Charlieman, now we're talking internal modifications. I think we would all agree finding an unmodified 128K (with either badging) today is more rare than a modified one. Most of the wealthy early adopters I knew sold them in favor of some other model. That's how I got mine: when my buddy upgraded to a Plus. But by the time I could afford to upgrade it I was able to buy a more powerful Mac. Thank God for the Apple student discount!
The M0001 registry is a good idea. Privacy issues aside, it could be as simple as recording the serial number as "currently owned" and its present condition without even so much as an e-mail address, using something like Google Spreadsheets (with regular backups of course). I'll look into it.
DONE, here it is: http://www.Mac128.com/m0001
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2234
As for the continued 128K-bashing ;-) I doubt anyone would become so frustrated they would shove a $2500 purchase into storage. If nothing else it would make a good clock. Besides if they had that much money, they would have owned a $500 external floppy disk drive too and been as happy with their 128K as I was.
The M0001 registry is a good idea. Privacy issues aside, it could be as simple as recording the serial number as "currently owned" and its present condition without even so much as an e-mail address, using something like Google Spreadsheets (with regular backups of course). I'll look into it.
DONE, here it is: http://www.Mac128.com/m0001
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2234
As for the continued 128K-bashing ;-) I doubt anyone would become so frustrated they would shove a $2500 purchase into storage. If nothing else it would make a good clock. Besides if they had that much money, they would have owned a $500 external floppy disk drive too and been as happy with their 128K as I was.