Hidden treasure inside an old AirPort Extreme Base Station (A1034)

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Just opened up an old AirPort Extreme Base Station (A1034) just to see what it had inside. Upon a little digging I found it literally houses a standard AirPort Extreme Card and is powered by an AMD CPU/SoC!

Got curious about if the AirPort Card would work in a standard Mac and it does!

So my eMac gains WiFi finally in 2022, as it wasn’t ordered with AirPort according to the sticker on the drive door!
 

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Nice! We used to salvage the original grey saucer Airport base stations since they had Orinoco Gold PCMCIA wireless cards inside. Many a laptop gained wireless capability for cheap/free because of this!
 
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ScutBoy said:
Nice! We used to salvage the original grey saucer Airport base stations since they had Orinoco Gold PCMCIA wireless cards inside. Many a laptop gained wireless capability for cheap/free because of this!
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It was a nice surprise to see a standard AirPort card inside! Least Apple used a good card even in their older AirPort Base Stations! Shall have to keep an eye out for other AirPort Extremes of this vintage or older as I've got a few other Macs that wouldn't say no to an AirPort card or similar!
 
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