My 128K was delivered today!
The machine is well-yellowed, but overall free from scuffs and scratches; and is relatively clean. Looks like this guy was well taken care of.
I thought the 512s I recently picked up were pretty yellow, but looking at the keyboards side-by-side it’s easy to see that the 128K is far worse. 128K on the top, 512K on the bottom:
The seller on eBay was not the original owner of this Mac because he didn’t appear to know what was up with the switch hanging out the back. I though maybe that it was connected to a fan that had been modded into the case or something, but it turned out to something completely different. First order of business was opening it up to check it out.
The inside is almost spotless. No cob webs. No rust. No corrosion.
So that little switch on the back leads down to the logicboard and is attached to a homemade prototype board. What could it be?
I pulled out the logicboard to find that the previous owner had modded this pristine original 1983 board to accept 8 Megs or RAM! A cool mod, but NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I was really hoping that the board was original and untouched. On the bright side, at least it wasn’t upgraded to a Mac Plus or 512K board.
Fortunately, he soldered DIP sockets to the board and popped the 512K RAM chips into them. So if I wanted I could easily remove them and put original 8K chips back in. (If I can find them.)
As usual, the internal 400K floppy drive isn’t reading disks. It’s not even accepting them. So I think it needs some grease and a little TLC. I’ll just have to add it to the growing list of floppy drives that I need to repair. At least it powers on! That’s a start, but with the floppy drive on its back, I couldn't boot it up to see what the switch does.
Memorial Day weekend is coming up. Looks like it’s going to be a dip-a-thon!
The machine is well-yellowed, but overall free from scuffs and scratches; and is relatively clean. Looks like this guy was well taken care of.
I thought the 512s I recently picked up were pretty yellow, but looking at the keyboards side-by-side it’s easy to see that the 128K is far worse. 128K on the top, 512K on the bottom:
The seller on eBay was not the original owner of this Mac because he didn’t appear to know what was up with the switch hanging out the back. I though maybe that it was connected to a fan that had been modded into the case or something, but it turned out to something completely different. First order of business was opening it up to check it out.
The inside is almost spotless. No cob webs. No rust. No corrosion.
So that little switch on the back leads down to the logicboard and is attached to a homemade prototype board. What could it be?
I pulled out the logicboard to find that the previous owner had modded this pristine original 1983 board to accept 8 Megs or RAM! A cool mod, but NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I was really hoping that the board was original and untouched. On the bright side, at least it wasn’t upgraded to a Mac Plus or 512K board.
Fortunately, he soldered DIP sockets to the board and popped the 512K RAM chips into them. So if I wanted I could easily remove them and put original 8K chips back in. (If I can find them.)
As usual, the internal 400K floppy drive isn’t reading disks. It’s not even accepting them. So I think it needs some grease and a little TLC. I’ll just have to add it to the growing list of floppy drives that I need to repair. At least it powers on! That’s a start, but with the floppy drive on its back, I couldn't boot it up to see what the switch does.
Memorial Day weekend is coming up. Looks like it’s going to be a dip-a-thon!