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This whole project started about a year ago.

I bought this Plus on ebay. Realized it was an upgraded original 128k.

So my quest has been to down grade it.

I needed an original Macintosh Main-board,

I needed a Original MACINTOSH boot(rear).

I needed a 400k floppy drive

The Main board:

Last year Mcdermd told me that he had a original 128k board laying around. But he cautioned me, it had been upgraded to a 512k, and the rom's were missing.

So he installed the original amount of ram, and flashed me up some Rom's,

Also he found me a boot, but its missing the rear decals, that is ok ill take it.

Anyways he sent those to me.

So I have this thing all together.

let me say, I thought the 800k floppy drive was going to work. Nope. It doesn't.

Good news is though, I was lucky enough to win a 400k external a few months back.

So booting from the external 400k, it came right to the desktop.

Finally!

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I still need to acquire a 400k drive.

I still need to acquire a proper 512k/128k tin for the mainboard

I still need to acquire a Macintosh badge with Info sticker as well.

Other then that this thing is rockin!

Solid A/B

Clean CRT, NIce and bright.

It's taken a few bucks and alot of watin.

Here are some other pics.

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