What happened was that I acquired a bunch of semi-working slot loading iMacs for about $5 each. They all have Firewire. Since they all power up showing the blinking "?", I assume the motherboards are good. One or two have 600 MHz IBM processors. (I pulled one from a machine with a cracked case and weak video, so I saw the IBM markings.) Others are 500 MHz. Some have cracked cases, most seem to have failed optical drives, some have weak video. What I'd like to do is combine them into one or two working machines with the best video, CPU, and optical drives.
I think the main obstacle is going to be having enough working optical drives. I think I only have one good one, and it's an odd drive that's not compatible with a tower or a laptop machine. What I'll probably end up doing is selling off almost all of this, and going back to my usual Pismos and G4 towers. Then I won't have to deal with evil embedded CRT's. With what's on hand, I may be able to make one good machine. But after all that, even though it will have a combo optical drive, I don't think it will be able to read DVD+R's. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
