Shipping to USA is flat rate $122.50, but if you are in California,
please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping
to $71.25 for is only one (1) of these in stock as I start this.(And for future reference to myself and others, I'm pretty sure I don't
have any more 8500s, this was a pretty rare model, as I've only probably
had several of these, ever, over the last 25 years I've had 4 8100s and
4 Quadra 950s for every one 8500. I didn't even know I had this 8500
until this stash of Macs in the flight case was cracked open last year.
I'm just about sure this is the last of the 8500 towers in Synhouse *#*^#$@*#$&)^%@*!The Synhouse Macintosh B O M B is going off!18 Apple machines sealed in an airtight flight case for 18 years has
just been cracked open this year after being located in the far back of
the warehouse for a very, very quick move of 20,000+ pounds of gear,
nearly all of it flight cased in HUGE flight cases. This is massive Mac
stock, stacked over my head and it's two stacks of it, and it was all
sealed up and all of it or nearly all of it will be offered on , one
at a time.This is a MASSIVE collection of 17 Power Macintosh computers and one
Apple Scanner A9M0337.Some background and what led up to this massive stock being time
capsuled for two decades:I probably have or at various times have had more Macintosh computers
than anyone. This includes probably 20 IIfx in stock at one time (I've
had more IIfx systems than anyone and I may be the last working person
in the world who supports them professionally, as used for the music
apps of my clients, and I stupidly threw away 10-15 IIfx logic boards in
the early 2000s because they didn't work and people weren't yet talking
about the garbage fake leaky caps Apple used causing most of those logic
board failures, they could have used the common industry standard
Panasonic caps but instead used fake Panasonic caps and all my Classic,
etc. died because of it), and presently these 17 Power Macs to be
offered are maybe a third or slightly less of the Power Macs I still
have in stock at Synhouse (one at home, two in the garage, two in one
storage, several just like them in another storage, before even getting
to the several stacks of them (mostly Power Macs like 7500 and G3
desktops) on the main pallet rack in back I can't even get to, these are
just what I've glimpsed in the last few days of moving around from place
to place), plus there are G4 graphite towers/mirror door towers stacked
over my head about three times over, several Quadra/Centris NuBus Macs,
a good dozen all-in-ones still in stock here, some little 512K or
whatever those are (the no hard drive type), about 15 original Apple
CRTs (this is what takes up 2/3rds of the Mac pallet rack, neatly
stacked between cardboard pads) plus 10-20 far better high end CRTs
(Sony, Mitsubishi, etc.) for them, several of those crap Apple Cinema or
Studio LCDs with the idiot ADC connection, and box after box after box
of PSUs, logic boards, keyboards, mice, floppy drives, CD drives, IDE
and SCSI hard drives, all of it, there's loads.I have always had to provide these to my clients (music clients for a
special music system that usually uses one Mac with special software as
a host), but when was hot 2001-2004 I was selling a lot of Macs on
just because there were too many coming in, I was sometimes getting
2-3 pallets of Macs and original Apple CRTs, something like 15-25
computers in a single day, and could only keep so many of them, and I
liked doing a lot of shipping, it made the mail order business more
efficient. But really died hard 2003-2004 for this kind of stuff,
just too many sellers with average selling prices falling, and I moved
away from and and almost completely stopped purchasing Macs in huge
shipments by 2005 or so. I have gotten in another 50 Macs since then,
but that's just one or a few at a time from the music studios that
Synhouse is buying out on a regular basis.The basic work procedure for me back in 2002-2004 (when the most Macs
came in) was just to check them with power very quickly, with varying
levels of completeness. Considering my suppliers were good and these
weren't old computers (i.e. getting late 1998 G3 computers in 2002, plus
some various Power Macs going back to 1994 or so, with the 7100 and
7200/7300/7500, etc.), the usual results were this: Over 95% of them, or
every single one in some shipments, would power on immediately, and boot
up immediately (and those that didn't and had the flashing disk icon
showing needed to have the RAM sticks or hard drive cables
removed/reseated, and possibly the crap Quantum stiction drive pulled
out for a little twist in the hand to free it up), and I'd see the
computer was working and usually (2/3rds of the time at least) the
floppy drive was not working, and the CD working 95% of the time. At
that point, unfortunately, I'd just presumed it was good and found it
was, and I wouldn't even mark it as such at all, I'd just put it in
stock without any markings, either short term or long term, and if short
term and to be sold on , I'd soon pull it out and test it again,
that time giving it a major test, making note of all the details like
RAM and OS, then listing it. They would only be marked with a tape tag
with writing if they were bad, which was usually because a hard drive
had been removed, once in a while it was a bad PSU or logic board. Later
on I got smarter and would write all that down the first time I looked
at it, good or bad, and stick it on the side, but not then, I only noted
it if it was bad.Most Macs came in here in 2002, probably, plus nearly that amount in
2003-2004 combined, and 90% of them were sold, parted out and sold, or
good parts sold and the rest recycled if bad. But there were always a
lot of Macs sitting around that just came in, and once being tested out,
I had to put them somewhere.In 2004 one of Janet Jackson's Synclaviers (the biggest electronic music
systems of all time already, but either of these two were bigger than
any others out there, both doublewide racks and both over my head, all
standard doublewide systems were maybe as tall as eye level, not
overhead) had been stripped out and I had the empty case, big enough for
two people to stand inside, so without any forethought or organization
or sorting, I just put 18 Apple machines in there (the ones you see in
the group photo in the gallery, though a few are on the back side out of
sight) with some cardboard padding, and sealed it up with the front and
rear lids on it, aluminum track to aluminum track, foam to foam, these
are AIRTIGHT cases for moving a $500,000 music system, that was in the
very back dryest part of the warehouse, and I didn't take anything out
of it for 18 years until 2022.As such, none of these has been exposed to any light, dust, or even AIR
for 18 years.None of these Macs were plugged in for 18 years, and many of them were
stock sitting here from 2002 or even 2001 and then I wasn't using these,
just checking them usually the week they first came in, so most of these
were probably tested good in 2002 and stacked here for two years before
going into this huge sealed airtight flight case.With no light and no air for 18 years, this has left these Apple
computers with a very clean surface with as little oxidation as you
could possibly find nowadays. No one else has this but Synhouse, 18
Apple machines sealed airtight for 18 years. Any dirt, dust, scratches,
writing, stickers, yellowing from office lights or sunlight, etc., was
all there in 2002 and there has been none of that and NO wear and NO
hours on ANY of these Apple computers in 18+ years. No one else on
has that. No one.This collection has (1) 7200/75, (7) 7300/180, (1) 7300/200, (1)
8100/80AV, (1) 8500/150 w/180mhz 604e upgrade, (5) G3 desktop, (1)
Server G3 266mhz M4405, and one Apple Scanner A9M0337.This is the Synhouse Macintosh B O M B going off sale in this listing is the Power Macintosh named in the titleUNUSED FOR 20 YEARS! Apple Power Macintosh 8500/150 w/185mhz 604e Processormanufactured 11/18/96No box, instructions/user manuals, display, keyboard, mouse, or
accessories are included. Just what is shown is included. Some of the
photos may be actual Apple CRT display screenshots to show it working,
OS, resources, etc., this is done on one of mine for testing purposes
(usually my favorite, the Apple 15AV), but no Apple CRT display is
included in this moving to sell certain things I now know I won't need for my
continuing business and while looking for them in the new warehouse
space opened 2/2021, I have found loads of items I should sell that I
forgot I had, like these Power Macs. Good move on my part, these are
valuable now and mine are the best on , absolutely sealed airtight
in a padded flight case for decades, relatively cool and completely dry,
no mold, mildew, or even oxidation on these. No soggy soft see my other listings for the other Power Macs from this sealed
case that I have listed or will be listing as soon as am bringing these home one at a time, as time permits, to photograph
and test for , and they will be put right back in the same airtight
case, each one individually plastic wrapped or bagged once cleaned up
and I don't want any marks or fingerprints getting on them, and there
they will stay in the back of the warehouse for the duration of the
listing (I will not sell these cheaply), and in the new much larger
place I flipped this 500 pound case around so I can get the front cover
off and I'll be easily able to get in and out of this case as needed,
unlike the last 18 years when it had 1,000 pounds stacked on top of it
and 20,000 pounds stacked in front of it blocking all access to If you would like to buy this for $50 less without the hard drive,
please send me a message BEFORE buying it and tell me, and I'll change
the listing and lower the price. A lot of people are pulling those hard
drives out for SCSI2SD, but I still use them professionally in large
numbers, I need is an Apple Power Macintosh 8500/150 tower model M3409 that has
been upgraded with the PowerPC 604e processor running at 185mhz and 80mb
RAM (I have separate 30-pin, 72-pin, and 84-pin Mac RAM in stock if
someone wants me to list it here on ).This is a high end Apple computer from 1996. There's a lot of wrong
information about these online, like that it's from 1995 which makes no
sense they almost didn't make any model that long and this was made late
November 1996, or that it was discontinued 9/19/1996, again obviously
dumb because this was made late November 1996, it's marked on the back
as you can see in the photos.This has an Apple factory IBM 320mb SCSI hard drive (some IBMs are
terrible, but if they are ones that still work, and most do, they are a
THOUSAND times better than the stiction trash from Quantum, my personal
7200/75 that I use professionally, daily, sometimes running all day and
night, has NEVER failed to start up in the 13 years it's been on the
floor since I finally got out of the IIFX habit) with an install (that I
did sometime between 2002 and 2004, not now, I did hundreds of those
just to get client data off the computers in stock) of Apple OS 8.5.1.
This hard drive works well and is VERY quiet. The hard drive in this
looks mint condition, like brand new, as if it were never unmounted. See
the photos, it's beautiful.It also has a 1.4mb floppy drive. I haven't tested the floppy drive and
won't (in my experience with testing hundreds of Macs, the floppy drives
already didn't work, at least not the first time, when they were only
4-8 years old, I frequently had to make systems with working floppy
drives for my clients because the special music program software install
was from floppy disk only, and I would end up spending half a day or two
half days pulling one or two boxes of floppy drives from the warehouse,
testing them, cleaning them, retesting them, etc. to find a good one,
but I eventually made a special setup installation CD to get around that
so I rarely have to deal with Mac floppy drives the last ten years), so
assume the floppy doesn't work and won't unless you spend time testing
it, exercising it, and trying it out again, or replacing it to do all
that again. These 1990s Apple floppy drives are unconscionably bad; A
Mitsumi D359MD3 1.44mb floppy drive that I could get from my computer
supplier for $8.21 (2002 price) was a better floppy drive than any 1.4mb
3.5" floppy drive Apple ever used, any of which would surely be $80-$200
if you had to buy another one, and if you used it, then you surely would.This has an Apple factory AppleCD 8X SCSI CD-ROM that DOES NOT WORK. I
don't know what is wrong, it, like all the hard drives/CD drives in this
whole Mac bomb collection, was tested and marked after coming in and
before going in the case for 18 years. This shows up in Apple System
Profiler, but says it has no disk inserted whether it does or not, and
an inserted disk does not appear on the desktop or start the CD player.This is curious; These are excellent drives. Out of HUNDREDS of
PowerMacs I've had (all 2002-2004 or so, all left are left over from
then), I've only tossed about five AppleCDs of all models combined,
tops. Now I've just found THREE bad ones in the last 24 hours! Including
one I just listed a few weeks ago as PERFECT because I not only tested
it then, I tested it in 2009 and also in 2002-2004, now it died, just
like this one. Is this like those garbage fake caps Apple used in EVERY
computer 1991-1995 or so instead of using the industry standard
Panasonic SMD caps that every FAR cheaper brand was using and it RUINED
ALL the logic boards in IIFX, Classic, Classic II, etc. computers? If
someone knows anything about these CD drives that I don't, please let me
know. I have a HIGH exposure to these, still having 30-50 of them
mounted in Apple computers in the warehouse.The white plastic CD bezel is missing. This one broke off before it came
in (but that CD drive worked then). I just put white Permacel tape over
the metal RF shielding there so it looks a little more normal.(Pro tip for Apple: If you make your computers out of metal just like,
oh EVERYONE ELSE IN THE INDUSTRY ALWAYS HAS, you won't have to do crap
schemes like copper colored painting inside and putting paper-thin RF
shields inside because it's plastic, use metal, it's a, uh, natural RF
shield. There's one called STEEL that's pretty cheap the last 125 years.
ABS plastic is weak and none weaker than that from Apple, it stands
alone, any one of these computers now sounds like a pack of Tic Tacs
when picked up because of all the plastic crumbs inside. In this Mac
bomb lot, NONE of these computers had plastic crumbs going in because I
clean those out when they come in [and yeah they all already did even
being only 5 years old then], nearly all of them did 18 years later
after literally not being touched or even moved.)The back of the case has the factory A/V video with the S-video I/O,
composite video, and stereo audio, along with the DB-15 Apple video
output. The microphone input and speakers output is on the logic board.This has a Farallon 10/100 NIC Ethernet card in it. Not sure why, this
one has a built-in NIC on the logic board, I think, maybe this is
better. It's about 2 years newer than the computer itself.Aside from the missing CD bezel this is a very, VERY clean Power
Macintosh, just look at the photos.The plastic piece that actuates the on/off power switch on these always
breaks, this one was not broken but I had to remove the logic board and
it must be removed to do that (a world first, really bright), and it
broke going back in. I spent an hour doing a very, very clean repair on
this. Then spent another hour doing it better and a little more heavily.
I carefully tacked it into place with epoxy so it would hold upside
down, let it set up, then mixed more epoxy and potted it into place very
well. This repair is invisible from the outside. The floppy and blank
bezels were apparently unbroken and I didn't take them off. Blow on
these things and they start to shed.The 8500/150AV had 3 PCI slots, a NIC is installed, so there are still
two slots left open. This is a super, super nice computer, it has two
out of three of the original factory PCI slot blank covers still in
place there. BTW I have those to list here on if anyone wants them.Generally speaking, the file dates on all these Power Macs I'm selling
suggest that they were used in the late 1990s, and some probably not for
two years before I got them 2002-2004, but some had some files on them
from 2003, in my recollection.The PRAM battery was surely dead. I normally don't replace those, so it
will need it if you don't want the "wrong clock time" clock error
message. Some Mac models (like the IIfx) will NOT start without a good
battery (or two in the IIfx), but this one will.Aside from the missing CD bezel, the condition of this is truly
excellent. It does have some paint chips and light scuffs on the edges
although they are so small that you might not be able to see that in the
photos.The photos are taken in sunny natural light so you can see everything
clearly. This Mac has relatively little yellowing. Again, this has been
sealed in an airtight case and in the dark for 18 years, and as I write
this is already wrapped in plastic and back in the same sealed case.It has built-in video which I think I have set to do 1,024 x 768. This
is the resolution needed for my professional clients so I set all my
Macs to that if they are able to do it. This one is able to do it. I
can't vouch for this, it's from Low End Mac, but "...With the default 2
MB of VRAM, this model supports a single display at 512x384, 640x480,
800x600 or 832x624 at 24-bit, 1024x768 or 1152x870 at 16-bit, and
1280x1024 at 8-bit....With the maximum 4 MB of VRAM installed, it
supports 512x384, 640x480, 800x600, 832x624, 1024x768, or 1152x870 at
24-bit and 1280x1024 at 16-bit.".The logic board is like new. Actually almost everything inside, too.
Just look at the CD bezel, CD drive doesn't seem to work, and the plastic on/off
switch actuator was broken and glued back. The computer starts and runs
perfectly. This is a very FAST PowerMac sale includes only the desktop computer, and no other peripherals
(monitor, keyboard, mouse...) are included. I used one of my own Apple
monitors (15AV, my favorite) and one of my own M2980 Apple Design
keyboards. If you need to buy a keyboard, just ask and I'll make a
listing for one if time you need, I can supply other Apple-related items. I have dozens of
displays, keyboards, mice, and other drives and accessories. Check the
other Synhouse listings or inquire if there is something you don't see,
if I have it I can make a special listing for you. Otherwise, I'll
probably list it anyway in due will be very, very safely packed for shipment. I will pack it into
a cardboard carton with solid foam, and, if possible, double-box it into
a second outer carton.Shipping to USA is flat rate $122.50, but if you are in California,
please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping
to $71.25 for you.Outside USA shipping is with the Global Shipping program.Synhouse has the most extreme shipping experience in the electronic
music business and as much as anyone on , period. With 32 years in
the international mail order business, Synhouse has what it takes to get
it done.Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of L.A. is okay if you can
work around my busy schedule, as I am very much looking forward to not
packing and shipping this. It will take me 3-4 hours of company time I
won't be paid for to pack and ship this as carefully as I do.Please see my other listings for SCSI drive enclosures and cables that
might be of interest.