Cheers for the replies. Certainly the iMac G4s and the iPod were the ones that caught me by surprise the most. I phoned around to some northern suburbs primary schools asking if they had any machines around and finally found one that had 3 in storage. I bought two of them since they wanted the third for display purposes, a little bit surprised when I found out the prices. Incredible deal. The iPod was a little more surprising since it was bumped up to an otherwise high price in a frantic eBay bidding war that resulted in a win by only a single Australian dollar. They're being stored again now for the time being (in a temperature controlled indoor room, of course) but eventually i'd like to have them displayed somewhere as a set. The iMac will have to be reloaded with Mac OS X Jaguar first since it's currently running Mac OS X Tiger Server, but after that it should look just as it did when it left the factory.
So, if you're after some machines that you're not aware of being able to find anywhere else, just grab the phone and make a few calls. It's amazing sometimes what you can find.
For what it's worth, the Macintosh Classic is a milestone in my collective Apple history. My first Mac was a Macintosh Classic, 40MB Hard Disk, running System 6. The machine failed in 2005 on the same day I made my introductory post to the 68kMLA and unfortunately due to the heavy corrosion of the processor tracks, it was scrapped in 2006. To have another Macintosh Classic in fully working condition is a second chance at owning one of these machines, armed with the knowledge of capacitor replacement and micro-soldering, it shouldn't be too hard to ensure it stays working for years to come. The hardest part will be stamping the drive mounting carriers for the hard disk drives, certainly not looking forward to that job.
Cheers to beachycove for the offer of the ROM SIMMs, i'll probably take you up on that offer. If it's PayPal though, i'll need to try and hurry it through since the bank tends to be fairly slow on clearing funds into the PayPal account. If there's no rush it shouldn't be a huge issue. Cheers to Bunsen as well, i'll see how things go and we'll go from there if one turns out unrecoverable.
I'll just talk a little about my return as well. I'm currently looking after a house for someone while they're away and in a moment of boredom, I stopped in to the IRC channel to get a bit of a feel for the current state of the community. What I found was a community that was thriving for information, but losing its sense of direction and its sense of community. One of the more daunting things I particularly noticed though is a loss of a lot of our founding and older members, that is the members that guided 68kMLA through its infancy and development. Now i'm by no means a founding member (my membership started in 2005, visited as far back as 2004) but I know a few things about this community from 2004 to 2010 and wanted to see what I could bring to the table.
So, here I am.
Cheers
- Michael (iMac600)
So, if you're after some machines that you're not aware of being able to find anywhere else, just grab the phone and make a few calls. It's amazing sometimes what you can find.
For what it's worth, the Macintosh Classic is a milestone in my collective Apple history. My first Mac was a Macintosh Classic, 40MB Hard Disk, running System 6. The machine failed in 2005 on the same day I made my introductory post to the 68kMLA and unfortunately due to the heavy corrosion of the processor tracks, it was scrapped in 2006. To have another Macintosh Classic in fully working condition is a second chance at owning one of these machines, armed with the knowledge of capacitor replacement and micro-soldering, it shouldn't be too hard to ensure it stays working for years to come. The hardest part will be stamping the drive mounting carriers for the hard disk drives, certainly not looking forward to that job.
Cheers to beachycove for the offer of the ROM SIMMs, i'll probably take you up on that offer. If it's PayPal though, i'll need to try and hurry it through since the bank tends to be fairly slow on clearing funds into the PayPal account. If there's no rush it shouldn't be a huge issue. Cheers to Bunsen as well, i'll see how things go and we'll go from there if one turns out unrecoverable.
I'll just talk a little about my return as well. I'm currently looking after a house for someone while they're away and in a moment of boredom, I stopped in to the IRC channel to get a bit of a feel for the current state of the community. What I found was a community that was thriving for information, but losing its sense of direction and its sense of community. One of the more daunting things I particularly noticed though is a loss of a lot of our founding and older members, that is the members that guided 68kMLA through its infancy and development. Now i'm by no means a founding member (my membership started in 2005, visited as far back as 2004) but I know a few things about this community from 2004 to 2010 and wanted to see what I could bring to the table.
So, here I am.
Cheers
- Michael (iMac600)