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John Piontkowski
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John Piontkowski commented on James Wages's photo 'RetroBright Mouse Restoration - Sticker Bubbles'
I'm having the same issue cleaning several cases. The serial labels are coming loose (none have fallen off completly yet). I'm not sure how I could prevent this.
November 15
LaurentB commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'My growing collection'
Same problem here with lack of space (+25 retro Mac)
November 1
John Piontkowski added a blog post
I have one of these Xceed Color30HR cards, came in a SE/30 I picked up cheap. Does anyone know if this can be used only in and SE/30 ?? Also, since it seems to be quite rare, any ideas on a reasonable value ? Thanks.
October 29
BRCincy commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'been gone a few days, boxes piling up'
The older machines that I had eventually gave out due to age, cracking solder joints and aged capacitors.
October 26
John Piontkowski commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'My growing collection'
it's taking over. i'm slowly trying to get as many in a working condition that I can and sell off the remaining parts I dont need.
October 26
BRCincy commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'My growing collection'
Wow! That's quite a few of the retro machines. I found that I ran out of room for my collection very quickly.
October 26
John Piontkowski commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'been gone a few days, boxes piling up'
fixed the SE, the board that connects the CRT came loose in shipping, plugged that back in and it boots up now, at least to a flashing ?
October 25
Lars (WhyOSX) commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'tower macs'
And if it were a 6500... That Mac is a little bit taller than the G4, measured without the handles and feet. Where's the back handle of the G3 ? I had to remove the rear handle from my G4, too, to put it under the desk. Now its fixed to a G3 to re...
October 25
Kendall Seabury commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'tower macs'
if the 800 was a PowerMac 8100 we would have the exact same ones!!!
October 25
Lars (WhyOSX) commented on John Piontkowski's blog post 'been gone a few days, boxes piling up'
Very nice ! A non-working Mac is one of the sadest things to have around - good luck !
October 25
John Piontkowski joined ApplefanBE's group
Newton owners
For those who love their Newton(s)
October 25
John Piontkowski added a blog post
I was out of town for a few days, when I returned last night I found a lovely pile of USPS and FedEX boxes waiting for me. Todays additions include : 1 Mac Plus, with 400K external drive and extended keyboard -- seller claimed it was dead, ovbio...
October 25
John Piontkowski commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'tower macs'
heh, there was one, it wandered off somewhere, I'll send a search party
October 25
John Piontkowski commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'toaster macs'
no, it's several vert lines or varying thickness. I havent opened it up yet just got the torx 15 I needed from ebay today, looks like I have an afternoon of mac toaster disassembly :)
October 25
Matt Rhinesmith commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'toaster macs'
OOps, sorry, poor SE/30 and Classic. Is it a Simasimac?
October 23
Matt Rhinesmith commented on John Piontkowski's photo 'toaster macs'
The poor SE and Classic! CRINGE. Hope you can get those stickers off.
October 23

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When did you get your first Mac?
2004, 12" powerbook G4
How many Macs do you own?
20+ and growing weekly
Where do you live?
Hutto, TX
How did you hear about RetroMacCast?
lowendmac.com

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Xceed Color30HR

I have one of these Xceed Color30HR cards, came in a SE/30 I picked up cheap. Does anyone know if this can be used only in and SE/30 ?? Also, since it seems to be quite rare, any ideas on a reasonable value ? Thanks.

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 8:22pm — 1 Comment

John Piontkowski

been gone a few days, boxes piling up

I was out of town for a few days, when I returned last night I found a lovely pile of USPS and FedEX boxes waiting for me.

Todays additions include :

1 Mac Plus, with 400K external drive and extended keyboard
-- seller claimed it was dead, ovbiousbly didnt know macs, it boots to a ?? floppy just fine

1 SE with 2 800K drives
-- no display but it does startup chime

1 A9M0106 800K external floppy

1 LC 520 aka performa 520

box o' misc apple AUI adapters

and 1 farallon EtherWave appletalk to e… Continue

Posted on October 25, 2009 at 1:52pm — 3 Comments

John Piontkowski

My growing collection

so far my collection of retro macs includes :
all but the SE/30 at least power on, most of the older ones have floppy issues

2 512K's
1 classic
2 SE's
1 SE/30 (dead, hope to get a working one soon)

1 quadra 800
1 performa 6150 (mostly for parts, but it does power up)
1 performa 5400/200
1 9600/300

2 LC's
2 LCII's
1 performa 405 (aka LCII)
1 LCIII

blueberry iMac 350Mhz slot loading
graphite DV iMac 400Mhz slot loading
eMac 800Mhz

G3 B&W
G4 Digital Audio

and the not so retro ones:

mac M… Continue

Posted on October 19, 2009 at 9:49pm — 5 Comments

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At 7:54am on October 19, 2009, Lars (WhyOSX) said…
Hi and welcome !
Growing weekly is nice to read ! Show us some of them, please.
 
 

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