All,
Still trying to find a home for this system (re-post but with more information, testing)
For the visually oriented, here are pictures showing the machine running:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11j__mCYOFuBAil58hAdhmSK5GMaqmcUL?us…
Things in the pictures but NOT included in the giveaway are:
1) ADB cable (Mini-DIN4) (the one in the photos was borrowed from another system for
testing)
2) ?square? ADB mouse (also borrowed)
3) Power strip
You get everything else.
Mac Performa 6214CD, PowerPC CPU, 3.5? floppy and CD drive on front face
Apple Extended Keyboard II (NO ADB CABLE)
Apple Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (round - not working)
Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display (matching, includes cable)
APS external SCSI hard drive enclosure and cable (Centronix on the hard drive end, DB-25
on the Mac end)
Epson Stylus Color 740 ink-jet printer with a spare (unopened) cartridge
UMAX Astra 1220S flat-bed SCSI scanner.
ZIP drive with SCSI interface
Cables
Pile of accompanying software including at least:
DeltaGraph
Now Up-To-Date and Contact
Sad Macs, Bombs and disasters
Retrospect Backup
Astra Scanner Driver
All Free to a Good Home.
You want this if:
a) you can afford shipping or pickup from San Antonio, TX, 78254, and
b) 15 years after ?Take this job and shove it? came out you finally acted on it, quit your
job and set up your own home office and accounting business, and now you want to relive
your glory days.
All items tested May 23, 2020. Everything worked, with the following exceptions:
1) The round ADB mouse included does not work. The keyboard does work and the square ADB
mouse worked when plugged into it, so the fault is probably in the round mouse.
2) The printer doesn?t move any ink to the page. The ink is dried out, so I?m not at all
surprised. I expect it to work with new cartridges, but did not test that. There is an
unopened replacement cartridge included, so you can test at least the black printing if
you open that.
Replacement cartridges available at:
https://www.compandsave.com/Epson_Stylus_Color_740_Ink_Cartridges_s/1396.htm under $4
each.
Everything else about the printer seems to work. I hooked up to it via USB using my
MacBook and software from
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net and it responds as expected
for an ink-jet with dried-up ink but otherwise functional.
3) I have no ZIP cartridge to test the ZIP drive. It is recognized on the SCSI bus as a
removable-media drive, power light comes on, etc, but I don?t know that it reads or
writes.
4) The Mac OS 8.5 on the drive will not allow me to set the year to 2020.
5) Backup battery is dead, so the unit won?t remember dates between shutdown and startup
again.
5) The door to the monitor?s controls is broken, and just taped back into place.
Things that do work include the floppy drive, the CD drive (plays audio CDs), all other
aspects of the computer itself and the external drive, the keyboard, and the monitor.
Driver software and media for scanner and printer are included. The scanner works, I
scanned an image with it and it came up clear. The glass could use cleaning, though.
Please, please, please take this as a group, I really don?t want to split it up. Shipping
will be challenging; if you are out of driving range but want it, contact me and we can
talk. If you are in driving range and want it, let me know and we can meet half-way. Not
looking to make any money, I just don?t want to throw it away and don?t want to lose money
giving it away.
- Mark
210-522-6025 office
210-379-4635 cell