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Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - ka jowct - 04-20-2011
On one of my stops tonight, I spotted a discarded Mac in the locked area where stuff is left for recycling/disposal in this particular building. The mystery key on the set of keys my client had given me seemed worth a try, and lo! the door opened. The carcass was that of an MDD, with power cord. I suspected that it probably had a bad power supply and that turned out to be the case.
It appears to be the 867 model, given that the RAM in the first slot is a 256 MB PC2100 DIMM, which was the stock configuration from Apple. There was also a DDR3 DIMM in there that I don't think would work in that machine. No HD in it (and rather than try to disconnect the power plug from the HD, the person had just cut through the wires, so it's a good thing the power supply was really toast), but the optical drive was still in there, a DVD-RW rather than the stock combo drive, which I took along with its cage and the MDD optical cover, as well as the remaining HD cage, the ATA cables, logic board, processor and heatsink. The nicest find was an Airport card, which is now in my MDD here at home, connecting me to the InterWeb so that I can post this confession that I was powerless to resist a discarded Mac.
The case was in very nice condition, and I left it behind with a twinge or two of regret.
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - Silencio - 04-20-2011
Packrat LEADER! Parallel ATA DVD burners are starting to get hard to find, so that alone is a respectable score.
With those ultra tight Molex connectors, I'm not too surprised someone resorted to just snipping the power cable. Pretty lame, but still kind of understandable.
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - blooz - 04-20-2011
How do you keep finding these old Macs?
I'm starting to suspect that the word has gotten around about you and people have their spotters out watching for you.
"Here she comes—quick, get that dead MDD out here now so we can get rid of it!"
Oh yeah—Scavenger Leader!
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - IronMac - 04-20-2011
blooz wrote:
How do you keep finding these old Macs?
Sounds like they have a scavenging route.
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - steve... - 04-20-2011
:hail: PACKRAT LEADER!
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - Buzz - 04-20-2011
**sniff, sniff** snuffle, whimper. cough.
congrats.
[stealth on]
Mrs. Buzz will chew my arse out big time if she even suspects I read this thread, much less approve.
[/stealth off]
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - haikuman - 04-20-2011
ka jowct wrote:
On one of my stops tonight, I spotted a discarded Mac in the locked area where stuff is left for recycling/disposal in this particular building. The mystery key on the set of keys my client had given me seemed worth a try, and lo! the door opened. The carcass was that of an MDD, with power cord. I suspected that it probably had a bad power supply and that turned out to be the case.
It appears to be the 867 model, given that the RAM in the first slot is a 256 MB PC2100 DIMM, which was the stock configuration from Apple. There was also a DDR3 DIMM in there that I don't think would work in that machine. No HD in it (and rather than try to disconnect the power plug from the HD, the person had just cut through the wires, so it's a good thing the power supply was really toast), but the optical drive was still in there, a DVD-RW rather than the stock combo drive, which I took along with its cage and the MDD optical cover, as well as the remaining HD cage, the ATA cables, logic board, processor and heatsink. The nicest find was an Airport card, which is now in my MDD here at home, connecting me to the InterWeb so that I can post this confession that I was powerless to resist a discarded Mac.
The case was in very nice condition, and I left it behind with a twinge or two of regret.
the Case was nicest part of the Machine *(:>*
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - cbelt3 - 04-20-2011
Redd Foxx leader !
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - OWC Jamie - 04-20-2011
Seder
Re: Can I get a Scavenging Packrat Leader? - gabester - 04-20-2011
I have an MDD G4... in perfectly good working order. I just don't know what to do with it anymore.
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