Awesome liberation, or at least I think so!

[TheNixer]

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If receiving my really sweet 300dpi AppleScanner in original box with manual weren't enough to send my overloaded sensors into outer space, this haul certainly was. A Craigslist headline labeled "Antique Macintosh" peaked my interest so I gave a wonderfully cool older Mac user a call. I could tell he knew he was making my day but for hardly any cash at all I scored a "Fat Mac" 512k with keyboard - not the extended one! - a sweet, sweet 400k drive (look how white it is! - an add on keypad and trackball (not Apple brand but a good Dark Castle tool) - a pearly white HD 20SC perfect to back up my SE/30 - original Macintosh 128k manual (yippie!) - and an Apple //e keypad. Not pictured was a printer (crap) some old PC for trash (crap) and a really nice AppleColor High-Resolution Display. Oh, and a bunch of - wait for it - 400k floppies!

I left the king's crown behind - a full fledged 128k he wanted $345 for. It was in excellent condition, the same color as the 400k drive. I'm surprised he parted with the drive and the original manual.

The 512k Mac has no raster but that's a nice analog board fix. Man, this stuff was either not yellowed at all or just barely yellowed. This is my best liberation since the Performa 200.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Very cool! I used to have both your drives and trackball/numpad, wish I still did. Did you notice the cool little inlaid Apple logos in the thumbscrews of the 400k drive?

 

[stevep]

I thought all 512K Macs stated that on the back but this just shows "Macintosh". Is it an upgraded 128K?

 

[TheNixer]

You know, come to think of it you're right. I still find it crazy they changed the whole back of the computer when they did an upgrade but it should say 512k if it was one. I guess this could be an upgraded 128k.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Approx. how much did you pay (if you don't mind)?

 

[TheNixer]

I paid $40 but not everything is pictured. Craigslist prices just don't correlate to eBay prices...I would have paid $40 in shipping alone. I'm convinced more and more to stay off eBay and just be patient with my local area coughing up the classic Macs for me. My area isn't rich with them though so I'll have to be patient.

 

[Unknown_K]

If you collect long term you are much better off hunting for machines close to home.

If you just have to have it asap then forums/ebay are the way to go.

 

[MrMacPlus]

really, really, sweet haul...

 

[MacMan]

Wow, very nice score. I'm surprised he was wanting so much for the 128K given that it looks like the 512K was originally a 128K anyway, and is going to be far more usable with it's larger amount of RAM.

 

[TheNixer]

I think because it was an all original unmolested 128k. Oddly enough he did allow me to have the 400k drive that came with it as well as the manual. Just not the machine itself.