The week's loot

[humakabula1]

This week i managed to get my hands on the following

<>3x Apple G4 power macs
<>1x Apple Directors edition thingo (old black thing)
<>3x Apple keyboards
<>1x Xbox 360 elite (used and abused )
<>all cables for everything
<>OSX Tiger (10.4?)
<>1x apple CRT monitor
<>An envelope of random xbox 360 stuff (a couple of controllers, buttons case parts etc.)
<>2x cans of spray paint, idk why i got these but i did

all for $260au
care to share your week's inventory?

[tom61]

Loots should go in the Garage Sales thread (even if it's not from a garage sale)

[bicostp]

Luckily upgrading those G4s will be pretty easy. By the time the G3s rolled around, Apple had switched over from expensive EDO RAM to plain old PC-100/133, and they've been using IDE hard drives since the switch to PowerPC around 1992/1993. I think those may be some of the very last Macs that can natively boot into OS 9, if you want to give that a try. (I like that OS a lot, but maybe I'm just nostalgic.) You might be able to run Leopard (10.5) if any of them are 867mhz or faster (or if you use a program like XPostFacto to trick the bootloader).

Max out the RAM, throw in a couple good size hard drives, and dual boot OS 9.2.2 and Tiger. Even if you don't use OS 9 all the time, install it anyway so you can load Classic in OS X and run pretty much every Mac program made since 1984. (Then go Inception on it and load Mini vMac inside Classic...)

[blaze3927]

http://www.dola.com.au" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

best place in canberra/east coast aus to buy recovered/ex government stuff.

just got some leads and some port pentium D's (pent D's 20 each). but i usually buy some cheap stuff each week

[iHackedit]

Nice find blaze. Do they ship to Vic? I can't be bothered finding out (on iPod via tapatalk)

[blaze3927]

yeh they ship australia wide i think, i only ever do pickup though.

[humakabula1]

thanks for the link blaze, i will check it out

@bicostp
the G4's happen to be my favourite mac, so ill be tuning one of them (maxing RAM, cleaning it out etc.)
and the other two i believe are faulty, either broken or missing parts, i want to put a watercooled xbox in one of them.
I used to have an eMac which ran both leopard and OSX 9, i never used 9, except for when i was bored

[Haunted360]

Haha, its all my stuff!

Yea, you can run OS X Leopard with the processor upgrade. I could not be bothered...

And yea, you can trick the BIOS or whatever but there's a MASSIVE slowdown in the performance which I needed to do iPhone dev stuff...

Nice find blaze. Do they ship to Vic? I can't be bothered finding out (on iPod via tapatalk)

Another Aussie!

[iHackedit]

Slowely more aussies are coming here because we win.

[Haunted360]

Slowely more aussies are coming here because we win.

Jesus agrees...

[evilteddy]

I have noticed what seems to be a disproportionally large number of us here.

[Axeon]

Yes there is

[Haunted360]

Yes there is

Are you a fellow Australian member too?

[humakabula1]

update, sortof
i have one of the G4's running with my pc desktop, off the same screen..

putting the directors mac on ebay, marking out xbox 360 screw holes in another G4

[blaze3927]

speaking of xbox 360:
i have one that i use for live stuff, but im looking to get one to jtag it, anyone with xbox360 knowledge in australia know how to get a jtaggable xbox360 cheap?
or if someones has one wanna sell/trade ?