[danamania]

A few weeks ago I opened up a 68020 I had lying around. 2 minutes over a hot gas stove and the soldered top popped off with the silicon underneath.

http://www.danamania.com/gallery/beige/abs

http://www.danamania.com/gallery/beige/abr

Looks kinda nifty so I thought I'd share =). The mask is even quite recognisable as the 68020's silicon from a Motorola pic

http://www.danamania.com/gallery/beige/abt

dana

[f1000]

Mount it in a wooden plaque with a magnifying lens over it. It'd make a nice conversation piece.

[cdhostage]

Cool. Another conversation piece - either get one of those spinning levitating magnet setups or make your own, and stick this to the top of the floater. Before spinning it, of course.

[Lateralus]

Wow.

That really is quite amazing to see. Thank you for posting it.

I might try something similar. I have a few spare '040s around.

[Lateralus]

One more thing...

I was just looking through the other pictures of your machines on your site and I noticed how astonishingly clean they all look. The 6100 in particular looks like it was just pulled out of the box!

How do you get them to look so new? I managed to make my LC III look brand new but it ended up becoming a 2-day project restoring it that involved fully dismantling it, putting the plastics in a bathtub, and going at the parts with light wipes of Windex and detailing with q-tips.

[danamania]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
One more thing...

I was just looking through the other pictures of your machines on your site and I noticed how astonishingly clean they all look. The 6100 in particular looks like it was just pulled out of the box!

How do you get them to look so new? I managed to make my LC III look brand new but it ended up becoming a 2-day project restoring it that involved fully dismantling it, putting the plastics in a bathtub, and going at the parts with light wipes of Windex and detailing with q-tips.

Two things - one is cleaning just like you mentioned, fully dismantling things, and then soaking them in oxygen bleach (we have Napisan in australia - I don't know what the rest of the world uses. it's just a little more convenient than chlorine bleach, but does the same thing!) and drying/reassembling. I've done pretty much all my macs like that. It's just one of those comforting things, spending a few mindless hours cleaning things inside & out. If they're not too dirty, plain old Mr.Sheen furniture polish removes most gunk.

The second is trick photography =). Photos taken with a flash always seem to show things up the absolute worst. Yellowed plastic comes up browner, and grime/reflections show up even more than they do IRL. Using no flash, a tripod, and a longer exposure brings up an image that's the opposite of using a flash - it'll look a bit cleaner than IRL. After that I photoshop out any small dust flecks and pop the images online.

As an example of the flash vs non-flash thing, http://www.danamania.com/temp/newmac.jpg is my Quadra 840av as it came to me.

http://www.danamania.com/temp/newmacclean.jpg is the same machine around an hour later, after a wipe down with furniture polish and without using the flash.

dana
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[Partisan01]

Originally posted by danamania:

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Dana,

I really enjoy your site. I just got a Quadra 660 myself and have been playing with Net/OpenBSD on it. I saw on your site you mention you were using a Quadra as a webserver. What's the performance like? I'm thinking in terms of a few people an hour, serving some pictures, nothing to large though. So far the performance seems acceptable, but I havn't run it through real life tests. When I talk about acceptable performace my measure is my main desktop machine a B&W 350mhz. Thanks.

nt

[Lateralus]

I love your site too!

The Quadra 605 is a machine I had never payed attention to before. I don't even recall the case design. But that thing is gorgeous... I thought the LC/II/III and IIsi were as good as it got when it came to pizza-box Macs, but the 605 is VERY aesthetically pleasing!

I must have one.

[danamania]

Originally posted by Partisan01:
Dana,

I really enjoy your site. I just got a Quadra 660 myself and have been playing with Net/OpenBSD on it. I saw on your site you mention you were using a Quadra as a webserver. What's the performance like? I'm thinking in terms of a few people an hour, serving some pictures, nothing to large though. So far the performance seems acceptable, but I havn't run it through real life tests. When I talk about acceptable performace my measure is my main desktop machine a B&W 350mhz. Thanks.

nt

I used to use a Q605 as a server (I really must update those pages to reflect the changes - it's now a Debian Linux 6100/66!) but the 605 ran REALLY well on static pages. It survived a couple of busy visits from slashdot posts, handling a few GB a day on times like that. My outbound connection was the limit there, and for those static pages the 605 handled everything I threw at it.

As soon as I started using Gallery (it's the package that generates http://www.danamania.com/gallery ) it all changed. It's PHP, a bit more processor intensive, and made things sluggish with one user on, and horrid with 2 or more. Usually I have 150-300 people visiting each day, so there's enough overlap between visitors to see multiple people browsing at once.

If you stick to static html pages and images, the Q660 will do just fine .

dana
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http://www.danamania.com/

[rag on a muffin]

i saw one of those in a science museum, but never in that kinda detail. very nice!

[bradoesch]

I've got about 18 or so old Macs, and after seeing your web site, I feel I should clean them up and take some nice pictures!

[l008com]

Originally posted by Partisan01:
...a B&W 350mhz...

:-D thats what i use for a server, and i take a few hundred hits an hour. And it is nearly idle all day long. Sometimes in the middle of the day, my load averages will be 0.00 0.00 0.00 :-)