OK! The mystery Plus/D has been disassembled and troubleshot!
What lay within!
Looks to me like the original owner turned his 128k into a SILENT Ersatz-Stock SE/30/4/0 before finally hanging it up. I'll bet he/she used this sucker all the way from 1984 -> the PPC era . . .
. . . that's over 10 years productive lifetime on the original, signed fronts-piece, Macintosh 128k! 8-o
All this puppy needs is the MicroMac drivers and plenty of room for VM on an internally hacked 2.5" SCSI (or adapted IDE) Laptop Drive! Maybe a new bucket too, a few of the cooling vanes on the top are borked.
. . . and maybe a new battery to see if it actually works. :?:
The old battery was only slightly leaking at the top and the contact has only minor corrosion. After I removed the bad battery, my "certified dead" conquest gave me a startup BOING and hit the FDD for a System Disk, but no joy on the Video. I'm hoping that's just a Compact Mac version of the old MicroQuadra/Missing Battery Syndrome . . .
. . . I'm clueless ATM, but I've got debugging/repair books at home!
BTW, will three AAs wired in series and rigged to contacts on the ends of a wooden dowel do the job? :rambo:
What lay within!
Looks to me like the original owner turned his 128k into a SILENT Ersatz-Stock SE/30/4/0 before finally hanging it up. I'll bet he/she used this sucker all the way from 1984 -> the PPC era . . .
. . . that's over 10 years productive lifetime on the original, signed fronts-piece, Macintosh 128k! 8-o
All this puppy needs is the MicroMac drivers and plenty of room for VM on an internally hacked 2.5" SCSI (or adapted IDE) Laptop Drive! Maybe a new bucket too, a few of the cooling vanes on the top are borked.
. . . and maybe a new battery to see if it actually works. :?:
The old battery was only slightly leaking at the top and the contact has only minor corrosion. After I removed the bad battery, my "certified dead" conquest gave me a startup BOING and hit the FDD for a System Disk, but no joy on the Video. I'm hoping that's just a Compact Mac version of the old MicroQuadra/Missing Battery Syndrome . . .
. . . I'm clueless ATM, but I've got debugging/repair books at home!
BTW, will three AAs wired in series and rigged to contacts on the ends of a wooden dowel do the job? :rambo: