiary instruction, retirement, education & genealogy docs, etc. and put them in SSD format in multiple locations in case of flooding/fire/network failure.

The g-drive pictured is used as a boot/install device for PPC/EIntel OSX primarily. With these high quality enclosures and large capacity SSDs getting so cheap anymore, it's an easy lift and affordable upgrade path that I also will leverage to freshen up my aging legacy NAS.
 
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