Plus with HDD

[HAL2001]

By the way. "Psych" doesn't stand for physics but for psychology....

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Well first of all, that is my first offer, not bid. If it goes up I might make another offer.

Second, I paid 15€ two years ago for a mint, working Plus (and 8 months ago I paid 10 euros for a sorry looking SE/30 with accessories). I know, the price for a Plus might have gone up a bit since then. It didn't come with a mouse or keyboard but at least it wasn't made out of bits. We still can't tell for sure if that started out in life as a 512ke ED or as a Plus ED. Something was hacked together some time ago. If it was originally a 512k converted to a Plus, then why does it have a Plus ED bezel? That wasn't part of the upgrade. If it started out in life as Plus, then why does it have a 512k rear end?

The rear cover is butchered. Ok, if some people think that injects character to a machine, I personally don't. What I can appreciate though about that Plus is the fact that it was used quite a lot by people doing some actual interesting work on it (compared to the zero mileage 128ks that often pop up on ebay)

If the mac museum accepts it, good for them. It's not as if was as rare as a Lisa 1...

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Pshrink/Shrink = slang for Psych/Psychology/Psychologist

West Virginia is definitely a few miles off into the sunset from there, but that was just a cheap Banjo shot.

 

[Daniël]

He's now thinking of donating it to the Apple Museum in The Netherlands by the way.

Orvelte, right? I actually put up an ad looking for broken Macintoshes and they actually responded to me. I never heard of the AMN before, now suddenly I get contacted by them and see it being mentioned! Strange how those things work!

 

[HAL2001]

Yes. Orvelte. Go and take a look. It's small but definitely worth it.

 

[mactjaap]

Nice find! I'm also living in the Netherlands and I estimate a nice price would be around 50 euro ($50) .
 
I personally think it is a kind of computer archeology finding. Don’t buy this if you like a shiny unused Macintosh, but only if you like the way people worked with these computers in de 80-ties.A new Plus was to expensive so some DIY was done.
I don't mind owning computers like these!
 
It also looks like the Universities of Amsterdam just loved to “brand” their computers. And in Dutch we would say “brandmerken”. So with real hot irons…..
I have an old Plus with the name SARA on it. This is the old mathematics centre of the Uva:
 

SARA was founded in 1971 under the name Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA) by the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the stichting Mathematisch Centrum (now Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica). Initially SARA’s work focussed on data processing activities for the three founders

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[HAL2001]

I refurbished a Classic once for a professor in Maastricht. It had research software on it that the ICT department of the University couldn't translate to Windows. The professor was over the moon when he saw his old piece of software working again. It was very satisfying.

 

[HAL2001]

This is also interesting, yet expensive:

http://link.marktplaats.nl/m1136391629

 

[Daniël]

Yes. Orvelte. Go and take a look. It's small but definitely worth it.

The owner invited me to come over to talk in person about that potential acquisition, so I'll plan a visit in the upcoming spring break. I heard they have a TAM and PowerMac G4 Cube on display, two Macs I haven't seen in person before, which I really would like to change

This is also interesting, yet expensive:

http://link.marktplaats.nl/m1136391629

There really have been a few quite rare Macs on Marktplaats recently, it seems. Several TAMs, a PowerMac G4 Cube, a Color Classic in need of repair, and now a Macintosh XL! If I wasn't a poor student...

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Cookie Monster pics again needed.

 

[Daniël]

Macintosh XL Lisa in question:

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

THX, that brings back great memories. I almost bought an XL from Sun Remarketing back in the day. The 9" Periscope of my SE's CRT was driving me crazy for dearth of pixels. It was to be my Fontographer workstation, but I wound up getting a used IIx, a 19" B&W TPD and a Rocket instead after saving up my spare change for a year or two in addition to that unspent money.

SIGH! :-/

 

[HAL2001]

I heard they have a TAM and PowerMac G4 Cube on display, two Macs I haven't seen in person before, which I really would like to change

Really? I owned and refurbished several of them. BTW the colour classics, TAM's and Cubes in The Netherlands are way overpriced in The Netherlands. But that's my opinion...

 

[Daniël]

So I got a nice bit of info on this modded Mac. I went to the Apple Museum in Orvelte today (and bought off 6 mostly broken Macintoshes from them), and during the tour, the owner, Klaas, showed me the Plus with HDD. We talked about the reactions on it on the forums since the one on Marktplaats recently surfaced, and then he told me he was actually the one who modded them, which made me realize the one in the museum was not the same one on Marktplaats. Apparently, he found the HDD upgrade for the Macintosh Plus too expensive, and did that mod on his own Plus. Then he proceeded to offer it to schools, for a lower price than what buying up those external upgrades would have been, and did classrooms worth of Pluses on upgrades. Also, despite it being marked Psychology Lab of University of Amsterdam, the Plus was already at another school, bought secondhand by them, by the time he modded that one. That was really interesting to know. And he was right when he said that back then, the Macintosh was purely a working machine, not the collectible it is now, so we should put it in context why it was done. Also, he joked Apple took his idea of putting a HDD and fan inside of a Mac with the SE  :lol:

 

[james_w]

I love all of this!

Also, it's reminded me to keep a better eye on auction sites across Europe...