3. Something you got for free, rescuing it from certain destruction in the process. These are the "liberations" or "rescues". These can range from getting a computer a school was…

What is an EPIC OMG ELEVENTY Conquest, Click to expand... IMO, -A vintage Apple branded item, that is sealed/new-in-box. -An Apple-branded or 3rd party product that is widely…

2. Something you got for free; but that was not going to be thrown away. I'd call these "a transfer". Most of these would be the trades that occur via these forums, or similar. …

Hi, It just arrived! This poor Plus looks like it came from a bad home. It was absolutely filthy, and the power connector where you plug the power cable into is all rusted, gree…

Well, it depends on your definition of 'conquest', first. To me, there are three categories: 1. Something you purchased. For any price. I'd call these "a conquest", because you…

I was considering that myself, but that would leave a rather unsightly hole I would assume... I'd much rather have it all-original Click to expand... Well, you could always nic…

I would almost advise you to remove those upgrades and bring it back to its original state, just out of principle. Click to expand... Click to expand... I was considering th…

You can see in the 2nd photo there is an extra port on the back, looks like parallel/SCSI/something? Not too familiar with these. He thought the memory had been upgraded as well, b…

Not bad at all (ps thats a SCSI port)

Just finished cleaning off my latest find: An original Mac, upgraded a bit. This is my first pre-90's Macintosh, and I'm quite happy! Paid $40 for it, though it doesn't come with a…

I guess it depends on what you get into. Somebody who doesn't much like compacts won't think a conquest of a dozen SE/30's is a big deal while others would drool over it. Some peop…

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale. Click to expand... That wo…

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale.

Yeah I agree. Yes Nico it was you. I do think a Mac Plus is epic because I don't have a working Compact (yet-- A 512k is on its way to me ) But I found a keyboard and mouse in …

OK, Well you know the IIcis I liberated? All of the Floppies that came with it (Except one- Macintosh Basics) Don't have that extra hole on the side. I have SUM (Symantec Utilit…

Which is why I think you can't really categorize conquests into distinct awesomeness-levels. Click to expand... For other people, that is. For yourself, then yes. I have defini…

LOL, that would've been me you're talking about. I guess the fact you bring this point up already proves that this is a very subjective thing. In my view, the Plus is a pretty com…

It's the ratio of how desirable/rare the item(s) were, compared to how much money was dispensed, multiplied by the total number of items received.

So I've been thinking. What is an EPIC OMG ELEVENTY Conquest, and what is a small conquest. How do we categorize these conquests? I read a thread about a Mac Plus conquest with …

Note that I wrote all that from the top of my head, so I might have gotten a few details wrong or maybe even forgotten a step somewhere. I also left a couple of things open for you…

Formatting a high-density 1.44M floppy as a single- or double-density 400k/800k floppy works well enough, but you won't be able to reformat it back to 1.44M if you ever need to. Yo…

With the tape trick, I just had to get a whole bunch of 1.4 disks and eventually I found one that worked as 800k when taped. Good luck.

I have loads of 1.4mb floppies. I'll try Taping the whole. formatting as 800k, then formatting as 400k Probably will not work. But lets see.

If it works anything like the Amiga you can format a 1.4mb to 800k (and maybe 400k too). Just tape over the hole so it behaves like a double-density disk. Years ago I did that all …

Woah, Thanks for the awesome tutorial, I'll setup my IIci again Tomorrow ( I have to use my dads LCD because it is the only one which works with the IIci and the Mac/VGA Adaptor or…