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Am Moderator	posted 09-02-2001 08:07 PM You may continue your plan for attack here.
FireWire is fast Member	posted 09-02-2001 08:37 PM Ok soldiers. I am now working on a text-only prototype that will be optimized for 640480 screen resolutions. Maybe when I get more time (or some help from the rest of you!) we can get a version optimized for black and white 512384 screens...the adress for this new text-only version will be posted shortly... ------------------ Damn The Man! He's putting me down! Visit my site and stick it to The Man! FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated: Not enough
LiarXAgerate Member	posted 09-02-2001 08:51 PM hehe, my dad's workplace used to be Mac only, but they went dark side. I'm in the process of grabbing more of the orphaned guys, like a portrait display and an ImageWriter II. Right now I have liberated... A Mac SE FDHD with 4 MB RAM and a 20MB HD, as well as a 1987 Apple CD-SC! A Mac IIvx
~Coxy Member	posted 09-02-2001 10:00 PM Am, you know that posts don't get closed just becuase they are a bit long anymore? Not to be disrespectful or anything... ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
Am Moderator	posted 09-02-2001 10:10 PM I have a short attention span and a 25 MHz 68040. sue me.
FireWire is fast Member	posted 09-02-2001 10:18 PM quote: Originally posted by ~Coxy: Am, you know that posts don't get closed just becuase they are a bit long anymore? Not to be disrespectful or anything... heh, yeah, check out "The Apple Chain Story" over there in Anything Apple...its about 27 pages now there is now a "gateway page" for users to navigate to whatever version of the site they want (text, or image). the text version prototype is there as is the image one, but it is being revised and the new image one will be up tomorrow... http://homepage.mac.com/mla68k/index.html ...man i need some sleep (its 1:18am over here in ohio!) ------------------ Damn The Man! He's putting me down! Visit my site and stick it to The Man! FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated: Not enough [This message has been edited by FireWire is fast (edited 09-02-2001).] [This message has been edited by FireWire is fast (edited 09-02-2001).]
MacScuzzy Member	posted 09-03-2001 09:23 AM Pretty good! Now people with old SE's can enjoy the site to! ------------------ 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
~Coxy Member	posted 09-03-2001 05:14 PM I've started writing some content for the site, I reckjon that we need tons of stats for each old 68K and maybe even some early powermacs. What the content should have: -EVERY stat on all old macs: I scour a few programs/sites and books. -DETAILED instructions on opening up old macs, with pictures too. The info on this is lacking from the net right now. -Speed Tests in Speedometer 4. -The number of them owned by recruits. (When you join or get a new mac, the total is updated) -Info, links, what to use them for, hacks, etc. ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
The Power To BURN!!!! Member	posted 09-03-2001 05:22 PM quote: Originally posted by ~Coxy: I've started writing some content for the site, I reckjon that we need tons of stats for each old 68K and maybe even some early powermacs. What the content should have: -EVERY stat on all old macs: I scour a few programs/sites and books. -DETAILED instructions on opening up old macs, with pictures too. The info on this is lacking from the net right now. -Speed Tests in Speedometer 4. -The number of them owned by recruits. (When you join or get a new mac, the total is updated) -Info, links, what to use them for, hacks, etc. There is this program called MacTracker that has info about every Mac computer made. I don't where I got it, but you can get it at Version Tracker. http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mo de=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOS&search=MacTracker&x=4&y=8 This looks like it would save you alot of time looking up each mac. I need to learn how to spell. ------------------ Just because Windows users vastly outnumber Mac users, numbers alone do not denote a higher form of life. Cockroaches outnumber humans many times over, and no one says a cockroach is better than a human. [This message has been edited by The Power To BURN!!!! (edited 09-03-2001).]
FireWire is fast Member	posted 09-03-2001 07:20 PM quote: Originally posted by ~Coxy: I've started writing some content for the site, I reckjon that we need tons of stats for each old 68K and maybe even some early powermacs. What the content should have: -EVERY stat on all old macs: I scour a few programs/sites and books. -DETAILED instructions on opening up old macs, with pictures too. The info on this is lacking from the net right now. -Speed Tests in Speedometer 4. -The number of them owned by recruits. (When you join or get a new mac, the total is updated) -Info, links, what to use them for, hacks, etc. Thankyou! Finally somebody helping me!! Jeez! ------------------ Damn The Man! He's putting me down! Visit my site and stick it to The Man! FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated: Not enough
marchie Member	posted 09-03-2001 07:33 PM Lists of programmes to be used on each system, categorized by type, with reviews/suggestions by Liberators as to their use, problems, and good aspects. A page of links to OTHER sites that have the info 68k Mac Liberators and Users use or would find helpful. I would suggest jagshouse.com and lowendmac.com as I have found them of GREAT help with getting some of my older Macs working. -Marchie ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
jhota Member	posted 09-03-2001 07:47 PM staggers in SOR! salutes leftenant jhota, reporting for duty, sor! anyway, current 68ks: Plus (Beige), SE, Classic II, Color Classic, IIcx, IIci, IIsi (x2), IIfx, MacTV, Quadra 650, Duo 230, Duo 280. there's another on the way, it's either a SE or SE/30. i don't know which. the MacTV, Q650, and Duo 280 are "everyday" computers. also have: several boxes of vintage hardware, various and sundry books, magazines and manuals. (including, but not limited to: MacUser, Macworld and MacWeek back issues, covering the early to mid 90's; the famous Matt Groening "Life In Hell" Apple sales brochure, some AppleFacts booklets, etc.) ------------------ Hoc futui quam lude militorum.... [i hate typos] [This message has been edited by jhota (edited 09-03-2001).]
barnman Member	posted 09-03-2001 10:44 PM It is nice to see so many people loving their old Macs. I run a high school publications lab and take donations all the time. We have a fairly large supply of 68k Macs although many of them do little or simply word process and surf the net. I do honor our PowerBooks though. We have a total of 31 PowerBook 1X0, Duos, and 5X0 laptops. I check them out to my students and they use them for typing copy for our newspaper and yearbook. They are indispensable to us. If you would like to donate an old PowerBook (whole, parts, working or not), we will accept it and provide you with a donation receipt. We take the resell value from everymac.com were old PowerBook prices are still quite high. Join the cause and ship us your old PowerBooks! They will go to good use! And you will receive a tax writeoff. Email me today. Barnman
marchie Member	posted 09-04-2001 10:15 AM Grr... I can't get my Duo 230 to go online. I'm not sure that the internal modem is any good. I want to check out the website on it! There's just something that feels wrong about viewing it with the G4. -Marchie ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
~Coxy Member	posted 09-04-2001 04:38 PM We need to have a huge surever full of great old shareware as well. Another idea for the site: everyone with a particular kind of Mac should run a Speedo 4 benchmark set on it. ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
CharlesJR Member	posted 09-11-2001 03:24 PM Hey folks! I LOVE you guys! Great idea. I don't really rate (only two SE's for me, but they work just fine, thanks). Two things... First, I've gots TONS of old 68*** software for those looking for it. It's not Shareware, but it works just fine. Second, I just saw an article in the latest issue of MacWorld (it doesn't seem to be referenced online yet). It seems Andy Ihnatko must be a charter (or at least honorary) member of the 68K Mac Liberation Army. A quote from his closing comments: quote: And although I will store this Lisa away with the rest of the group, I take some very small pride in having saved another distinguished member of the Mac family from the scrap heap. Great article. It'll make ya smile! CharlesJR
marchie Member	posted 09-11-2001 05:23 PM Hey Charles... Can you send me an e-mail? I'd be interested to know what software you have available... mad_ian@excite.com -Marchie ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
maclover5 Member	posted 09-11-2001 10:37 PM quote: Originally posted by ~Coxy: We need to have a huge surever full of great old shareware as well. Another idea for the site: everyone with a particular kind of Mac should run a Speedo 4 benchmark set on it. I have a few interesting pieces of 68k shareware which i still use on a regular basis. Email me for more info ------------------ Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68ks Liberated so far: 5 and counting. My AIM screenname is iMac G4 lover
marchie Member	posted 09-12-2001 08:13 AM Hey... this is cool. I'm posting this from CyberDog in OS 9.2.1. the MacAddict website for the most part WORKS in Cyberdog 2.0, which is good for vintage Mac users. The new website we're makeing also works well in Cyberdog. ~Marchie ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
~Coxy Member	posted 09-12-2001 05:32 PM Cool. ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
CharlesJR Member	posted 09-13-2001 05:52 PM Hey marchie... Now I'm sad I sent you email and no reply? Didn't ya like my list. There's some cool stuff on there! CharlesJR
Flashbackman Member	posted 09-14-2001 04:11 AM I served as a ParaMedic at the battle of Fairfield MRI. Hell, I've liberated so many Macs I should join this group too. I worked at Material Recycling Industries and a little known fact is that all Mac from about the Performa period onwards are very green computers. The Mac is very easy to strip down to basic parts. We would seperate the mac and end up with bins full of... CRT tubes= glass CRT coils are full of copper plastic from case and monitors = PET plastic all metal parts are recycled transformers = (mostly) copper Motherboards and other components are not too green as the circuitboard is full of chemicals, but these are recycled for gold and other precious metals. This is often yeilds more value than actual mining! We would sell a 40' truck size bin for around $30k aussie dollars. RAM, disks CDROM drives and other re-usable parts were resold, although the sheer number of Macs we had meant that often even these were recycled I can't take it any more, oh the humanity! breaks down sobbing On the bright side all the PowerBooks and most PPC's upwards of a 7x00 were reconfigured and to the best of my knowledge still packed on pallets waiting to be sold. I've got lots of stuff to contribute to the site, how much space do you have ~Coxy? I reckon I've got about 100MB worth of PDF's and information and stuff for 68k Macs. Look, I changed my sig too! ------------------ ParaMedic 68k Macintosh Liberation Army bucketloads Macs liberated!
~Coxy Member	posted 09-15-2001 04:43 AM I'm not the one hosting the site, right now it's on iTools, so there's only room for 20 MB. ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
Flashbackman Member	posted 09-15-2001 05:19 AM So who is hosting the site? ------------------ ParaMedic 68k Macintosh Liberation Army bucketloads Macs liberated!
FireWire is fast Member	posted 09-15-2001 08:58 PM I am the grand and mighty webmaster. http://homepage.mac.com/mla68k ------------------ Damn The Man! He's putting me down! Visit my site and stick it to The Man! FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated: Not enough
vmarks Member	posted 09-17-2001 08:49 PM Today I liberated four (4) LC II's in perfect condition. It felt good to be back in the ranks, after having to ditch my SE/30 and Quadra 800 when I came under fire while on my tour in Israel. (You think I'm kidding? I spent 2 years in Tel-Aviv, but I had to leave, or come under real fire in the Israeli Defense Force, so I gifted the Macs to university students and came back to the states. Momma didn't raise no targets!) I own PDF technical service manuals for all of the 68k Macintosh machines. Firewire is Fast, now you know my full 68k history, my rank's gotta be better than private 2nd class- I'm bucking for at least a Sargeant, or Officer's school- Victor Marks lvmarks@mac.com 4 LC II's 3 iMacs 1 G4/400 [This message has been edited by vmarks (edited 09-17-2001).]
marchie Member	posted 09-17-2001 09:40 PM Is it ok with Apple Legal to post those service manuals on websites, or in other ways distribute them? I know I'd like to get my paws on some... -Marchie The new MLA68k Webmaster ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
FireWire is fast Member	posted 09-18-2001 09:13 AM quote: Originally posted by vmarks: Today I liberated four (4) LC II's in perfect condition. It felt good to be back in the ranks, after having to ditch my SE/30 and Quadra 800 when I came under fire while on my tour in Israel. (You think I'm kidding? I spent 2 years in Tel-Aviv, but I had to leave, or come under real fire in the Israeli Defense Force, so I gifted the Macs to university students and came back to the states. Momma didn't raise no targets!) I own PDF technical service manuals for all of the 68k Macintosh machines. Firewire is Fast, now you know my full 68k history, my rank's gotta be better than private 2nd class- I'm bucking for at least a Sargeant, or Officer's school- Victor Marks lvmarks@mac.com 4 LC II's 3 iMacs 1 G4/400 [This message has been edited by vmarks (edited 09-17-2001).] the under fire thing deserves lt. 1st class ------------------ Damn The Man! He's putting me down! Visit my site and stick it to The Man! FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated: Not enough
vmarks Member	posted 09-18-2001 09:50 AM quote: Originally posted by marchie: Is it ok with Apple Legal to post those service manuals on websites, or in other ways distribute them? I know I'd like to get my paws on some... -Marchie The new MLA68k Webmaster I think it's probably not appropriate to redistribute them in a blatant public fashion, if you want to avoid Apple Legal issues. However, I wouldn't have a problem distributing a CD with them all on it, as long as it's not something that's going to be widely advertised- I don't like raising the ire of lawyers. Victor Marks lvmarks@mac.com
~Coxy Member	posted 09-18-2001 04:46 PM Reckon macaddict would off to host our website? www.68kmla.macaddict.com or something? maybe applefritter would do it... ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
marchie Member	posted 09-19-2001 07:18 AM Somehow I doubt MacAddict would help us out in that respect. I wonder what it takes to be a part of the MacAddict Network tho... -Marchie ------------------ -------------------- Why not go mad? Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs liberated: 8
~Coxy Member	posted 09-19-2001 05:12 PM Maybe if we get the site looking good enough and with enough content, after all they hosted ATaT when their DSL was down, and 68kmla won't take up too much bandwidth. Petition, anyone? ------------------ ~Coxy - Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00007 Macs liberated.
jesterofbob Member	posted 09-23-2001 02:48 AM i like this idea. much kudos. If you need any help, I might be able to lend some assistance (I'm not TOO skillful, but I'm willing to try almost anything and/or just throw some ideas around). I also have a few old games that might work with some old systems. contact me if you want... AIM: klyeprc email: klyeprc@netscape.net OR klyeprc@yahoo.com
Hikaru Member	posted 09-23-2001 09:57 PM what rank is this list worth to ya Power Book 170 classic II (Lacie radio tuner, 20Mb external HDD ) SE/30 mac + 2x SE FDHD 2SE Performa 575 LCIII 2x IIci 2x IIsi (and Im in the process of Liberating a 266 iMac from a friend of Mine who bought into the Mhz myth) Parts scads of extra cables a pile of Keyboards a pile of Mice ADB I and II several printers external Appel CD rom and literally boxes of old software (Im trying to catalog it all) let me know tyty ------------------ Capt.Hikaru Motenai 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Covert Ops. Total Macs rescued 0016 [this post has commited and illegal operation and will be shut down] blueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblueblue
redghost Member	posted 09-25-2001 02:57 PM I feel so humble and a virgin, but have been liberating a few older macs over the past three years. -- here is my platoon (so far) 6x Mac plus 8x SE 5x SE HD 3x SE/30 2x Classic 2x IIfx 4x IIsi 5x IIcx 3x IIci 2x Color Classic 2x LC 1x LCII 2x LC 575 2x LC 550 4x Quadra 610 3x Quadra 650 1x Quadra 900 1x Quadra 800 6x Quadra 630 2x Mac Portable 1x PB 145 2x PB150 1x PB180 1x Duo 280c 1x Duo 2300c 2x 7100 PPC 4x Performa 5300 1x Performa 6400 2x PPC 9500 2x PPC 7200 1x PPC 7300 2x Newton 110 1x Newton 120 1x Netwon 2000u I used to have a Pippen, but my kid was way to fond of it and really cranked on the controllers and was not nice to the software, so I had to allow somebody who would worship it, take it home. I think the few macs I have would at least allow me a rank as NCO or maybe just common deck hand... let me know.

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