Picked Up (5) 1996 Power Mac's For Free

They were all left out in the rain along with a few other items and a large file cabinet. Interested to see if they have a removable processor or not. Will find out tonight after some lawn work. Anybody have any eperience with these?



Apple Power Macintosh 9500 | Mel's Macintosh Universe

CPU Type:
PPC604 (Built-in FPU)

It says it's built in in that link you provided with your original post.

The 9500's are very nice PCI Powermacs with 604 CPUs (they are on a removable card). Only the 9500 and 9600 came with 6 PCI slots so collectors tend to like them.

I might be interested in some parts if they havn't been gutted yet. 9500's have very brittle plastics.

The motherboards are really nice, They have at least 8 large IC chips on the back of the motherboard with all the normal things found on the front. It wouldn't suprise me if a buyer would pay more for them as I would think the pm recovery is really nice. I'm saving all motherboards like these and ones that have processors built into the board to see how much I can get per pound. I have about 15 of them right now.

Originally Posted by unknownk

The 9500's are very nice PCI Powermacs with 604 CPUs (they are on a removable card). Only the 9500 and 9600 came with 6 PCI slots so collectors tend to like them.

I might be interested in some parts if they havn't been gutted yet. 9500's have very brittle plastics.

I've plugged up quite a few of them so far and none power on. Like i said, they were left out in the rain for a couple of weeks.

Any of them full of RAM or have any interesting add-on cards? Also are the CDROM bezels intact (they tend to break off, I could use a couple)?

Originally Posted by unknownk

Any of them full of RAM or have any interesting add-on cards? Also are the CDROM bezels intact (they tend to break off, I could use a couple)?

Quite a few old memory sticks 64mb, etc. I will check on some of the other parts when my family and I get back from our short vacation this Thursday (we leave early Monday morning). It seems like as soon as I book our vacation, the phone calls start pouring in for computers and lawn care, but, I don't want my boys to grow up not knowing what the beach looks like

Have a nice vacation I hope the boys have fun.