It took a hot second to find the reverse polarity adapter for my universal power supply and then some time slowly winding back the old ribbon - but that Brother EP-20 I picked up the other week works! It's really faint because the ribbon is old and used.
Flea market Friday again - no pickups today, but saw some things: an iMac G4 1.25Ghz/256mb RAM/80gb HDD for $20 and this giant iMac (not sure specs or price) - this had to be a 30" screen or more. You can kind of see scale from the other beside it. And a neat Sharp VL-C73, little rough.
Tried a different flea market today. Hunted the wire bins in hopes of finding a power brick for the IBM, no luck though long shot. Did pick up a few games - two Coleco games for $5 that I didn’t have and a Coco game for $5 (I think I didn’t have it )
Frustratingly, I am going to have to find and buy the charger - this thing uses a 230w power brick with a specific barrel jack (i.e., none of the tips in my universal kit fit it). I really want to see this thing work!
Got a couple laptops at the flea today - I had to get this beast of a IBM w701ds for $10. The picture doesn’t do justice to the size - I’ll get more when I test it. Sadly no power supply, but I think my universal will work. Stay tuned!
I did pick up this Toshiba 2100CDS for $5, overall seemed in good shape, the mouse buttons are gummy though. The Toshibas of this era seem to make good portable 95/98 gaming PCs. For $3, I took this Brother EP-20 word processor in excellent shape. It should be fun to tinker with
It's Flea Market Friday on the 4th of July! The market was hopping and weather was pleasant. Saw this bin with some ATI (PCI-E) graphics cards and 3D builder software, the latter was tempting but didn't ask prices. Seems like some (low) quality odd-ware there...
The 2.8ghz i5 was having issues with the hdd, swapped in a SSD and it is lots happier. Bad news is, the i5 is a 2 core. It’ll be fine for a single Ubuntu server, but not what I was hoping.
I did pick up these two Mac Minis - one is a late 2014 i5 1.4GHz / 4 gb RAM and the other is a 2.8 GHz i5 / 8 gb RAM. Got the pair for $45. In hindsight, meh because the RAM is soldered on. Plan is to use in home lab stuff I’ve been working on, still can just less ideal.
Hot day at the flea, even in the morning. Saw a few things and a pickup. One table had a bunch of Compute and Antic magazines for $2 each and saw most of a G5 machine. IIRC, seller quoted $70 but it did have an extra card in it (FireWire card I think). Still way too much imho.
