Here we've got a very rare piece of hardware. Back in the ole internet heyday of 1999, there was a company called Micro Conversions that made graphics cards for Macs. Among its product line up was a very interesting piece of hardware for the original Rev.A/B iMacs (bondi colored). It was a full blown 8MB VooDoo2 graphics card. For those of you who are wondering how in the hell a graphics card could ever fit into something as crampt as one of the early iMacs, let me tell you about a spiffy fact about the older iMacs.
Underneath the motherboard, there is a long PCI-esque slot called the Mezzanine slot. This was put there by Apple because they thought they could add something like a DVD decoder card when it was feasible to add a DVD-ROM to the iMac. Well, times changed, and they went with the software decoder method later on. But for those hundreds of thousands of iMacs that did ship with the slot, it was a real treasure. As soon as companies figured out that it was nothing but a miniaturized PCI slot, they went nuts building stuff like SCSI cards, TV Tuners, graphics cards, and other such madness.
In the end, Apple took out the slot in Rev.C and later models, and that pretty much killed the niche industry that had grown from the desire to put that slot to use.
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What you see above is exactly what you will get if you decide to purchase the card. I will make it clear now that I do not have any idea where my original driver disk is, but if I find it I'll throw it in. However, if I do not end up finding it, drivers can be had
here.
Price is $50/shipped. Remember, these are pretty hard to find, and if nothing else, you are purchasing a piece of Mac gaming history.
Now, about the ergonomic keyboard. This keyboard is an Adesso Ergonomic keyboard that was purchased about a year ago, and was used regularly by my mother on her iMac (the same one which had the voodoo card.) The keyboard works fine, and is still in rather very good condition. On the top row of the keyboard, you will see a row of media keys that are specific to features back in OS 9. Unfortunately, the company that made this keyboard never bothered to write OS X drivers, so while the media keys are useless, the keyboard itself is still totally functional.
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Upon a quick google search, the keyboard seems to go for $50-$75. And, seeing as this is a used keyboard, I shall sell it for $30/shipped.
Questions? Comments? Post away!
This really is the coolest thing I've ever seen in the classifieds here at MacNN, though.
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