The Mac exploded with the introduction of expandable machines (you know upgrade slots those things Jobs hated), not the closed dead end compacts. Jobs was big into killing off the …

No. The Plus' Agency label is centered and the port indent area is double in height. Apple did that on the Plus to allow third party connectors which the original design forced App…

If Jobs never left Apple would have gone down the drain. Click to expand... Unknown_K, I disagree. Sculley didn't trust Jobs, but the very things that have made him and Apple …

I used a 300 Mhz Power Mac G3 to calculate Pi to 1 million digits, and IIRC, that took less than 3 hours. I should get that program and put it on the 8100.

That's a Plus rear bucket that's had the 512Ke labels stuck on it, no?

If Jobs never left Apple would have gone down the drain.

if Steve Jobs had not left Apple in 1985 there likely would never have been a Macintosh SE as we know it, and certainly not an SE/30. Click to expand... What do you think we'd …

This also reminds me of advice I give to everyone to whom we sell computers. Whenever you don't know the electrical of a location well, make sure you plug all of the accessories of…

I also run my workshop through an RCD - residual current device - in case any of the gear I am working on has faults. They measure the power throughput on the active line and compa…

How would the broken ethernet be restored apart from installing a card?

Hold on a tick, how exactly did they modify the port area? It looks custom to the Plus layout and doesn't look like the usual kludged together kind of mod. I don't think I have see…

I've gotten deals before.

Consider this before posting: Does every new topic have to turn into a rant about your favourite bugbear? Whether it is capitalism, socialism, planned obsolescence, Microsoft, Ap…

Very nicely scored! I assume that's a DA? I see that you have an original power supply from your other machine to restore this new one to functionality. If you think the ethernet…

If $35 exceeds one's budget for a vintage Mac, EBAY is certainly not the place to be shopping! I paid $25 plus shipping in the past simply for 128k ROMs pulled from a Mac Plus log…

Well, it went over my budget. I may want a //c mouse, but not *THAT* badly.

I wonder if calculating pi to some long number of digits would use up a lot of RAM... Click to expand... Not unless you want it to. Just for the **** of it, when I first got my…

A subject of some humorous debate on Cubeowner.com. What is a Cube? Original? Certainly. Hot-rodded? Those who have a "daily driver" cube have all hopped up the CPU and GPU, instal…

I have no intention whatsoever to bid on it, nor did I post that to encourage anyone here to bid on it. I was merely using it as an example when talking about the overuse of the w…

JDW, that auction is interesting... It's not TOO far from me (~160 mi,) so I think I'll bid on it. (And so we don't get into a bidding war, I bid an amount that will make price+s…

When I spotted this Mac 512ke auction, I couldn't help but remember this thread. The seller is basically selling a Mac Plus but he is pitching it heavily as a 512ke because he fee…

G4 has the original Rage128 AGP card with 16 MB RAM. It handled 1280x1024 at full color depth just fine. Click to expand... That card has been much maligned by many, but in my…

I don't mean to unnecessarily steer this discussion back on topic, but it's worth noting that most decent surge protectors have a ground indicator built-in... might be a worthwhile…

No problem. 73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

But imagine if instead of computers going to landfills because people got fed up with viruses and trojans it was actually not painful to reinstall Windows - how different would thi…