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I'm new to the "hobby", just starting my collection of vintage machines. Here's my first! The original Macintosh, rescued from the bowels of a trash bin in (very) rural Idaho. All cleaned up, floppy drive lubricated, and now with some brand new diskettes to glide into that sexy slot. More to come!
Next up is this super clean Macintosh IIsi I picked up complete for $80. Equipped with the 80MB disk drive option, she runs System 7.0.1 on 10MB RAM. Also included inside was the NuBus adapter with FPU upgrade, and an Apple Macintosh II display card. Rounding out the exterior is a perfectly matching Macintosh 12" Monochrome Display, and the Apple Extended Keyboard II.
The last document saved pertains to the presidential campaign back in 2004.
She does need a little work. The audio is VERY low. You can hear it, but only with your ear right up next to the case. I cleaned the weird speaker springs and treated them with GoldGuard, but no affect. I'll change out the capacitors in the near future for sure. The floppy is a wee bit sticky-- no doubt the grease is starting to solidify. I already replaced the original 1990 manufacture battery.
The last document saved pertains to the presidential campaign back in 2004.
She does need a little work. The audio is VERY low. You can hear it, but only with your ear right up next to the case. I cleaned the weird speaker springs and treated them with GoldGuard, but no affect. I'll change out the capacitors in the near future for sure. The floppy is a wee bit sticky-- no doubt the grease is starting to solidify. I already replaced the original 1990 manufacture battery.
I'd take the PRAM battery out... I mean it only holds trivial settings... Then there is no fear about you forgetting it in there.. the same for your original Mac... I leave them out of all my machines.. And I also take out batteries out of laptops when I store them. I also use a label maker and put on the back with a re-cap date, and specs and I put "NO PRAM BATT".... just how I do it...
Putting DATES on all work done is really KEY!!! It saves a lot of headaches down the line.. you know what you did and when!!!
Excellent work!
The way you found that 128k still blows my mind. I'd love to find one, but yeah, I'm not holding my breath 
Congrats, the IIsi is prone to cap leakage, but a very nice computer.
Congrats on the original Mac find. There must be loads of people drooling with envy over the circumstances of that discovery - myself included.
The IIsi is a cool machine. It's not one I ever felt particularly compelled to buy in the past, but there's something quite unique about it that has a certain draw. Nice one!!
The IIsi is a cool machine. It's not one I ever felt particularly compelled to buy in the past, but there's something quite unique about it that has a certain draw. Nice one!!
The fact that the casing is unique to the model make it quite special.
The floppy is easy to solve, removing the old grease and putting new will produce a real difference, removing and changing caps will probably solve your audio problems.