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My Mission: Save many computers to restore and upgrade!Click "Giveaways" to see what I do with many saved and restored computers just for my Patreon Members!Today's Top Project! Why a Mission to save computers, restore and upgrade?Did you know that you could help earth by Buying Green? Learn More https://google.com/search 'Save money & our planet with restored computers here.' I expertly restore, repair and, and sometimes upgrade computers as my computer hobby... then I'll post them here, and when I can, give them away plus I'll post videos as some are sold to help cover costs! Below is another one selling for less just to cover costs. See it on eBay sponsored by Computer Pro 2000" with over 429 items sold. This Rare G4 Cube is really popular with vintage collectors!  What was posted last month for Halloween!A YouTube video I made Halloween night is now posted for a fun diversion! In my newest video featuring Steve Jobs, who says it's important to ask for help, I'm telling visitors, "All persons who donate anything here will be automatically entered into my next Vintage Mac Giveaway!" As fun and as cool as that is, imagine this... If I only have 5 people join my Patreon Membership by my next vintage computer Giveaway, the odds of winning are 1 in 5. If only 6 people have donated by my PayPal link then the 6 are added to the 5 and the odds are 1 in 11. If you donate any retro computer or parts, then I add you to the list and the odds are 1 in 12. Where else could you get that kind of odds? Not in any sweepstakes or giveaway I know of. So people can continue to call me crazy, but as Steve says in the video, "I just ask, ... most people never ask and that's what separates sometimes the people who do things from the people who just dream about them." A great way to help save vintage tech is to mail your retro computers to my non-profit. Join the mission & your name can be a Film Star Credit in a future posted video! Ready to join the fun? Simply mail your vintage computer items to: Attn: ComputerHobbyShop C/O Richard A. McFarland P.O. Box 383 Saint Anthony, Idaho 83445 Wait, who are you? And I don't want to donate, I want to save my retro tech I already have! OK, click here! Fun Tech Projects!Before I retired from a professional computer services career, I taught Apple Macintosh Seminarsin over 70 US Cities, I used my Bondi Blue iMac G3 to make my Seminar Presentations, but my 100+ Apple Specs History Collection was on my old SCSI drive. I had to upgrade my iMac with an SCSI add-in that I put in the secret mezzanine slot, (this mezzaniene slot was a Molex 52760-1609 connector hidden inside on the motherboard). Here is just one example of what that strange slot was for. I purchased an SCSI card from a company in Germany called Formac. They called the card, "Formac iProRAID Ultra Wide SCSI" It cost me almost $200 USD plus shipping costs. I had a lot of backup files and old software, so it was very useful to get all my 68030 stuff into the G3 from my older Mac SCSI drives! Click for a pop-up showing where the Formac Card was installed. Now that I'm retired, I have fun restoring vintage computers and posting YouTube Videos. Since I'm still sort of new there I like to also watch other creators already on YouTube. When fellow Computer Hobbyists might ask me, "Who do you follow", I tell them one channel is @JDW- who makes some of the best vintage and retro restoration videos for hobbyist like me. I am not related to JDW, but I do recommend those in-depth videos. Click the pic to see more.  I found a modern use for older Apple Cinema Displays, (especially the 30" model & version similar to the picture below). These use Dual Link DVI, and the Apple Dual-DVI Video Card will drive these monitors in machines the way Apple intended. But did you know you can get the display to work with many modern Computers? This includes PCs when you use an Active Adapter like the Club 3D CAC-1510 USB Type C to DVI-D DUAL LINK Active Adapter. It has to be an Active Adapter like a Club 3D to process the DVI-D DUAL LINK video signal correctly. See a Cinema Display & Recomended Club 3D Active Adapter. Note: I have the Club 3D and have connected the Apple Cinema Display via USB C to send the correct signals even from my Samsung Galaxy Book2 (with SnapDragon 8x CPU and Windows 10). A pretty cool use for an older Apple product and of course it works with newer MacBooks too. If you have a fun project for ComputerHobbyShop, contact me.I may choose to use your ideas and/or donations in a future post and,unless you choose to be anonymous, I'll post your name in the credits. Of course, I don't like SPAM anymore than you do, so please You may email an idea or question or to not miss any new post and be listed with the first to know about new Giveaways, just subscribe or Click here to see and enjoy a modern game computer upgrade, custom made by RAM, (not the chips, but the Pro IT Trainer Guy). See the history of 'RAM' on LinkedIn Attention New Visitors! A 4+ decade Certified IT Trainer helps everyday ppl save $$$ getting their own computer!Subscribers to my Videos are interested in my fun Retro-Style Vintage Collectible Computers and my Money Saving Sponsored Modern Gaming Computer Upgrade Projects! Subscribers who also become my Patreon Members help grow my cool projects where I collect and restore retro-style computers to giveaway in my non-profit computer hobby. My goal in getting vintage & retro-style computers is to restore and then give away as many as I can to support my mission, ' To prevent collectible computers from ending up in landfills'. This can help reduce earth's pollution and save vintage and retro-style computers for you to enjoy. Of course, I need to cover costs, so I also upgrade modern computers to post at a very low prices to also to attract new members. See where I posted a fast Dell gaming system upgrade worth over $3,045. An early-access follower won it for just 1/6th the normal cost! Now is the best time to sign up while patreon members are few and opportunities are highest. To get early access to computers I give away, and be part of the excitement, go to my Patreon page! What Happens When You Signup At Patreon or Subscribe Here?You will help save computers from landfills and become a part of my coolproject of collecting and restoring vintage computers to give them away! I give all subscribers "early access" to my Fun Computer Videos and my newest Posts, and I even help you find out about my upgraded systems and retro giveaways. My website can be your contact for my exclusive tech deals and Special Giveaways, but if anyone doubts my sincerity, please read my Facebook response.  Now see what I restored and then sent to the lucky winner in Japan before Christmastime!  For this Special Collectible and Retro Style Computer, the lucky winner paid shipping, but my "Gold Planet Saving Patreon Members" pay no shipping to 48 United States. So you won't miss my money saving posts, here is how I can help you get great tech deals while doing your part to save our planet from toxic e-waste! In my mission, I collect and restore vintage computers and I make videos about them. I think too many owners do not know how to keep vintage computers working or they simply just throw out all old technology. But I would rather restore and give away old collectible computers than see unique vintage and retro items end up in a landfill. It's OK if you are not a geek and don't understand computers yet. I can show you how computers do compute with RAM . My baby boomer generation was the first to grow up in a technology-dominated world, and us boomers have seen it all happen, from LPs to DVDs and from Happy Days to BluRays. It's a matter of history that in the 1970s & 80s, geeks like me gathered together in User's Groups to have fun helping each other out with tech projects!  Your subscription on this website or your membership on Patreon will help the mission! Members get ahead of the game - they don't miss another exclusive tech giveaway. All membership levels get "early access" to my Fun Computer Videos and new Tech Posts, so members can find out early how I manage hardware projects. Members save on sponsored giveaways + chances to win upgraded tech. With early access, a member saved over $2,400 on this enthusiast gaming computer! You'll also see fun Computer Videos and enjoy your enthusiast hobby on YouTube! Don't miss your chance to save big & win great tech gear - sign up now! Who owns this site? I'm Richard, an IT Trainer, Tech Author and System Designer of the best money can buy. Yes, I'm a geek, but now I'm retired so I don't have to work for big business anymore! I enjoy computers, so I made this site fun and to read like a tech blog. (OK, I get it, now). You'll find more retro posts in my RANDOM ACCESS FILE: My Retro Time Machine takes you back to cool things in the tech world... there and back again ... Just like the Good Ol' Days, enjoy fun and exciting tech projects and even modern computers too! A true story in 1983 at Tinker AFB, OK where a WIMS Team was based and I was a Fire Inspector there.  I've no pics of a WIMS (Wang Information Management) system, except this unclassified off brand terminal.  Tinker ran a multimillion-dollar test to decide how the US Military would use Wang computers distributed at many offices on Tinker Air Force Base. The original Wang Company Programmer came over from Japan to program the test systems on the base. He brought his 17-year-old teenage son, who spent his time on 32 green screen games that he put on the system. That was how they used to test computer responsiveness. It was rumored that when he left the base, he left the games on. We discovered them plus how to play.  One day, while entering in Inspection Reports a friend was frustrated and hit the keyboard with "ZZZ". After I saw him get into it, I thought if he could find this with just "ZZZ", I decided to try "YYY". Sure enough, up came "32 Big Beautiful Games". While he played Hang Man, I played Star-Trek! Luckily, my friend and I did not get demoted for hacking, but when the Wing commander called our office, he said to the Master Sergeant in charge, "Several Generals and a couple of Full Bird Colonels who flew in to oversee the systems tests just remotely watched terminals playing HangMan and StarTrek." Coincidentally, this all happened before the movie, "War Games", which came out on June 3rd, 1983. But it occurred amazingly within a US Military Base by 2 Air Force Airmen and did not start outside of it.  Credits for pic idea goes to "thedrive" START OF NEW QUOTED POST by my little sister, Patty, (Trish Mathews on Facebook) "AUGUST 12, 1981 | IBM LAUNCHES THE FIRST PC On this day, the first Personal Computer was released by IBM. Also known as the IBM Model 5150, the first PC was a revolutionary microcomputer that used an Intel 8088 processor, Microsoft MS-DOS operating system, and an open architecture that allowed third-party peripherals and software.  Nerdy Fact: The first IBM PC had a distinctive sound when it was turned on, which was generated by the speaker on the motherboard. The sound was composed of three tones: a low-pitched tone of 440 Hz for 300 milliseconds, followed by a silence of 100 milliseconds, followed by a high-pitched tone of 880 Hz for 300 milliseconds. This sound sequence was designed to indicate that the power supply and the speaker were working properly. However, some users found the sound annoying or [even] alarming, and some even tried to disable it by cutting ... wires or covering them with tape" END QUOTE Thanks little sister Patty, but don't forget to see this pic 'Apple Computer from 1979 used in 1981'...  (I'm not sure, but he kinda looks like Paul Shindler from The Computer Chronicles) START OF NEW POST | ONE-OF-A-KIND MAC PRO  Credits for pic goes to "wccftech" TECH PRESERVATION POST | SE/30 REPAIR GUIDE PDF Thanks to Mac fans in Japan who made a helpful SE/30 repair guide long ago. See how I saved the same helpful retro post from the now defunct Japanese Website!  SE/30 Repair guide. (Saved from defunct Japanese Website)! Your name could be featured in a future post and/or video!Since computers are my hobby, after I repair and upgrade them I post them here and oneBay for far less cost than normal and some I give away whenever I can because...  See what I restored and then sent to the lucky winner in Japan before Christmastime! For this Special Giveaway the lucky new owner paid shipping, but remember, a 128K Macintosh is rare and not found often. Wait, I just saved another rare Mac from the landfill. I wonder who will get this one?  Short Video by @ComputerHobbyShop (Longer version on Patreon). There is a lot more fun coming, so subscribe to not miss a future post, new video or giveaway! Ready for more? Be sure to sign up & subscribe to be an early notified member. Vintage Computer Retro Fun Giveaways!Happy new owner gets a free giveaway of a Commodore 128Kwith Floppy Drive & Printer all in the original boxes! (That's cool, now ) 
The lucky new owner in this giveaway took ownership of a classic Commodore system and did not even have to pay for shipping, (like my Gold Planet Saving Patreon Members). Wait! Did you actually give a vintage Commodore 128 Computer System away? Yes and here is why I'll do it again. I don't like that too many old computers end up in landfills because their owners do not know how to keep them working or they consider them obsolete. Rather than see them go to a landfill and pollute the earth, I choose to repair and restore vintage or retro style computers to go to new owners! I also plan to let my upgraded computers sell on eBay for very little to keep your costs low! It's my unique way of advertising for new members to join me as Patreon Channel Supporters. 
.But don't forget My Mission - To Prevent Collectible Computers From Ending Up In Landfills! Of course I understand if you don't want to part with something, so if you just want it fixed, email me to ask. I make sure that retro computers are restored and or saved to go to a good home and not a landfill. So if you do want to donate retro tech, unlike some websites, I turn nothing legal away, then the magic happens! When you send something in, it is a great way to help save vintage retro-tech and your name will be entered into my next free random giveaway of cool tech toys. Be sure to contact me 1st then simply mail your vintage computer items to: Attn: ComputerHobbyShop C/O Richard A. McFarland P.O.Box 383 Saint Anthony, Idaho 83445 My goal - Richard's ComputerHobbyShop Makes Saving Vintage Computers Fun and Affordable. If you become a Supporting Member at my Patreon Page, besides being 1st to know about Giveaways, Patreon Members get other Special Bonuses! Care to help ComputerHobbyShop without becoming a member? Donate as little or as much as you want via Secure PayPal Window by Clicking on Spock!  See feedback from some previously sold posts. Because I'm serious about you saving a lot, all crossed out sale prices = a 10% to 20% lower best offer. Anyone remember HyperCard? I have future videos coming on Card Stacks I made. 
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My Intel Core i7, 12M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz CPU Gaming PC,
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Sorry you missed my very nice,
Blue 7th Gen 32GB Apple iPod touch! Below are the technical specs from Apple.com.
Previous post, a Refurbished Super Fast MacBook Pro!
An Apple Intel Core i5 with Storage updated
to a brand new 2021 SSD.
I spent the money shown above
to make a better MacBook Pro for you.
Here's your chance to help the planet by
buying a Green Earth & Eco-Friendly Laptop
Installing and updating Catalina went
fast with the upgraded 16GB RAM.
Ports shown left to right are, 1 Magesafe
Power Jack, 1 Ethernet, 1 Firewire 800,
1 Thunderbolt 2, 2 USB 3.0, a Camera
Card Reader, & Headphone Jack
There is plenty of space left in this
Brand New Western Digital 480GB SSD.
You'll love using the working DVD Drive for
movies + moving music CDs to iTunes.
After getting the message below, I
finished installing all current updates.
The lid opens and closes easily & the hinges work great.
In almost every review regarding the best laptops, this Macbook Pro is always the main challenger.
Supported by an Intel i5 processor with a speed of 3 GHz Boost and 2.5 GHz base, [upgraded with 16 GB] DDR3 RAM,
Intel HD Graphics 4000, and support for up to 2TB of hard disk memory
this laptop is one of the best laptops of all time.
(Tech Reviews, Oct 29, 2020).
This MacBook Pro comes with a brand new
Magsafe charger as shown below.
Besides coming with iTunes you also get Pages,
(Apple's app like MS Word)
Plus Keynote, another Apple app,
(like MS PowerPoint)
And Apple's Numbers app,
(a program like MS Excel).
You can use a power saving 4K TV,
or you might want to use any standard HDTV,
but you don't need it for the Mac laptop to work.
Refurbished for Richard's ComputerHobbyShop.com by
The seller is licensed.
See my great feedback below.
Fast & Free! Ships by USPS Priority Mail
(International buyers see eBay Global Shipping)
See the password info below for the buyer.
eBay item pricing does not consider upgrades and
values fluctuate wildly on eBay & cannot be guaranteed.
In preparing ad, eBay posted this chart.
Below is an eBay search to compare
price & value of 3 similar sold Laptops.
Below is a value checker I created for you.
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with RAM & Storage updated to 2021 Specs on eBay.
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December Christmas PC Laptop Deal
See who bought this HP EliteBook that sold for hundreds of $$$ less than when new...
Originally it cost over $1,000.00 when new, but I asked only $125.00.
New studies now show that most people trend to view websites via mobile devices.
I'm rebelling against trends with my favorite way to surf the net. My PC connects to a large screen 4K TV and I didn't have to spend large on a second screen with a previous model 50" Vizio Family Home Theater/Game Room HDTV. It even supports a max of 1080p resolution.
Surprisingly, it is as much fun to use as my newer 4K TV.
I use it for website editing on both Macs and PCs as it has 3 HDMI ports, like a newer 4K HDTV.
It also has VGA & Composite Video ports for older game machines. I've also used it on a Mac mini and
Mac Pro plus an Apple TV and my Gaming PC too. It has 1080P resolution and a newer Vizio has 4K.
(Shout out to Vizio! Sponsor a review here of your TVs to increase TVs sold as PC monitors).
Details are posted for my MacBook Air that sold very fast for $300 less than normal...
Not to rub it in, but the savings missed was on a pretty 2015 Custom Apple Core i7 shown below.
ComputerPro2000 sold it very fast where eBay & PayPal also offer a 30 day money-back guarantee.
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Sorry, you missed this great Apple Laptop. Just sold is my Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro
I upgraded this 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and a fast 480GB SSD.
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Wow, that last post for a green earth PC finished at 44 bids!
When we work hard we'll want to take a break to play a few games too! Here is a nice DSi XL.
To prep it for sale, a simple video demos this DSi XL Console!
Honorable mention goes to naymare-7, who just purchased this on eBay. For him or anyone else interested, here's good news about this DSi XL. If you want to install a lot more fun stuff, I found a video with links to websites, that shows you how to mod it for root access. It seems a lot of people are doing that and you can essentially jail break it to load more games and unlock a lot more of it's features than was previously possible when softmodding this DSi XL console. Although I have not done this yet, it sounds like a lot of fun, which is why I built this hobby website to begin with. I'll see you next time. Won't that be fun!
In case anyone else wants to know, I received a question on my Dell Intel Core i5 with Fast SSD Drive.
eBayer kevigadsde_0 wanted to know, ... 'will your computer be able to hook up to my hdmi tv or [does it have to] be a computer montior?' I replied, 'No problem, you just need a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. You could also adapt DVI to HDMI, but trust me, DisplayPort to HDMI is better ... the adapters are cheap, as found on eBay...'
I have converted this PC from "BuyItNow" to an auction and it is at $9.95 at the time of this post.
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I never thought I'd see 2020. I was born around the time that Sputnik was launched into space.
I remeber the late 50s and early 60s were times when many thought the earth would be destroyed by nuclear war. But today the trend is more towards Arctic ecosystems protection from oil spills and black carbon emissions.
I grew up on a farm & fought for the preservation of wild life. This attitude of a green earth was new to many people, but I followed it into my future work with computers and I just made
a Green Earth PC Project for 2020.
12/30/2019: My last post on eBay for 2019 is where I upgraded a Dell Intel Core i5 with a Fast SSD Drive. It now boots faster into Windows using less power! I also has a new WD Black 1 TB Hard Drive for website graphics, data backups & maybe even a games library too. It was a lot of fun to refurbish. Click the image for more details.
Happy New Year!
I think you would have liked how fast I made it.
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This was my last carefully refurbished project from my last post in 2019. See you in 2020!
12/11/2019: Here's feedback from one I helped on the December 4th post, 'Refurbished Intel Core i7s'.
(I think he meant to say, "transaction", but his main point is still clear)....
He bought 3 of my PCs from my post last week and he's very happy!
I'm glad, but so more people get a chance, in the future I'd ask followers to only buy once per post.
12/4/2019: On this date, I've been refurbishing used PCs & Macs just for the fun of it and
I've just finished 4 PCs and 1 Mac. See the Refurbished Intel Core i7s listed below.
Here an entire PC can sell for less than just the CPU might sell for alone.
Open a new widow to show my Intel Core i7 Dell PC for example....
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And if you like Apple computers, then here is a Mac mini you should see....
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RAM's RANDOM ACCESS FILE:
Do you know?
What IBM geeks used to gather in User's Groups to help each other out with mainframe issues?ANSWER ... SHARE was a 1955 group of aerospace industry users of IBM mainframes and is the oldest group still active. Most all of those once popular user's groups & club meetings have long since moved to the Internet as 'THE' source of help.
When Amazon sponsors it, I can help you look for a good tech job.
Many tech oriented jobs exist with
"specific goals & strategic openings for students".
Tech workers who speak a second language are needed as the demand for bilingual workers is rising.
When I taught tech seminars, it was with all expenses paid as I had traved to teach a thousand + clients
in the lower 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii + Canada. Traveling trainers get served by a lot of flight attendants.
I always enjoyed traveling, especially to share my best tech ideas.
My success helping people has encouraged me to post on this site and share my expert skills!
Eventually, live seminars became less popular than the Internet and times changed.
More and more IT work was local and I'd get reviews like past and present ones posted below.
I later worked daily as a Technical Trainer for the U.S. Dept. of Labor.
There, the real challenge seemed to be getting people to beleive in what they can do!
It was shut down when Covid-19 hit in early 2020.
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