I still have a thing for vintage macs but the build quality was never good much like how it is now (expensive cancer), would have kept the G5 system but look into recapping the one you got as these systems will be hard to replace as the years tick by and they end up being semi rare. Intel Macs are cancer board level wise though the old ones are much easier to fix than anything current because the schematics for the boards are difficult to find. Lots of little things going bad on the boards and poor chip quality at times is costing shops a lot of money. I refuse to fix them along with all the modern ultra thin hot plates so I am not in the business anymore. I much prefer the older Dells and Thinkpads as they are easy to service like swapping parts and how there are only a couple of screw sizes unlike Apple where they might have two or three dozen screw sizes in one machine (some exaggeration but you get the point).

Would it be so terrible to mention Macs in your subject line?

xjas wrote:

Never found an HDI45->VGA adapter.

To be clear, an HDI-45 to DB15 adapter plus a DB15 to VGA adapter would work fine in such an instance. I would doubt that an integrated HDI45 to VGA adapter even exists.

I have stacks of old 68k and PPC macs from the 68000 SE's to the PCIE Model G5's. Build quality is ok for the most part outside of some plastic that ages badly and leaking caps (which I had to replace, but same thing on the PC side).

Apple did build some shitty laptops for a while relying too much on plastic to metal hinges that fail with age.

Fixing your collection is part of collecting.

6100 machines can also use a PDS video card (with angle adapter) that uses the standard Apple video output (which also needs an adapter for VGA). Cheaper and easier to find. I have that HDI45 adapter and it wasn't that expensive or hard to find.

^^ I actually (still) have the PDS video card (it has s-video in & out too.) To be honest, the 6100 was hosed, I parted it out to save the 7200 which was in way better shape. And then I sold that.

I have no interest in "collecting" a bunch of machines I'll never use, I kept the two most interesting ones (and the one working one 😜) and the rest went to good homes. If I manage to get the G4 Cube & the LC630 back to 100% I'll have a nice little range of systems that covers everything I might want to do with them. (Ideally I'd run system 7 on the LC630, OS9+Tiger on the Cube & the remaining G5 is already running Leopard.)

I'd rather concentrate on a few machines than own one broken one of each & have an endless queue of unfinished projects.

Jorpho wrote:

To be clear, an HDI-45 to DB15 adapter plus a DB15 to VGA adapter would work fine in such an instance. I would doubt that an integrated HDI45 to VGA adapter even exists.

That was what I meant by "HDI45->VGA" (standard DB15 being a VGA-ish signal itself.) I didn't feel the need to elaborate on the whole thing in a oneliner.