markkrueg
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All my first jobs went toward saving up enough to buy a Macintosh II in my Junior year of high school in 1987. It was my prize possession and jump started my tech career. But I had to sell it around 1990. Today I received a working Macintosh II that is in much better condition than I expected. It boots off its original hard drive!
I've just begun cleaning and assessing on my ESD safe bench. I only booted once off the drive and then unplugged it. I plan to only spin it up one more time to do a full backup if I'm lucky. I'll install a newer SCSI drive from my stash or maybe some sort of modern replacement.
The board looks perfect. I can see no damage. I'll have to look over all the caps with magnification. I know many people say the batteries should be immediately cut out; so I'll probably have to do that soon as well. They look so perfect it will be hard to do it.
My next step is to find the keyboard I plan to use with it. I have my Apple Adjustable Keyboard in a box somewhere along with an ADB mouse. Time to search the house. Can't do much more with this machine until I find those.
Any advice is appreciated on proper maintenance necessary to keep this machine running for many years to come.
I've just begun cleaning and assessing on my ESD safe bench. I only booted once off the drive and then unplugged it. I plan to only spin it up one more time to do a full backup if I'm lucky. I'll install a newer SCSI drive from my stash or maybe some sort of modern replacement.
The board looks perfect. I can see no damage. I'll have to look over all the caps with magnification. I know many people say the batteries should be immediately cut out; so I'll probably have to do that soon as well. They look so perfect it will be hard to do it.
My next step is to find the keyboard I plan to use with it. I have my Apple Adjustable Keyboard in a box somewhere along with an ADB mouse. Time to search the house. Can't do much more with this machine until I find those.
Any advice is appreciated on proper maintenance necessary to keep this machine running for many years to come.