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.... would one criteria not be the 9" B&W screen?
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.I believe Stuart Bell (the Power Colour Classic guy from Applefritter) was trying to collect them all... not sure if he ever managed it though.
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.Depending on the taste of moon dust at the time, Apple offered different spec Mac EDs in different countries at different times.
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.It was by bids, but I offered it with an external 20MB hard drive, keyboard, mouse - the full works. I even included 4 1MB SIMMS so that the stock RAM could be upgraded to the full 4MB. It also had a clean-installed of System 6, Clarisworks and some games. The guy who bought it was local to me as well, so he came and picked it up directly.
About This Particular Mac,[/i] June 2002"]The compact Mac series opened with the black-and-white Macintosh 128K in 1984 and closed with the Color Classic II in 1993.
If Apple defines these as the Compact AIOs, it really isn't very important what anyone else thinks is a compact AIO. Wiki also offers a listing of all Macs by case type.Wiki[/url]"]Apple divides these models into five form factors: The Macintosh 128K and the very similar Macintosh SE, the also similar but already "retro" Macintosh Classic (all of them with a 9" black and white screen), the modernized Macintosh Color Classic with a 10" color screen and the very different Macintosh XL.
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...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.
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....intend to move to Japan and dragging them all there would be to much hassle.
cant be too hard its been in production for 6 yearsYeah, I guess thats my goal, get a comlete collection some day. Iam currently seacrhing for a Plus.
4 years.cant be too hard its been in production for 6 yearsYeah, I guess thats my goal, get a comlete collection some day. Iam currently seacrhing for a Plus.
just make sure that the keyboard is in working condition
its extremley hard to find a replacement
i've got one but i don't think you want to pay the shipping costs to send it to the states [] ]'>Anyone who has a compact mac they could sell me would be greatly apperciated!
http://www.vanschip.com/compact_mac_gallery/jan_kistemaker/index.htmlYup, 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.