Free: Dead A1148 Battery

2010-09-08 Thread Sonic Purity
This may be one of those “What are you, Nuts?!” posts, yet i thought it worth trying before it heads to e-waste. One dead, opened up Apple A1148 battery, a.k.a. “15-inch PowerBook G4 Rechargeable Battery”. I thought i’d try replacing the individual cells as i’ve read that some people do, yet

FS: Mac Magazines, late 1980s-mid 1990s

2012-09-16 Thread Sonic Purity
Approximately 35 Mac-related magazines, in good to very good condition. Most were read twice, so other than the occasional food crumb or spine crease, they’re close to as-new condition. All are intact except as described below (and yes, i really *did* check every page of every magazine).

FS: Mac Magazines, late 1980s-mid 1990s - prices reduced

2013-01-28 Thread Sonic Purity
Remainder of the magazines i tried to sell last September. I’ve lowered all the prices. LAST CALL: Magazines not sold by about a week from today go into recycling, as most of their peers did years and decades ago. Price too high? Please make an offer! 24 Mac-related magazines, in good to very

FREE: Serial Port Epson Printers, as-is

2013-02-17 Thread Sonic Purity
Free for the cost of shipping, or 100% free for local pickup: * Epson Stylus Color 850 * Epson Stylus Color 800 Both were good quality inkjet printers of the late 1990s. Both feature Mac serial ports as well as the standard parallel printer port. Both predate USB: no USB port. Both worked last

FS: Parting out dead IIci

2013-09-07 Thread Sonic Purity
This IIci suffered capacitor electrolyte leakage back in the 1990s, before i got it. The logic board is history, and sadly so is the power supply. Hard drive is on reserve for another project, but may show up here on LEM Swap later, listed separately. IIci with bad logic board complete,

FS: Quadra 800 with Sonnet Presto PPC

2013-09-18 Thread Sonic Purity
Quadra 800 with a Sonnet Presto PPC 601 100 MHz processor upgrade in the PDS slot, plus a Reudo 110-00015-100 10base-2 and 10base-T Ethernet NuBus card. Loaded with the full 136 MB of RAM possible for this model. No hard drive, no optical drive. Sleds for these drives plus the EMI shield

FS: (2) PC Compatibility Card Mac OS Software CD-ROMs

2013-10-01 Thread Sonic Purity
No idea how i wound up with these… two copies of Apple CD-ROM #691-1576-A, entitled PC Compatibility Card, Mac OS Software. Contains version 1.6.1 of the software which installs and runs under Mac OS for the Apple PC Compatibility Card (“a PC on a card”). I’m pretty sure this same software

FS: Apple PC Compatibility Card

2013-10-01 Thread Sonic Purity
12 card, Apple #820-0729-B. Includes the video loopback cable, the Internal PC Audio/Video Assembly used on the PowerMac 7200 (only), and the original set of two CD-ROMs (Mac OS Software + PC Utilities) plus the PC Software floppy. Unfortunately does not include the two CD drive audio

FS: Power Mac 7600/132

2014-07-22 Thread Sonic Purity
This Power Mac 7600/132 was wildly unstable when i received it from the original owner, with lots of cheap RAM and a processor upgrade card. Dropping back to the original 132 MHz PPC processor helped quite a bit, but not enough. Days and hours with ProVue RAM Check revealed one bad DIMM after

Free, Local Pickup: Macintosh 16 Color Display

2014-07-22 Thread Sonic Purity
This unbeatable, unbreakable Macintosh 16 Color Display M1298 powered right up after about 10 years of disuse with a near-perfect picture: some slight symmetrical keystoning on the bottom, which mostly went away after 2 hours of running. Perfect colors, clear image on the Trinitron C.R.T.

FFS: *Boxed* U.S. Robotics macfax Sportster Modem

2014-10-14 Thread Sonic Purity
Free For Shipping (totally free for local pick-up, which i encourage): U.S. Robotics macfax Sportster 14,400 Fax/Data Modem. Back in 1993 when i bought it new, CCITT V.32bis with V.42bis and 14,400 bps Group III Fax was state-of-the-art. Served me well back in the day, until faster modems came

FS: Power Mac 6500/225

2014-10-14 Thread Sonic Purity
Asking $30 for a Power Mac 6500/225 with 603ev processor, 128 MB RAM (maximum for this model), 3 GB hard drive, 12x CD-ROM drive. Internal 33.6kbps modem in the comm slot. USB PCI card (unidentified). PRAM battery is dead or missing (i didn’t look). This Mac came to me in a group of various

200 MHz 604e CPU card

2014-10-15 Thread Sonic Purity
$5 or best offer for a tested, working 200 MHz 604e CPU daughter card. Complete, with heatsink, ready to drop into a PowerSurge series machine (7500/8500/9500 and many related models). Tested today in an 8500 chassis. Price does *not* include shipping. Local pickup is encouraged where

FS: HP DeskWriter 660C Serial port color printer

2014-10-15 Thread Sonic Purity
Asking $20 OBO for a mechanically-working needs ink Hewlett Packard DeskWriter 660C 600 dpi serial port color printer. This one loses points because the ink cartridges are dried out, so it will need new ones. It gains points because i very carefully modded the control buttons and front panel

FS: NOS 8-bay SCSI Tower

2014-11-26 Thread Sonic Purity
New Old Stock SCSI Tower, no maker/model. 250W power supply, well over 8 standard power connectors, including one smaller (Zip) size and 2 standard size wired for 12V only. 2 cooling fans + the one in the power supply. Includes all internal wiring for standard 50-pin narrow SCSI (same as

FS: Manuals (software and hardware)

2014-12-05 Thread Sonic Purity
Media Mail shipping is extra; local pick up (Pasadena, California) as always is free. All prices are “or best offer” (all the way down to free for shipping or 100% free for local pick-up). *Apple Manuals* 25¢ ImageWriter (I) User’s Manual Part 1: Reference (thin spiral-bound) 50¢ PowerMacintosh

FS: orig. 400 MHz TiBook Parts Unit

2015-03-09 Thread Sonic Purity
First-model PowerBook G4 400 MHz Titanium, a.k.a. M5884, PowerBook3,2, PowerPC G4 (11.2) 384 MB RAM, 10 GB HD Dead main battery. Given to me back in 2010. At that time, it ran, albeit with intermittent issues with both AirPort and Ethernet, each of which worked for a time then stopped, then

FS: assorted vintage Software (some free)

2015-03-26 Thread Sonic Purity
*OS* * System 7.5 (11 HD floppy disk set) $20 * Apple Macintosh CD for Power Macintosh. Label lists 7200/75 and 7200/90. Files on disc discuss 7200 and 9500. SSW version 7.5.2. CD version 1.0. 691-0415-A. $5 * Apple Macintosh CD for Macintosh LC 580 and LC 630. SSW version 7.5. CD Version

FS: *Box* for 13 MacBook Pro A1278

2015-05-19 Thread Sonic Purity
Empty, decent-condition original box for the 13 inch LED-backlit MacBook Pro Model No. A1278, Part No. MC374LL/A Given to me with something entirely different inside. No inserts, no papers, no anything other than the box itself. The going price for boxes seems to be $20 including shipping to

FS: Multiple Scan 15 Display M2943 (original box etc.)

2015-05-19 Thread Sonic Purity
Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display model M2943 Includes original box/packing (plain brown, not the usual fancy Apple boxes), owner’s manual, speaker audio cable. The DA-15 (usually mis-identified as DB-15) Mac video cable is attached. The manual shows a power cord with a standard wall receptacle

FS: more assorted vintage Software (cheap, a couple free)

2015-05-19 Thread Sonic Purity
Found some more (it never seems to end!): *Games* * Marathon 2 DurandalRequires ≥68040, 5 MB RAM, 13 256 color display, System 7 or newer. 1995(CD-ROM)$2 * Sim City version 1.1 monochrome, 512ke or newer. In original box (floppy)$3 * Star Fleet I version 2.1Requires 512k

FS: Software on CD-ROM: Mac OS 8, AppleWorks 5, etc.

2015-08-03 Thread Sonic Purity
Still cleaning… still finding things i no longer need. All the following are on CD-ROM, in slim or standard jewel cases. All worked when last used. All CD-ROMs mounted to the desktop of a 9600/350 with the stock 24x optical drive, today. *Mac OS 8*(.0) The retail white label initial release of

FS: Truevision Bravado 1000 video capture card + Adobe Premier

2015-07-24 Thread Sonic Purity
Selling as-is cheap what was allegedly at one time a $1000 PCI video capture card, bundled with Adobe Premier 4.2. In original box with original paperwork, manuals, install CDs (as best i can tell. I’m not the original owner). The PCI card itself has S-video and RCA analog video inputs and

FS: ZBasic and Microsoft Basic

2015-10-08 Thread Sonic Purity
Circa 1985 400k MFS floppy disks inherited from my brother, who briefly worked for a very early Mac developer (never brought a product to market). Floppies only, and i know nothing about them other than what’s printed on the diskettes: “ZBasic Macintosh™ version ©1985 Zedcore Inc.” One floppy

FS: Scrabble: The Deluxe Computer Edition (Mac)

2015-10-08 Thread Sonic Purity
The Macintosh edition of Scrabble: The Deluxe Computer Edition ©1990 Virgin Games Inc. Three HFS (i think 800k) floppy disks, tested today in Disinfectant to ensure a) they operate, b) no viri. Besides the 3 floppy disks, this sale includes the 22 page Win PC-oriented booklet and the one-page

FS: PowerBook 1xx trackball Macs, as-is for parts

2015-07-11 Thread Sonic Purity
Liquidating my collection of three 1990s PowerBook 1xx series trackball Macs, plus parts and accessories. One of these machines, a FrankenMac PB 140/145/170, is close to operational and is fully loaded; the other two (PB 165 and PB 180c) are parts only (the 180c might be repairable by a

FS: NOS 8-bay SCSI Tower

2015-11-23 Thread Sonic Purity
New Old Stock SCSI Tower, no maker/model. 250W power supply, well over 8 standard power connectors, including one smaller (Zip) size and 2 standard size wired for 12V only. 2 cooling fans + the one in the power supply. Includes all internal wiring for standard 50-pin narrow SCSI (same as

FS: System 7.5 on floppies

2015-11-23 Thread Sonic Purity
Original Apple 11 HD floppy disk set of Macintosh System 7.5 in a nice flip-open plastic storage box. Asking $20 + shipping, or best offer. Local pickup is encouraged where possible. I am making my best guess on price without having done much research, and will be happy to work with you

FS: HDI-20 External Floppy Disk Drive (for PowerBooks)

2015-11-23 Thread Sonic Purity
*Macintosh HDI-20 External 1.4MB Floppy Disk Drive* This is the one which plugs into the back of the PowerBook 1xx series (140, 170, etc.). Visually in quite good condition. Very light scuffs which can only be seen in certain lighting/angles, a tiny tear in the model/FCC ID sticker on the

FS: parting out iMac (Early 2006 20-inch)

2016-01-27 Thread Sonic Purity
Get what you want/need without being burdened with a whole heavy machine. Everything from the smallest screw up to the case is available, except *not* : - Hard drive - RAM - Optical drive This iMac suffered the very popular X1600 GPU failure, therefore the logic board is likely of little use.

FREE for shipping: *Box* for last model PowerBook G4 15" A1138

2016-06-29 Thread Sonic Purity
Complete original box for the very last 15 inch PowerBook G4 model (hi res DL DVD A1138) with styrofoam inserts and protective sleeves. In excellent condition, almost like new (was stored inside another sturdy corrugated cardboard box, undisturbed for years). Has “Opened, inspected, and

FS: PowerBook 100 series AC Adapter M5651 and Battery Case

2016-06-29 Thread Sonic Purity
Sold off my entire collection of PB 1xx stuff a year or so ago, and somehow these two escaped (lost in the massive clutter that is my vintage Mac collection). Original Apple (OEMed by Sony) PowerBook AC Adapter M5651 (APS-20U) Output DC 7.5V 2.0A Dark gray, sold and used with the PowerBook 100

FS: 20" LCD Panel for Early 2006 iMac

2016-07-01 Thread Sonic Purity
Only $5 + shipping (because shipping is likely to be expensive). Please note that i welcome local pick-up, to negate any shipping costs. LG Philips LM201W01 20" LCD panel from a white iMac4,1, a.k.a. Early 2006. Panel looked great to me, however i cannot give a good/bad pixel count, because

WTB: Key Caps + Hinges or Keyboard (maybe more) for 15" Mid-2012 Non-Retina MacBook Pro

2016-09-19 Thread Sonic Purity
Trying to get a Mid-2012 15" Non-Retina MacBookPro9,1 A1286 fully functional again (for short money). Got it used from a pawn shop: many thrashed (melted) keys and some of the keys have the wrong hinge mechanism. The key cup “springs” and the keyboard itself seem to function just fine. Hoping

WTB: Key Caps or Keyboard for 15" MBP Unibody 2009-2012

2016-11-02 Thread Sonic Purity
I seek: *A)* The following keys + hinges: 3 E left Command Hinge only: F12 (or any other same-sized F keys) Note that Apple used two different incompatible keyboard/hinge designs. I need the one shown as Rev. B

Re: For Free (plus cost of shipping) - PCI and AGP Cards

2017-07-05 Thread Sonic Purity
On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 5:48:31 PM UTC-7, DLC wrote: > > * a couple of high end Atto SCSI controller cards, one is an SCSI-II > Greetings Dana, The one ATTO card listed above is of mild interest to me. Chances are i’ll never use it, but i’d rather have it sitting in my closet than