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Topic: I liberated a mac too! (kinda)
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FireWire is fast
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posted 08-24-2001 08:52 PM
The greek church near my house was having a festival so I was over there and saw that in the basement there was a garage sale type setup. I wandered over to the electronics section and there it was! Facing the wall was a ColorClassic! A mac i've wanted for so long! Heh, the funny thing the label said "$5 as is" and right next to it was an SE FDHD that had a keyboard and mouse for 50 dollars! ha!Well i got the ColorClassic and fire it up...4Mb RAM 80 mb HD, Word Perfect 2.0, Some vegas casino thing, and wheel of fortune. There also was Color super tetris but it asks questions found only in the manual and if you get it wrong, it quits! can anybody direct me to how to disable that in ResEdit? oh well... It was funny to see the faces of the people when i walked by to bring it to the car heh one person thought it was a TV. hehe ------------------
Damn that Man again - he's putting me down! http://homepage.mac.com/r68040k "You guys go ahead. I need to stay here and...uh...guard the parking lot"
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Mouseboy38
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posted 08-24-2001 08:54 PM
He who dies with the most Macs wins.
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FireWire is fast
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posted 08-24-2001 08:56 PM
so true, my friend, so true------------------
Damn that Man again - he's putting me down! http://homepage.mac.com/r68040k "You guys go ahead. I need to stay here and...uh...guard the parking lot"
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MacScuzzy
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posted 08-24-2001 09:06 PM
Yes! Score! We should make a Mac army and go around liberating poor old 68K Macs  ------------------
Spring is sprung, fall has fell, winters here and it's colder then usual
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FireWire is fast
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posted 08-25-2001 05:04 PM
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Originally posted by MacScuzzy:
Yes! Score! We should make a Mac army and go around liberating poor old 68K Macs
Maybe we should go incognito...walk around in trench coats and dark glasses...if someone asks us if that ColorClassic is a TV - we say yes.  Oh yeah I was looking inside the tetris folder and saw an erraneously named generic document so i deleted it. Then when I fired up tetris, it didn't ask me questions about Russia found only in the manual. ------------------
Damn that Man again - he's putting me down! http://homepage.mac.com/r68040k "You guys go ahead. I need to stay here and...uh...guard the parking lot"
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Erik Stiegler
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posted 08-25-2001 05:56 PM
68K Liberation Army...Last week I acquired a Macintosh Portable. I remember the first time I saw one of those things. Sure, it was huge, but the screen was sooooo good. The screens on all other portables were just crap in comparison. I really wanted one bad after seeing it, but, they were like five thousand bucks, which was a little beyond my student worker paycheck. So it's very neat finally having one. The even cooler bit is, it is the very same machine I though was so great about ten years ago. It's still in excellent condition, and even has the boxes for the extra battery & charger. Awesome.
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MajorMatt
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posted 08-25-2001 06:14 PM
I, too, got a color classic dirt cheap - $10. What a steal, its quite a computer.
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FireWire is fast
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posted 08-25-2001 06:27 PM
Hmm, 68k Liberation Army standard-issue soldier field equipment list1) 50 dollars (for purchase of 10-20 macintosh computers, 680x0 only) 2) torx screw driver with very long handle (for mac crackin') 3) copies of every version of system 6 (for booting up SEs w/o hard disks) 4) 2*4 piece of wood with 10" nail driven through it (for use when people think the compact mac you're carrying is a TV) ------------------
Damn that Man again - he's putting me down! http://homepage.mac.com/r68040k "You guys go ahead. I need to stay here and...uh...guard the parking lot"
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goMac
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posted 08-25-2001 06:30 PM
I have Super Tetris color! I got it with my Quadra 605! I hope I still have the manual...brb.
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MacScuzzy
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posted 08-25-2001 07:41 PM
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Spring is sprung, fall has fell, winters here and it's colder then usual 68K Macintosh Liberation Army member
Total 68K Macs liberated:5
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FireWire is fast
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posted 08-25-2001 07:48 PM
ooh i changed my sig too!------------------
FireWire is fast
Lt. 1st class
68K Macintosh Liberation Army [This message has been edited by FireWire is fast (edited 08-25-2001).]
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MacScuzzy
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posted 08-25-2001 07:53 PM
Cool! CHARGE!!!------------------
Spring is sprung, fall has fell, winters here and it's colder then usual Brigadier MacScuzzy
68K Macintosh Liberation Army
Total 68K Macs liberated:5 [This message has been edited by MacScuzzy (edited 08-25-2001).]
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maclover5
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posted 08-26-2001 03:43 AM
check it out! ------------------
Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Total 68ks Liberated so far: 4 and counting. My AIM screenname is iMac G4 lover
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~Coxy
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posted 08-26-2001 04:48 AM
Was it Phrase Craze Plus?
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LeeMac
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posted 08-26-2001 12:25 PM
Pvt 1st class LeeMac reporting for duty, SIR!!!!!!
Mission: to rescue all old Macs form impending doom!!!!!! CHARGE!!!!!------------------
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
pvt 1st class "Remember! You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever!" - Herb Anderson, age 90
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~Coxy
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posted 08-26-2001 10:42 PM
Cool new sig for me, too:------------------
~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
00007 Macs liberated.
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marchie
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posted 08-26-2001 10:45 PM
New sig.May we now raise our Tork 15's in reverance to the SCSI gods, and pray. -Marchie ------------------
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Why not go mad?
Chaplain Marchie
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
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Vampyros
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posted 08-26-2001 10:59 PM
i dig this Mac Liberation Army thing as much as the next guy... and i'm all for it... until... that is... i hear someone on the street say "The First Rule of the Mac Liberation Army is that you don't talk about the mac Liberation Army" if that ever happen i think i'm gonna curl up into a ball and rock back and forth till i am sure that I am not Tyler Durden. Oh... and as for the Macs i have Liberated
1)SE
1)SE-30
1)Classic
1)Powerbook 140
1)Powerbook 520
1)Quadra (in transit, i'm not sure the model, my friend is giving it to me)
1)Powerbook 520c (in transit) (total 68k Mac Liberated 7) Vampyros
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FireWire is fast
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posted 03-10-2002 07:21 PM
*bump*Sorry, I just had to do that :-D We've come a long way from August 24th, 2001... ------------------
FireWire is fast
4-star General & beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justiceś
68k Macintosh Liberation Army (forums)
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proletarian_mob
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posted 03-11-2002 07:58 AM
Here's my haul from a local school district that was GIVING stuff away:1 SE/30
1 Classic II
1 Mac II (doesn't work)
1 Mac II ci
1 LC II
1 LC III
1 Quadra 605
1 Quadra 630
1 Quadra 660 AV
1 Performa 575
1 Performa 6300
1 PowerMac 7200/120 (doesn't work)
1 PowerMac 5400/180 I could've hauled away more, but went for a diverse selection. Considering my home Mac is a Performa 6200, I'm a happy man.
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Trash80toG-4
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posted 03-11-2002 10:32 AM
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Originally posted by proletarian_mob:
I could've hauled away more, but went for a diverse selection. Considering my home Mac is a Performa 6200, I'm a happy man.
great haul! nice multiple 68kLiberation and a PPC upgrade too! good luck getting that 7200 up!jt
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maclover5
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posted 03-11-2002 10:19 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Trash80toG-4:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by proletarian_mob:
[b]I could've hauled away more, but went for a diverse selection. Considering my home Mac is a Performa 6200, I'm a happy man.
great haul! nice multiple 68kLiberation and a PPC upgrade too! good luck getting that 7200 up!jt [/B][/QUOTE] Yeah! Now that you've successfully liberated some 68ks, i suggest you click on that handy-dandy little link in my sig, at which time you will be automagically transported to 68k Heaven, at which you can brag about your finds even more! ------------------
Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Total 68ks Liberated so far: 5 and counting. Moderator of the 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Forums My AIM screenname is iMac G4 lover
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marchie
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posted 03-21-2002 02:29 PM
I bought TWO Quadra 950's for $1 each today!Both work, but specs are as yet unknown. Hard drves, floppy, no CD ROM, but in both all the memory slots are filled. One has a pair of NuBus cards with WEIRD connections on them. One has an EXTERNAL 50pin ribbon cable connector, and the other has some kind of small Centronics. Inside the case, they are joined together with a 50Pin ribbon cable, that has 2 other leads on it, so I might have 2 cards in a 4 card set. NO CLUE what these are yet. ~Marchie ------------------
~Chaplain Marchie
[url=]68k Macintosh Liberation Army[/url] Holder of the Compact Mac -
-Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head
[i]-Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip
~~"We are all Mad here"~~
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FireWire is fast
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posted 03-21-2002 02:48 PM
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Originally posted by marchie:
I bought TWO Quadra 950's for $1 each today!Both work, but specs are as yet unknown. Hard drves, floppy, no CD ROM, but in both all the memory slots are filled. One has a pair of NuBus cards with WEIRD connections on them. One has an EXTERNAL 50pin ribbon cable connector, and the other has some kind of small Centronics. Inside the case, they are joined together with a 50Pin ribbon cable, that has 2 other leads on it, so I might have 2 cards in a 4 card set. NO CLUE what these are yet. ~Marchie
AHH!!! can't....contain...jelousy.... *head explodes*
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cinemafia
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posted 03-21-2002 03:33 PM
Damn you, Marchie!!! Oh and hey...is anybody else able to get to www.68kMLA.com? It seems to have been down all day.
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Trash80toG-4
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posted 03-21-2002 07:44 PM
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Originally posted by cinemafia:
Damn you, Marchie!!! Oh and hey...is anybody else able to get to www.68kMLA.com? It seems to have been down all day.
yup, has been, i get the heading and clicking members brings that up, clicking last post gives shaktiman, searching "a" for all members
posts since yesterday says about 4;52 for his last post as i recall, nada since. took screen shots of above and of error on lc.com homepage also.jt
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marchie
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posted 03-22-2002 07:31 AM
Well, the 2 mysterious cards seem to be National Instruments 488.2 interfae cards.. whioch is the GPIB interface.. which it seems is for ocilloscopes, voltmeters and other such electronics equipment.COOL! I've been wanting something like this for years, so they are MINE.. ALL MINE!! This one 950 I'm working with has a 400MB hard drive and 40 MB of RAM. ~Marchie
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cinemafia
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posted 03-22-2002 07:45 AM
www.68kMLA.com is still down today, although it definitely seems like a server problem with Literature Classics. It won't even load any of our forums...Oh and Marchie, I've seen those N.I. GPIB Nubus cards listed for $300-$500 on eBay...they're quite rare!
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Trash80toG-4
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posted 03-22-2002 12:26 PM
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Originally posted by cinemafia:
www.68kMLA.comOh and Marchie, I've seen those N.I. GPIB Nubus cards listed for $300-$500 on eBay...they're quite rare!
very cool! hey, cine', what are LaserWriter IIg logic boards going for on eBay? how do you check such things out and is it a pain to get set up and sell stuff there? jt p.s. i wonder if the appearance of 68kMLA.com is the problem with the forums lately or if it is just coincidental? [This message has been edited by Trash80toG-4 (edited 03-22-2002).]
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FireWire is fast
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posted 03-22-2002 08:03 PM
the forums server thingy has always been flaky...this time it went into overdriver...------------------
FireWire is fast
4-star General & beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justiceś
68k Macintosh Liberation Army (forums)
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lateralis
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posted 03-22-2002 08:49 PM
moment of silence over here. a year ago, i lost my quadra 605 in an apartment fire... {{{sobbing }}}}} still have my powerbook 520c but {{{blubbering}}}} it's just NOT THE SAME!!!
lateralis
www.combyourface.com [This message has been edited by lateralis (edited 03-22-2002).]
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~Coxy
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posted 03-23-2002 05:23 AM
The forums went down, then the whole server... grr...------------------
~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!)
13 68k Macs out of 16.
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