but its not 1984 any more and yes I have been reading this thread, and video works uses a propitiatory format, so good luck figuring that one out! One would need to write a playe…

I'm not 100% sure I understand your point. In 1984, such a thing took hours and hours with 128K RAM, 400K discs and your Imagewriter printer with Thunderscan. Which explains why we…

The only way to get anything like full frame video on a 68000 was to literally scan each frame of video one at a time, dither it for 1-bit, and then string them together in an anim…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! Click to expand... I'm still laughing. You realize how much work it …

With a RAM upgrade to 1MB or more and an 800K floppy, short full screen animations were possible, such as these:http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Mac_Movies/Mac_Movies.html Cl…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! The Apple II music is awesome too!

Rodime were one of the worst makes of drive back in the day. I believe an early edition of The Macintosh Bible mentions Rodime as an unreliable drive. A simple Google search reveal…

That is indeed a very respectable first conquest. Well done, soldier!

Yeah, the SE FDHD upgrade involved replacing the IWM chip with a SWIM chip, as you said, as well as replacement ROMs.

The original 128 and 512 could do very little animation because of the lack of memory. About the only option was MacroMind's VideoWorks, which allowed animating a small software sp…

The original SE (4 SIMMs are angled) doesn't have much clearance for the motherboard, a SE30 with the 8 SIMM slots (that stick straight out) will not fit. The difference between a …

I would like to have a 1.44 MB floppy, but I think I read somewhere that it would require a logic board upgrade, and then I wouldn't be able to use a second built-in floppy. Can an…

Very nice! There's just something about these compact Macs that you can't describe until you use one. You could get addicted to them. I like how the external fits nicely under the …

I spotted that auction! Great job on the conquest!

I have that same Rodime drive on my Plus... it is indeed quite loud.

I bought this on eBay a few weeks ago and it arrived yesterday. It's an SE dual 800k (sticker on back says 1MB RAM, but it actually has 4 or 5), that came with a Rodime 20 Plus ext…

Yesterday I saw that they still had an LCIII, WGS 6150, LC, Color Classic, and SE on sale for $10 a pop in the back. Go Austin Computer Works! Click to expand... OMG, ARE YOU O…

I went back today. I think you confused the Classic for a Color Classic. Everything else listed is still there. I would like a classic mac, but I want one I can add ethernet to. I…

Yesterday I saw that they still had an LCIII, WGS 6150, LC, Color Classic, and SE on sale for $10 a pop in the back. Go Austin Computer Works! Click to expand... OMG, ARE YOU O…

If they have a color classic, I think I will make space for that. Actually I have a use for it. I may swing by this afternoon and see if it is still there.

@Redjack: Wait, you walked away from a $10 Colour Classic? :O 8-o :?:

I didn't see the Color Classic when I was there; maybe they brought it out after I cleared the shelf. I remember a couple years ago I saw a Color Classic set there for the bargain…

I was there yesterday and two weeks ago (visited my bro)! Last time, I got a IIci but decided against the IIsi and the LCIII, glad they went to good homes. When I was there Yesterd…

Mostly it is because I have too much clutter in the house and I don't have a good place to set it up. I figured I would let another collector give it a good home, instead of just …

I picked them up on Sunday. Someone should go and get the LC II, LC, WGS 6150, Classic, and SE that I didn't have room for; I'm lucky my girlfriend isn't shunning me as it is, and…