Daniël
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Today I visited the Apple Museum of the Netherlands, in Orvelte. Although I loved the tour of the museum given to me by the owner Klaas, a real cool dude who knows his Apple stuff very well, I was invited because I had put up an ad looking for broken Macintoshes to repair. My idea is to buy up dead Macintoshes, and fix them up. The ones I do not yet have I keep, and the doubles, I sell for a little bit of profit (I'm not looking to make a fortune off of this, so my prices will be below market value so other enthusiasts can have some fun too), and Klaas responded to me that they had some broken ones left over, and I could come over to negotiate acquiring them. After having a great tour, and learning some things I did not know, we went upstairs to the staff/repair area.
And there they were, a pile of 6 different Macintoshes. 2 Plusses, a Plus ED, an SE, a Classic II, and its brother, a Performa 200. For those who don't know, the Performa 200 is just a rebadged Classic II. We agreed on €100 for the bundle, a really nice price I'm very grateful of (Thanks Klaas!). I was told that one of the Plusses did work, but had mismatched parts, as the main plastic body was much more yellowed than the front piece. The ED had a note that said the analog board was having issues on that one. I did not get any keyboards or mice with it, so I do need to get a RJ11 Apple keyboard, DB-9 Apple mouse, and a ADB mouse (I already have an SE with ADB keyboard).
At home, I tested them. As said, the one Plus works as was told. The other one too, but it has a big hole in the back, along with two small holes next to it, indicating there was some sort of DIN connectors at some point there.
The ED has a loud whine when it is on (probably bad caps/flyback on the analog board, as the note suggests). The SE had a sticker on it that says it needs a new HDD, I noticed at home, which is indeed its only apparent issue, other than probably needing a good disk drive lubrication.
The Classic II, of course, was showing black and white bars due to leaky caps. I attempted the temporary board washing solution on it, leaving it for around 45-60 minutes in warm soapy water, then drying it above a radiator on full blast until not a single drop of water came off when I waved the board around, and sure enough, it boots up fine once again, although complaining about not having enough memory for extensions. So that'll be a fairly straight forward recap job, although I do need a SCSI cable and some screws for it, as it was missing (some of) those. And also some RAM as that was also gone, probably used for different working Macs, which is why it whines about that upon booting. Performa 200 is playing dead, CRT does not come on despite fan and HDD noise being heard. That's gonna be a bit trickier, I think.
Anyway, I'm gonna have some fun fixing these up, I'll probably try to retrobrite the Plus with the mismatched plastics to make it uniform again. I'll see how long it lasts on that before trying it on the others. Gotta have to wait for some sunnier days, though.
Obligatory picture:
And there they were, a pile of 6 different Macintoshes. 2 Plusses, a Plus ED, an SE, a Classic II, and its brother, a Performa 200. For those who don't know, the Performa 200 is just a rebadged Classic II. We agreed on €100 for the bundle, a really nice price I'm very grateful of (Thanks Klaas!). I was told that one of the Plusses did work, but had mismatched parts, as the main plastic body was much more yellowed than the front piece. The ED had a note that said the analog board was having issues on that one. I did not get any keyboards or mice with it, so I do need to get a RJ11 Apple keyboard, DB-9 Apple mouse, and a ADB mouse (I already have an SE with ADB keyboard).
At home, I tested them. As said, the one Plus works as was told. The other one too, but it has a big hole in the back, along with two small holes next to it, indicating there was some sort of DIN connectors at some point there.
The ED has a loud whine when it is on (probably bad caps/flyback on the analog board, as the note suggests). The SE had a sticker on it that says it needs a new HDD, I noticed at home, which is indeed its only apparent issue, other than probably needing a good disk drive lubrication.
The Classic II, of course, was showing black and white bars due to leaky caps. I attempted the temporary board washing solution on it, leaving it for around 45-60 minutes in warm soapy water, then drying it above a radiator on full blast until not a single drop of water came off when I waved the board around, and sure enough, it boots up fine once again, although complaining about not having enough memory for extensions. So that'll be a fairly straight forward recap job, although I do need a SCSI cable and some screws for it, as it was missing (some of) those. And also some RAM as that was also gone, probably used for different working Macs, which is why it whines about that upon booting. Performa 200 is playing dead, CRT does not come on despite fan and HDD noise being heard. That's gonna be a bit trickier, I think.
Anyway, I'm gonna have some fun fixing these up, I'll probably try to retrobrite the Plus with the mismatched plastics to make it uniform again. I'll see how long it lasts on that before trying it on the others. Gotta have to wait for some sunnier days, though.
Obligatory picture:
I'm spending tomorrow recapping - these little computers all need preserving
