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Complete Collection of Every Compact Mac?
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The Macster
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I tend to define a Compact just by what they look like, as they all look recognisably the same, whereas the other AIOs (and the Colour Classics to some extent) look completely different. Shown two traditional compacts, anyone would recognise that they are closely related, but shown one compact and one Colour Classic, or one compact and an iMac, you probably wouldn't see them as being from the same line. Even if you want to go for a criteria-based approach to defining a compact, as opposed to just grouping ones that are clearly from the same family, would one criteria not be the 9" B&W screen?
MacMan
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I would tend to agree as I don't really consider the Colour Classic as a compact as it has a different form factor from the earlier compacts. Since the Plus, SE, Classic and the rest follow roughly the same form factor (despite having variations in case design), it is fair to group them together as being THE compacts.
coius
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Some japanese company bought my 128k for $250USD. It was just the system. No keyboard, mouse, or OS. I wasn't even sure the floppy worked. I know the screen was shrunken, but that was it. The battery at the back was missing.
Then again, it was the first batch of 128Ks, since it didn't even have the "128k" label on it. It was just "Macintosh"
Haha, I guess Apple didn't plan on having any more macintosh's. Look how far we came. From Macintosh, to PowerMacintosh, to PowerMac, To Mac (pro/book/macbook pro/iMac)
Then again, it was the first batch of 128Ks, since it didn't even have the "128k" label on it. It was just "Macintosh"
Haha, I guess Apple didn't plan on having any more macintosh's. Look how far we came. From Macintosh, to PowerMacintosh, to PowerMac, To Mac (pro/book/macbook pro/iMac)
Charlieman
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From what I recall, Stuart has all of the mainstream compacts, including the CCII and labels that correctly spell "Colour" not "Color". However, it gets more complicated with the Mac ED (a 512 or Plus variant offered outside the US to education buyers). Depending on the taste of moon dust at the time, Apple offered different spec Mac EDs in different countries at different times. The SE family are another problem. Lots of models, different models in different countries, different labels on the back case bucket.
The Macster
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I'd see a complete collection as one that had one of each name on the case though - getting one of every specification would be overkill, I reckon
ie one Classic II, regardless of speaker holes, one ED etc. Even that is 11 compact Macs though (12 if you want both beige and platinum Pluses, not including CCs), which is too many for most of us to be able to have (where would you put them all?!), and it would be very difficult to get them all anyway.
Charlieman
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Given the spec offered £35 was a sensible price for both seller and buyer. Cheaper Mac Pluses come without the keyboard and/or mouse, and certainly without an external SCSI drive. MacMan offered a complete Mac Plus solution, close to the buyer, with the opportunity to test before handing over money. Sounds good to me.
Last night, I drove across town to pick up a pair of hifi speakers. For £15 on eBay. I own a similar pair of speakers, but I blew the tweeter in one in a late night musical indulgence (my neighbour's son is learning the piano so we are pretty mellow about compaining about noise). The geezer who sold me the speakers asked, "I suppose I should show that they work". And I replied, looking across the room of well packed removal boxes, "How soon are you moving?".
The speakers worked perfectly, of course. Crooks don't sell goods from their homes. I trusted the sale because I met the seller face to face on his ground.
dualdflipflop
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Here is a tricky question...
To complete this collection. Where would you find a disk image of the 1984 investor meeting demo disk as seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ12vNZ5yMY ?
Or am I dreaming of a white Christmas?
To complete this collection. Where would you find a disk image of the 1984 investor meeting demo disk as seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ12vNZ5yMY ?
Or am I dreaming of a white Christmas?
puckman
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Yup, got am all but soon will have to make some hard choices as intend to move to Japan and dragging them all there would be to much hassle.
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/gerard_van_schip/index.html
In all those boxes I keep the various cables.
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/gerard_van_schip/index.html
In all those boxes I keep the various cables.
The Macster
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Are you going to Japan permanently then? If you do get rid of any, make sure you give/sell them to someone, as we'd never forgive you if you threw any away!
I would come up and get some of them, but alas I don't have space for any...
JDW
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I've lived here in Japan almost 13 years now. I can tell you quite frankly that I have built my classic Mac collection while living here! The popularity of old Macs in the eyes of the Japanese far transcends that anywhere else in the world, even the US.
I strongly suggest you retain your collection and just ocean-freight it via USPS to your new address. That is the cheapest means of getting them to you. And if you later decided to sell them, you can put them up on Japanese web auction sites and fetch more than double the prices you see on EBAY (depending on the condition of your machines). I do NOT make this suggestion in order to encourage excessive profit-taking though. I only mention the side benefit of selling here to give you a good reason to bring your Macs with you. I always hate to see old Macs cast aside for any reason, even "moving overseas."[/img]
funkytoad
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FunnymanSE30
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4 years.
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/jan_kistemaker/index.html
WOW!!! is that really a transparent plus? to cool!
