No, I haven't died...

[Ian C.]

It's been quite a long time since I last visited the RMC website...  So yeah, joined the RMC website around 2008 or so then lost interest in it about a year after, until recently, when I found it again!  I'm surprised to see not a whole lot has changed here.

Now to some updates about my Mac collection...  Since I was last here I've either junked or sold some of my Macs because they stopped working...

• My Performa 630CD died a while back, got some parts off of it, then junked it
• My PowerMac 8100 - this was the one that wouldn't boot up, wound up junking it (in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have cause there was a whole bunch of parts I wanted to keep off that)
• I sold my Powerbook 160 on eBay recently
• my LC II died (I still have it though)
• my MacBook had some kind of crazy power issue and stopped working right (still have it and the original box)

Also I've been trying to sell a few of my other Macs on eBay (gotta make some money since my dad - a musician - bought a $700 synthesizer recently...)

• I'm thinking about selling my Powerbook 1400cs/117 (perfectly working, still have the original box and some other stuff for it)
• Been trying to sell one of my 165c's...  eventually it got a cracked screen and I can't find another screen for it anywhere so onto eBay it goes!  I've got three of these, one's just a mobo (not sure where it is), this one, and one that's way better (this one)
• May sell my PowerMac 5260/100 too - used the HD from it in another vintage computer project and the CD drive's broken...  Still works though.
• Eventually gonna sell my PowerBook 140 too (screen issues, may try to hunt down another screen for it since they're more common on eBay than the 165c's)

Most of my other Macs - my two SE's, my PB170, my "good" PB165c, my grape G3 iMac - are perfectly working.  Sadly, my SE/30's mobo may be failing (it's got this particular problem)  As for my Color Classic, hopefully I can find an LC575 mobo cheap enough to Mystify it...

And I got a couple new members of the fleet...  First is a snow iMac G3/500MHz I found at a yard sale.  Paid $40 for it - not bad, especially since I upgraded the hard drive to max capacity.  All it needs now is a new clock battery (ordered one off eBay yesterday)...

Next is perhaps the best trash find ever... a complete Apple IIgs, 1988 ROM 01 model, found in the dump...  Still works!  Don't have it set up at the moment for one major reason:  there's not a whole lot of room in my house to set everything up.  Yeah, my house is a mess; hopefully I'll get everything cleaned up someday...

So that was a 2 or 3 year-late status update, hopefully everybody where I live had a good 4th of July...

~Ian

[James]

Thanks for the update and welcome back!  That's crazy finding a working IIgs in the trash -- what a find!

[Ian C.]

Just want to add something:  I also wound up junking my PowerBook 5300cs cause it's just horrible - if my memory serves me here the AC adaptor was a bit flaky and parts of the display bezels were literally falling apart...