Beta’s obligatory thread

[BetaC]

As I seem to be finding more and more interesting apple machines as time goes on, a guess I’ll just make an overarching thread. And, well, at least I have a literally white whale to show off this time.

Yes, I finally managed to find an Apple IIGS, and in obscenely good condition.

It doesn’t even have corrosion on the inside from the PRAM battery or capacitors, let alone dust, so I think I found something that fell in to a time warp in 1990.


And much to my surprise, it works without any real issues. Hopefully I’ll get a disk made soon to allow me to do more than just boot the system test, which also passed.

 

[BetaC]

Small update: After some good scrubbing and magical erasing, the floppy drives are looking amazing as well. I can also confirm that the port on the back, and at least the 5.25 drive, works without issue. I don't have any 800k floppies, and what 3.5 floppies I do own are currently states away, and all 1.44MB.

 

[LaPorta]

Thanks for the photos, i need some reference of that area since i do have a little battery damage to fix.

 

[BetaC]

Thanks for the photos, i need some reference of that area since i do have a little battery damage to fix.

Do you need more pictures? I can get some more for ya.

 

[BetaC]

While technically not an Apple Computer, it very much is something designed around a PowerPC Macintosh. I managed to find a working Diamondtron CRT styled after the Graphite G4.

 

[k24a1]

Neat... I was about to get one but the seller just slept on us. >_>

 

[LaPorta]

While technically not an Apple Computer, it very much is something designed around a PowerPC Macintosh. I managed to find a working Diamondtron CRT styled after the Graphite G4.

But....that is an Apple monitor, so it counts...

 

[BetaC]

The monitor is in good condition, outside of a taking a bit too long to switch resolutions, seemingly randomly and rarely restarting, and two horizontal lines that might be Burnin, though I am unsure of what would cause burn in that would be completely from side to side aligned with a scanline

 

[djhaloeight]

Gorgeous machine. Back in 1997 a friend of mine got a complete IIgs machine from a family friend with software, manuals, Imagewriter II, everything. He ended up ruining it and not taking care of it. I wish he would’ve taken care of that machine better. Didn’t realize how hard it would be to find clean old computers nowadays.

 

[Daniël]

The monitor is in good condition, outside of a taking a bit too long to switch resolutions, seemingly randomly and rarely restarting, and two horizontal lines that might be Burnin, though I am unsure of what would cause burn in that would be completely from side to side aligned with a scanline

You're probably referring to the support wires, which hold the aperture grille in place within the CRT. This is normal for any aperture grille CRT, like Trinitrons and Diamondtrons.

 

[BetaC]

You're probably referring to the support wires, which hold the aperture grille in place within the CRT. This is normal for any aperture grille CRT, like Trinitrons and Diamondtrons.

I'm used to small production trinitrons, so I have never really noticed them. Thanks for making me aware

 

[BetaC]

Well, I’m a happy little man thanks to a coworker.


Sure it’s as beige as an early Commodore 64, but outside of it needing a recap to restore sound, it works. It’s still weird to consider this having two adb ports, and that it’s arguably more powerful than my LCII.

 

[BetaC]

And after some harrowing soldering that was less than professional, we have an SE/30 with sound. And 20MB.

 

[cheesestraws]

Nicely done!

 

[BetaC]

After a few days of messing around with my SCSI2SD, and cannibalizing some ram from the 486 build that I am giving up on, I have a nicely set up SE/30 now. I'm probably going to be using the system as a writing device at some point in the near future.

 

[CC_333]

cannibalizing some ram from the 486 build that I am giving up on

Why are you giving up on it?

c

 

[BetaC]

Why are you giving up on it?

c

For whatever reason, serial just refuses to work with multiple cards when I’m trying to use the system. I also would need to spend money on an XT-IDE to fix the BIOS 503MB bug, and various other annoyances that are just making it not fun.

 

[BetaC]

After just over a month, the SE/30 is in its mostly final form. It's got my SCSI2SD, the ram is sitting stable at 32MB, and the ROMinator II has let me install Mac OS 8.1 on a secondary SD card. Now to eventually find a new storage solution for my 7100/80AV, since it seems to hate the IBM SCSI drive I tried to use once I took the SCSI2SD out. I wish the MacSD was cheaper.

 

[BetaC]

I can now take a G3 iMac off the list. If only it didn’t crack a bit.

 

[BetaC]

Well, $20 later and I have this cute little guy in my collection. All 800MHz are trying their hardest to make the speakers sound good.