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It has been a while since my last visit...
... and back then I was complaining about the lack of conquests/liberations I got. Well, not any more! 
In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly would-be dumped machines):
- a G4/733 Digital Audio, complete with a 17'' Studio Display (the big, extraterrestrial one, over a tripod...)
- a pair of 6400/180 (those two were just laying in the corridor, waiting for the recycler to come... I took both because I expected one not to work. After all, they both work! )
- a G3/233 "Gossamer" (everything stock, save the extra 64 megs of RAM it has...) - and it still had a VGA adapter hanging from it, a really valuable find!!
- a Classic (unfortunately, the only one which does not work... boots to a garbled screen, I still need to find the large screwdriver to open the case and check its innards...)
. a LC (this one had been heavily upgraded - memory maxed at 10 MBs, VRAM maxed as well, and a FPU on a card stuck to the LC PDS slot... this belonged to a Biology department, I believe they did some theoretical, computational work with it... and the G3 also had some similar software on its hard drive...)
And the latest ones:
- a Mac 512k (it states "Macintosh" at the back, the serial number dates to mid-July 1984, but it does have 512K of memory (I've checked that once I got a working boot floppy for it...). Maybe an aftermarket upgrade? (Battery is obviously dead, but fortunately it did not leak into the analog board, like my Plus... The screen is nice and crisp, the internal disk drive needs to be serviced, but I do have an external floppy drive which came with my Plus...
- and a 333 G3 iMac (Blueberry). That one is really nice cosmetically (save for the CD tray cover, my friend at the IT department opened it up to upgrade it a little and forgot to put it back... and now he doesn't know where he placed it! ), and came with matching keyboard and mouse...
I urgently need to find a solution to keep my collection decently stored... I'm thinking of shelves, but that will need some time to work out properly. I wished I had more time to play with them!! (with all this course and research work, I don't have the time I did when I was simply a high school student!! )
Well, that's all for now. Today I found a little time to browse the forum, and I've enjoyed it a lot - again, I wished I had more time to dedicate to this hobby (my website is extremely out of date, the hard drive on my server needs, er, servicing () , among other things). Unfortunately, time is not infinite... 
In the course of this year I got (all for free, mostly would-be dumped machines):
- a G4/733 Digital Audio, complete with a 17'' Studio Display (the big, extraterrestrial one, over a tripod...)
- a pair of 6400/180 (those two were just laying in the corridor, waiting for the recycler to come... I took both because I expected one not to work. After all, they both work!
)- a G3/233 "Gossamer" (everything stock, save the extra 64 megs of RAM it has...) - and it still had a VGA adapter hanging from it, a really valuable find!!
- a Classic (unfortunately, the only one which does not work... boots to a garbled screen, I still need to find the large screwdriver to open the case and check its innards...)
. a LC (this one had been heavily upgraded - memory maxed at 10 MBs, VRAM maxed as well, and a FPU on a card stuck to the LC PDS slot... this belonged to a Biology department, I believe they did some theoretical, computational work with it... and the G3 also had some similar software on its hard drive...)
And the latest ones:
- a Mac 512k (it states "Macintosh" at the back, the serial number dates to mid-July 1984, but it does have 512K of memory (I've checked that once I got a working boot floppy for it...). Maybe an aftermarket upgrade? (Battery is obviously dead, but fortunately it did not leak into the analog board, like my Plus...
The screen is nice and crisp, the internal disk drive needs to be serviced, but I do have an external floppy drive which came with my Plus...- and a 333 G3 iMac (Blueberry). That one is really nice cosmetically (save for the CD tray cover, my friend at the IT department opened it up to upgrade it a little and forgot to put it back... and now he doesn't know where he placed it!
), and came with matching keyboard and mouse...I urgently need to find a solution to keep my collection decently stored... I'm thinking of shelves, but that will need some time to work out properly. I wished I had more time to play with them!! (with all this course and research work, I don't have the time I did when I was simply a high school student!!
)Well, that's all for now. Today I found a little time to browse the forum, and I've enjoyed it a lot - again, I wished I had more time to dedicate to this hobby (my website is extremely out of date, the hard drive on my server needs, er, servicing (
) , among other things). Unfortunately, time is not infinite...
Good for you kind sir! I have a 128k, can't tell much until I get someone who can actually be effective with a soldering iron to get the CRT to work; but I like the iMac 333-I got one from my Aunt Freddie and it is grape, she gave me the original keyboard and hockey-puck mouse with it (they flaked out and had to be replaced with spares unfortunately, and in my own personal opinion, just like the 128k/512k/512ke/Plus/SE/SE/30/Classic/Classic II/Color Classic/Color Classic II/Performa 200/Performa 250/Performa 275 were all REAL "Classics" the 4 revisions of tray-loading iMacs deserve the label "New Classics". That 333 grape iMac is how I fulfilled (however poorly) my Classic desires until a 128k could be conquered.
Strangely enough, even though I said I wanted newer, faster, better compacts I still couldn't stop getting the 128k. $25 when the fix appears to be a relatively easy one (save for the fact I'm no good at soldering anything) to fix, and a way to say I have a legal Mac 128k for Mini vMac (I don't really want to touch it unless I have a real 128k and it is made working both, and even then solely as a way to get my 128k and my iMac 2.8GHz to talk to one another), is a really sweet deal for me!
Hope this helps and have a great day! :b&w:
Strangely enough, even though I said I wanted newer, faster, better compacts I still couldn't stop getting the 128k. $25 when the fix appears to be a relatively easy one (save for the fact I'm no good at soldering anything) to fix, and a way to say I have a legal Mac 128k for Mini vMac (I don't really want to touch it unless I have a real 128k and it is made working both, and even then solely as a way to get my 128k and my iMac 2.8GHz to talk to one another), is a really sweet deal for me!
Hope this helps and have a great day! :b&w: