God knows how long my 512Ke sat dormant. Probably at least 8-9 years. Was in the previous owner's basement for years. Plugged it in, slapped a System 1.1 disk into the drive, and hit the switch. Booted right up, without issues. Most of the 68000 machines were that way. The only ones that weren't: one of the 512K's, which displayed a permanently happy mac icon, an SE that kept ejecting whatever disk I'd pop into it, and a Classic that worked fine for a couple boots, then started checkerboarding. The Plus also had some slight issues, consisting of an analog board that only allowed a vertical line to show on the display. The SE/30's, a couple worked, but had no sound, thanks to bad caps, one powered up, but did the usual SimasiMac, and a third just displayed a blank screen (the one that had the exploded Tadiran battery). Classic II, SimasiMac as soon as it was powered up.

The older 68000 compact Macs seem to be fairly robust, so, pop it open, do a quick visual, then put it back together and power it up. After all, the one that Maceffects Mark owns hadn't been powered up since 1992.

-J