Well, I was at a rummage sale this morning and next to the old DVD players and broken-down printer, I found a cute little thing that unfolds into a keyboard, never saw anything lik…

Copied across from MacTalk Australia forums, written by myself, Michael aka. iMac600. Unlike over there you all probably remember my 512k with the fatal "FLUP" noise, and the defec…

Hoorah! Its here and its beautiful. I will post pictures tomorrow. It looks like it was never used, except for the fact it is missing the rear port door. The mouse clickers still f…

I thought that we didn't have rules on what a conquest is & I thought it's best this way.... If we are a 68k liberation army then any 68k machine that we liberate... I ju…

OK, I'll downgrade My IIcis fDD rarely formats my FD's correctly. It just says "Initialization failed" or "Initialaziton Failed because the disk is defective." HopeFully System 6…

sys7 wont work. it has a differant format window you might have to try a bunch of disks fefore it works.

6.0.8 works. i'll check sys 7

i forget if it will work with system 6 or not. i'll check.

Would 7.5.1 work or not. Probably not. I'll have to downgrade my IIci to 6.0.4 that came with it.

iirc, for a 400k floppy (not as reliable as with an 800k.400k one) take a 1.4 meg floppy and tape over the hole without the slidey thing in it. stick it into an old mac (iirc, sy…

OK I got it and unboxed it. Works great. It has a REALLY nice CRT. Bright and everything. The light in the FDD is on and is red ooohh. No boot floppy for it yet. It is in very …

So it's either that the two read/write heads in the Plus's drive are misaligned, and so only the lower one works when it's alone (hence the 400ks being read but not the 800ks)...or…

An "eleventy" conquest happened to me at least once: when I volunteered at a recycling drive and was able to literally intercept a very nice SE before it got put into the "truck of…

It booted from and ran the 400k system disks that shipped with my Macintosh 512k!!! Problem is: it spat out the 800k disks that I prepared for it on one of my SEs. Click to exp…

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…

Good to see that it arrived safely and works, despite the rusted power connector!

It boots!!! I was worried the FDD wouldn't work after a week and 2,000 miles in transit. I was wrong. It booted from and ran the 400k system disks that shipped with my Macintosh…

Lets see... I hope! } Nahh not really all the best. I am just happy i am getting a 512k.

384kb less than me!!! Click to expand... Ha, it's like golf, whoever has less wins. Actually this one may have more, with the memory upgrade it has installed. Still don't know …

Damn, you beat me! 384kb less than me!!! I am getting my 512k tomorrow, I need peripherals as well. And a boot floppy. I am so hyped up...

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…