Woah, how did you manage to get so much stuff? All in one go or several different places? And where are you going to keep it all?!

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The IIsi and all the documentation, peripherals, &c. came from Freecycle, and all of it from one person!!

As for the IIci and the UMAX, I brought both of those back from uni, but without the luxury of a car, so I had to lug 15kg of hardware to the train station and then start the uphill trek home lol!

The IIci probably has a dead battery, which would explain the B&W resolution - you say it's running OS 7.1. OS 7.5+ seem to remember the resolution/colour depth even if the battery is dead, whereas the older versions revert to B&W.

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Yeah, I think the PRAM battery's died. I seem to recall that the date reverted to 01/01/1904 and the thing was running rather slowly. Fortunately, the battery is not soldered in the IIci, and I have a spare working one in the other Performa 475 I have, so I'll transfer it to the IIci at some stage.

As for the HyperCard discs, hopefully you can find some copies online or someone that can upload them - if you reimage the discs then they will hopefully be as good as new. I also have a set of four HyperCard floppies that I was given ages ago with my Plus - can't remember what version they are though, or even if they work. "Basica" sounds like it could be a different language version?

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Yeah, I have several copies of HyperCard I downloaded from various places, but in order to re-image my copies, I need the correct versions. It'll be rather daft to have 3 diskettes containing the material for the British version of HyperCard, only to have the U.S. version of the application on the program diskette

Perhaps you could check which version you have on the disks that came with your Plus at some stage?

As for "Basica", that was a typo. It has "HyperCard Basics" printed lol!

I don't think the AppleCD would have yellowed anyway - I have a 300 and the casing is mostly metal - only the bit right at the front is plastic, though even that doesn't seem to have yellowed.

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You probably have the internal version of the 300, which is called the AppleCD 300 Plus. That one is completely encased in metal, with only the facia being plastic. The 300 I have is external and has an Apple logo on the left (obscured because of the case its been put inside) as well as a power switch and two audio jacks on the back.

Unfortunately, I can't remove the d2 case as it's been screwed in place using strange screws that look like something only a Torx-7 screwdriver could take out.

That reminds me, I forgot to mention that I also have two sets of complete documentation about the d2 drive encasings in plastic pouches plus a floppy disk containing some d2 drivers.

What type of memory are the two Kingston 32MB modules?

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I'll have to dig them out from the bag, as I can't remember. They look identical to what I have in my Performa 475, but that's not much help seeing you don't have a Performa lol!

I'll have a look at them later today and let you know.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: Latest haul

It took about four days of 8 hour a day power up conditioning time for my freecycled Apple Multiple Scan 17 Display to recover to an acceptable color balance, and there were some mechanical intermittents along the way. There were some plugged connections deep inside that I reseated, and in addition some input blocking aluminum electrolytic capacitors to the video amp inputs appear to have gradually reformed their oxide. Obnoxious when I first got it, but performs solidly now! If you can, leave it on running for a while with any sleep mode disabled.

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Wouldn't that cause the CRT to burn? Then again, if it would mean getting the colour back to normal, then I guess that's a small price to pay.