04-20-2011, 02:55 AM
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.
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.