So this comes into my shop today....

[HCHTech]

Wanted the data copied off to a flash drive. I've never seen one of these other than in a magazine. I think they only sold about 6 of them! It still runs, OS 9.2.

 

[Altster]

Well this should keep you busy for a while, then.

 

[altrenda]

Nice to see what $2000 bought in 2000, without the monitor.
Kind of collectors items now, does he have the clear Harmon Kardon speakers as well?

 

[Markverhyden]

That brings back memories. A friend from when I worked at CompUSA got a regional job with Apple around when that was launched. They had a problem with the fit and finish of the plastic housing which caused the machine to randomly reboot. He said they delivered 3 pallets of replacement housings for him to use for big customers.

On the data part. Those came with PATA drives. Not sure about the latest OS X but I seem to remember that 10.6.8 would read pre-OS X OS formatted drives. So you could use a USB PATA adapter.

 

[FremontPC]

On the data part. Those came with PATA drives. Not sure about the latest OS X but I seem to remember that 10.6.8 would read pre-OS X OS formatted drives. So you could use a USB PATA adapter.

Just make sure you get it indexed right...

 

[HCHTech]

This must be my week for ancient Macs..... Someone brought in an eMac, circa 2005 on Saturday. "It won't boot, can you get the data?"

This poor misguided fellow was running his business on a 10 year old educational computer he got from who-knows-where. Wow. = just wow.

Never took one of these apart before, boy are the hard drives buried in there! I exposed it enough to hook up a USB adapter - turns out the drive isn't even spinning. This will be a fun phone call today. I hope he declines sent-out data recovery, I think it would take me an hour to get the damned thing out of there.

BTW, the cube from the beginning of this post fired right up into the OS. I just copied the data to his flash drive. Simplest recovery ever!

 

[Choppie]

This must be my week for ancient Macs..... Someone brought in an eMac, circa 2005 on Saturday. "It won't boot, can you get the data?"

This poor misguided fellow was running his business on a 10 year old educational computer he got from who-knows-where. Wow. = just wow.

Never took one of these apart before, boy are the hard drives buried in there! I exposed it enough to hook up a USB adapter - turns out the drive isn't even spinning. This will be a fun phone call today. I hope he declines sent-out data recovery, I think it would take me an hour to get the damned thing out of there.

BTW, the cube from the beginning of this post fired right up into the OS. I just copied the data to his flash drive. Simplest recovery ever!

I LOVE these old computers! I have two old iMac the all i one clear bubble kind, one blue and one green. Both work.