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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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It's an oldie, but a goodie. A neighbor and family friend called today asking if my brother could help fix their Dell. He gets a lot of calls like this, as it's somewhat of a business for him (even at age 16). Anyway, he mentions that he's going to take in their old iMac to get recycled. Obviously, I can't have this (it's a working computer for chrissakes, and an iMac at that!) so I offered to take it for free. Booyashaka, I got myself a free Bondi iMac. Not just an iMac though. He dropped off a huge box in our garage, and inside it was not just the iMac, but a cornucopia of peripherals. There's a printer, a scanner, an Imation SuperDisk drive, an Iomega USB CD-RW drive, a USB hub, keyboard and mouse, and - get this - a little plastic cat with a PS/2 port on it. Don't ask, I don't know. Oh, and most of this stuff is in the clear white/blue style of the old iMacs, before that became unpopular. Anyway, I saw it briefly as I was leaving for work this morning, so I'll get some pics up tonight when I get home. Then I can figure out what to do with the thing - I'll probably keep the scanner and sell or give away most of the other stuff. Just so long as it doesn't get thrown out. EDIT: My brother, who is at home and obviously playing with all my new stuff, just figured out what the cat thing is. http://www.cedmagic.com/cuecat/cuecat.html It's a barcode scanner. When you plug it in, a little red light shines from the front. So I'm now the proud owner of a cat-shaped barcode scanner. Hooray! Last edited by Luca : 2004-07-31 at 12:33. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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that cue-cat thing was a promotion done by Wired... they gave them away so that users could scan the barcodes on the advertising pages in their magazine... didn't really work well and they didn't have a macintosh version so I didn't really pay too much attention to it...
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Fishhead Family Reunited
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Slightly Off Center
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bummer about the CD drive. I could probably fix it for cheap, with a drive from eBay or even a burner from here:
http://www.mcetech.com/imacrw.html Heck, I just got a nice grab bag like that myself from a client who recently upgraded. PowerBook G4/500 with 512 MB RAM and AirPort (it's going on eBay unless someone makes an offer here), a ZIP 250 (which I'm keeping, cause I need a USB zip occasionally), a pair of Harm-Kar Soundsticks (which you better *believe* I'm keeping), and a few other nice goodies, some of which will need to find their way to eBay. I think we need a new forum or sub-forum for buying and selling... we should call it "The Murbot Fourm". |
High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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cuecats are cool. from what i know u can get them to work with your mac and there are softwares and hacks and stuff. u should also be able to scan your cd and book library and have it retrieve info from amazon.com and stuff...
so did you find any porn or personal files on the imac? portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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luca, if that has firewire, which i believe it does....
i have a few IDE to firewire converters at my office i'm not using. you can have one if you'd like. it was that or toss it. too much of a pain in the ass to ebay anything under $200 for me. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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usurp: I didn't look for any personal files. The damn thing wouldn't even boot properly without turning off extensions, at which point I nuked the entire hard drive. There certainly were plenty of files, as shown by the picture of the computer's desktop. But they were mostly things like school reports and the like.
alcimedes: No firewire, this is a Rev. A 233 MHz machine. Rather, it was one. I sold it a couple weeks ago. $105 shipped. Cost about $40 to ship though, what a beast. Those IDE to Firewire converters - by that do you actually mean Firewire to IDE converters? I'm guessing you mean you plug it into a Firewire port and get an IDE port. So like a Firewire case. If you have a spare Firewire case I might take one for my PowerMac, since I'd prefer my two hard drives to be on separate buses rather than having them shared on a single ATA/66 bus. But I'd rather spend a little money for a high quality 3.5" case that supports super-large drives. Post some more details, I'm curious. The main profit I got from the computer was the OS 9 boxed CD I got. Well, technically it only came with the bare OS 9 CD, but I had an extra OS 9 box I got with a previous purchase. Put 'em together, and bam: $60 for a box and CD. I got $20 from the external CD burner, the SuperDisk didn't work so I trashed it, and the USB hub didn't sell. The printer is worthless and I want to give it away to someone, but I'm keeping the scanner since it works in OS X. |
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