Well, I got a lot of stuff from the neighbors with all the vintage bitten fruit equipment that I got my Power Mac 6500 and iBook G4 from, since they were moving out and knew I'd put it to good use. Here's the short list:
-Macintosh IIcx (Macintosh Display Card 4*8, uncertain amount of RAM except that all eight SIMM slots are filled and there's two more unused SIMMs)
-AppleColor 13" monitor
-Apple Extended Keyboard II
-quad-speed external SCSI CD-ROM
-Caere Typist SCSI text scanner
-Connectix webcam (the orb-shaped kind that Logitech later bought 'em out for)
-Apple StyleWriter
-bins full of floppy disks and software, more than I can count
-iMac G3 (indigo 350 MHz, 256 + 64 MB SDRAM, noisy 7 GB Quantum Fireball HDD)
-Apple Pro Keyboard
-Marantz TA-70 integrated receiver + SP-1250 speakers with replaced woofers
So, yeah, whole lot of stuff for the awesome price of FREE! But not everything's smooth going...
-The IIcx is dead as a doornail, even after swapping out the PRAM battery. Time to order some capacitors and break out the soldering iron, if I had to guess.
-Said box full of floppy disks has *tons* of unreadable disks, according to the 6500 and its floppy drive. I'm pretty sure it's a known good drive too, because I've used floppies to shuttle over small driver files to it for installation before I got a compatible Ethernet card and could just FTP to my heart's content.
-The iMac generally works, but one of the speakers sounds kinda off in testing, and the CD drive refuses to eject properly, albeit reading the one disc that is inserted just fine. I guess it wants the user to play The Sims... FOREVER!
-The IIcx, AppleColor monitor and Extended II all need retr0brite direly! They all look more yellow than beige at this point...
-The IIcx is also about as egregiously dusty inside as the 6500 was when I got it, and that Pro Keyboard is so filthy I had to disassemble it for cleaning on principle.
-The StyleWriter still seems to work once I get the correct drivers (StyleWriter II 1.2 seems to suffice, but Mac OS 9 doesn't include it by default), except pages come out blank because the cartridge is, predictably, out of ink. I might be able to refill it, but I seem to have lost the ink bottles for this refill kit we've kept around for years and years...
The good news, at least, is that I've verified that every key on the Extended II works fine, and the AppleColor monitor runs just fine off the 6500. 640x480@67Hz is a bit limiting, but for a little Trinitron, it looks nice and doesn't lose its focus like the Multiple Scan 15AV I got with the 6500 (which went to a recycler due to the focus problem and speakers not working, possibly a dead internal amp).
So yeah, I've got a lot of work to do here, and hopefully once everything's sorted out, I can find good new homes for all this vintage Apple stuff. Alas, it's too much for me to actually keep for very long; with all the original boxes included, I'm getting too many wasted space complaints.