700mhz emac

[ratdude747]

some may know i used to have a powermac g4 sawtooth.

It was traded away today

my buddy @ school wanted it sooo bad (he's a 90's computer geek)... the zip 100 drive was making him drool... not to mention it has no built in monitor and will run morph OS (he also is an amiga geek). his dream machine.

his tradebait: a 700mhz emac. a broken one. the optical drive and the hard drive were beyond hosed. he bough a used hard drive and some random optical but was too chicken to open up a CRT unit.

pre repair specs:
emac g4 700mhz
512mb sdram pc133 (one stick)
40gb maxtor hard drive (dead)
sony cdrw drive (dead)
mac os 9.2 (gone)
no modem or airport card

anyway, I had to go about fixing it. the first snag was that the bottom center shell screw stripped the head on me, so i had to get modernly medieval on it with a dremel cutter... i took the surrounding square of plastic out... removed the flash and that problem solved for good.

i got in, stayed far away from the anode wire (it had set unplugged for 2 months so it was likely okay anyway), and popped out the logic board.

i stole the hard drive out of the old traded away mac (my friend was going to use the one he bought) and popped it in the logic board (already had os 10.4 on it).

for the opticals, i happened to have a toshiba dvd burner in the spare stack. my research said that for an emac, that drive was better functioning than the stock drives... no hacking required. it went in as well.

cleaned out the nasty black dust caking the unit... and i reassembled it. while i was at it, i tossed in another 512mb pc133 module...

the power swith was a PITA! what dummy designed that...

it fired up perfectly... yay!

the post-repair specs:
emac g4 700mhz
1gb sdram pc133
80gb 7200rpm seagate hard drive
toshiba dvd burner (it boots fine, very compatible)
mac os 10.4
still no airport card

i plan to use it as a bench computer for recording soldering videos and general use)

my questions are:

1. was that a good trade (old unit was a PM g4 sawtooth 450mhz with dvd-rom and zip100; 512mb ram)?

2. anybody have a 11mb/s airport card? i would like to get it wireless...

ps- it had the stock power cord, which i gave to my imac g5, as the standard AC cord i was using fell out every time i bumped... the new cord fixes that... and the emac is fine with a standard cable.

edit- the friend is a member around here as well, but i forgot his username...

[stevo1210]

Re: 700mhz emac

1. Yes

2. Try eBay for that airport card.

[toastygoodness]

Re: 700mhz emac

agree with stevo. nice trade and try ebay. perhaps someone on applenova or an apple site somewhere will have it too if you look on their forums.

if you use it as a bench pc, make sure its pressed against the wall.... yeah.

[NxB]

Re: 700mhz emac

400mhz for 700, good deal.

[ratdude747]

Re: 700mhz emac

will check ebay then...

[seanc]

Re: 700mhz emac

Back in the day, Orinoco silver cards were reported to work as, I believe they use the same chips as Airport cards. You can sometimes find these in older wireless routers if you have any hanging around.

Otherwise, 802.11b Airport cards are now cheap. I remember when they used to sell for £100.

I agree, the eMac is the next best thing next to the iMac... and that's a good point. I'd been hanging onto the iMac due to it being an AIO and good for the bench. I'll just borrow the eMac from work, no-one ever uses it.

[ratdude747]

Re: 700mhz emac

maybe i should re-phrase somehthing: i still have my imac g5. it is too special to trade/sell...

what was traded was a powermac g4 sawtooth. the guy liked how it had a zip100 drive in it... and was to open the emac, so it was a win-win for us.

[seanc]

Re: 700mhz emac

Oh I know the history of your G5 ratdude and wasn't suggesting you sell it, I just realised what I can replace mine with, since I'd rather it was being put to better use.

Decent trade for the PM G4 though.
I forsee a black market in zip 100 drives in your future.