What I've received as of late...

[volvo242gt]

Last month, a coworker of my cousin emailed a bunch of people at their office, mentioning that he was getting out of the computer collecting game. My cousin passed on the info to me and got me in touch with his coworker. So far, I've received:

1 original Apple ][ (powers up, but issues with the keyboard)

2 Apple ][+ machines (both with issues, one powers up, the other I suspect had a dead power supply - kept the board)

5 Apple //e machines (two either dead or almost dead, three work - kept the working ones and parted the other two)

2 Apple //c machines (one ROM 255, one ROM 0 - kept the ROM 0 and gave the ROM 255 to a buddy who had one in HS)

1 Apple /// system with Profile and monitor /// (keyboard had a non-working shift key - also didn't receive any software, and noticed that the self-test showed some bad RAM chips - traded it for my IIci and some other goodies)

1 Mac 128k (powers up, needs keyboard cable to be fully useable - already created a System 1.1 boot disk for it)

2 Mac 512's (both powered up, one was doing the perma-HappyMac, the other needed a floppy drive)

1 Mac Plus (didn't power up, but swapped board and floppy drive into the perma-HappyMac 512 chassis - was originally a 128k that got upgraded to a Plus - now powers up, but needs analog board attention)

4 Mac SE's (three functional, one parts - am keeping two, got rid of the parts unit, and will be selling one of the functional units)

4 Mac SE/30's (two functional, one with SimasiMac, the fourth with the exploded PRAM battery - am keeping one, selling the other functional unit, and got rid of the other two)

2 Mac II's (one dead, gave the other to a friend - eventually gave him the dead one as well)

1 Mac IIcx (dead, kept some parts, scrapped the rest - lots of corrosion on stuff inside)

1 Mac IIci (dead, kept the drive for the machine I traded the /// for)

1 Mac IIfx (exploded PRAM battery - friend who got the II's from me has it now)

1 Mac Classic (worked for a while, then went SImasiMac - pulled hard drive for one of the SE's, has 6.0.7 on it)

1 Mac Classic II (SimasiMac as soon as it was powered up - junked)

1 Mac LC with 40MB hard drive

1 Mac LCIII with Quadra 605 board and a 500MB drive

1 Mac Quadra 660av (works - soon to receive a Piltdown Man 6100/50 board and a 3GB drive that was in an old 7100/80 that I owned many years ago)

I also received in the haul a few disk ][ drives, a couple Franklin ACE floppy drives, a M1212 Macintosh Color Display for the IIci, an Apple monitor //, a monitor //c, Microsoft Softcard in box with ProFile interface (never opened), an Extended Keyboard II, a couple M0115 Extended Keyboards, a Mac Plus keyboard, a Mac 128/512 keyboard, HD 20SC hard drive (case now holds a Quantum Prodrive 80S half-height drive). Plus, I received some Atari computers, which went to the Mac guy at RE-PC, since that's his cup 'o tea...

From RE-PC (the main Seattle, WA store), I've received my IIci with 20MB of RAM, Radius PrecisionColor 8xj, Daystar 64k cache card; a NOS IIci motherboard, a IIci that wouldn't power up, but that was complete (so not the one I scrapped), the Piltdown Man motherboard, a M0116 standard keyboard, ADB Mouse II, Asante MC3NB ethernet card, plus a couple PRAM batteries. Everything was free. Including the stuff from RE-PC.

-J

 

[Cosmo]

That is just insane, great conquest for sure! If you come across extra Apple ][ joystick, mouse(+card), etc let me know

 

[MultiFinder]

Bloody hell mate, that's quite the haul! And all for free! Use it well, and let us know what you do with it all!

 

[volvo242gt]

Thanks, guys.

Get to go back up to Everett, WA this afternoon to the guy's house. He has a TRaSh80 that a friend wants, and, sounds like he also has another Mac system in his basement. Am hoping he has some more Apple II peripherals, though. Need to get some later floppy drives for the platinum IIe, that way, it won't look strange, like it would with a pair of disk ]['s either sitting next to it or on top.

Plans are to purge some of the extras. Already got rid of the 512's. Made a $50 profit on those. Then, of course, those machines that won't boot, or even power on, have been recycled, after pulling useful parts out of them. I didn't originally plan to keep the Quadra 660av, but with the acquisition of that prototype 6100 board, it's staying. Will be nice to have a Nubus PowerMac on hand.

-J

 

[fairchild]

Awesome score! Waiting for a nice apple II to show up around here...

 

[volvo242gt]

More stuff...

Two DuoDisk drives

Three 400k floppy drives

a 5.25" PC drive for use with my early SE, which has the PC compatibility card installed

another ProFile drive

an external 80MB SCSI drive

boxed Mac II

boxed M0115 keyboard

A9M0331 mouse

Macintosh high-res monochrome monitor

Radius Color Pivot LE with card

Personal LaserWriter (not sure which version - suspect it's the NT, though)

Apple monitor //c

Apple IIgs with 1MB memory expansion card

Also received a CoCo 3 with accessories, and a TRS-80 all-in-one machine. Still a few Mac/Apple II monitors, some Apple II clone machines, and an original ImageWriter.

-J

 

[Cosmo]

And it's only getting better! Hope you have the space :lol:

 

[macosten]

Oh wow. That's quite a haul. Nice!

 

[volvo242gt]

Thanks... Going to be fun bringing the Pivot upstairs... Sucker must weigh at least as much as my 21" Mitsu monitor that's connected to my G4.

-J

 

[krye]

Speechless.

 

[volvo242gt]

-J

 

[directive0]

This thread screams for PICS!!!

 

[volvo242gt]

I'll see what I can do... Some of the stuff isn't here anymore.

SE/30 that I'm keeping:



One of the SE's:



Main IIci:



Beige unenhanced //e (with a little bit of Maine Coon Cat in the corner of the pic)



Platinum IIe:



Friend of mine has a pic of the back of a Volvo 245 filled with Mac and Apple hardware. Trying to get him to upload it to his flickr, so I can link to it...

-J

 

[fairchild]

Amazing score! After seeing your pic of that IIci, i want one; one of Apple's classiest designs!

 

[volvo242gt]

They're cool machines...

Anyway, some more pics...

SE with the 5.25" PC drive (anyone know where I can find the software for said drive?):



Apple ][, Mac II, and Quadra 660av:



SE FDHD and bagged Mac 128K:



IIgs, //c, //e, ][+, Mac IIci, and a couple spare boards on top of IIci - I do have the programmer's switch assembly for the IIci, just not installed at the moment - boards are a ][+ motherboard, spare IIci board, and PDM prototype board:



Extra disk ][ floppy drives - have two more in a box that's in the garage. Bag contains some analog boards that need rechipping:



Need to clean this disaster of a room before I set more stuff up. Thinking I might get a second table, so I can have more than two or so computers set up at a time.

-J

 

[directive0]

Thanks so much for the pics. I dunno about you guys but they get me through the day when I'm using modern machines at work and want some classic-mac porn.

What's the game playing here?

 

[volvo242gt]

Super Tetris. Got it originally for my first Mac, a Plus. Used on most of my machines up through my 7100/80, but lost the floppies sometime around then. Found that someone had uploaded the files to the Macintosh Garden. Downloaded them, and installed the software on the IIci, one of the SE's, and my SE/30. Also have the B&W version on my G4. There's no sound on AV Macs or PowerMacs, due to the Sound Manager in the ROMs. Incompatible. Game works fine otherwise, if a little too fast on a 1.2GHz equipped G4 Digital Audio...

Latest items to be received are: Apple 3.5 Drive #A9M0106, which will be upgraded with a FDHD mechanism, then used with the IIci, the SE series computers, the Plus, my IIgs, and my main IIe. Should be here next Tuesday. The other item that's on its way is a copy of the Connectix HandOff II program launching software. Similar to AliasMenu, but without the folder containing all the Aliases in the System Folder. Haven't used it in years, but remember liking it a lot.

-J

 

[volvo242gt]

Welll, I guess I didn't need to create a System 1.1 floppy for the 128k. Started it up and let it eject the transport disk. Was greeted with the normal sound from the 800k/1.4MB Sony floppy drive eject motor. Popped in my 6.0.8 System Tools disk. Booted right up. Chose About The Finder. Reported back with 512k RAM. So, the motherboard in the 128 is not original, and is a 512Ke board. Oh well.

At least, now I know that I don't have to keep early versions of the system software lying around.

-J

 

[mcdermd]

Is it an actual ke board or an upgraded 128k board? I guess either way you'd need the smaller ROMs to restore it and those seem to be the hardest part to get a hold of.