Got my original Macintosh with help from this fine community

[snuci]

This one has been a little elusive for me but "ask and ye shall find". In one of my other posts, I stated that my 68k collection is almost complete but I needed an original Macintosh (128K). No sooner did I post did Uniserver come to the rescue.

An original Macintosh arrived today with extra 400k floppy drive, bag and keyboard/mouse. It has the first logic board which makes sense since it's a January 1984 unit. Works like a charm booting a very early Mac version (forgot which one). Great machine and a great guy hooking me up. Thanks Uniserver!

 

[uniserver]

Yes, i'm happy its in your collection.

yup, the rear is from macdrone

the board is from mcdermd

pretty much sold it to you for what i had into it with the original cost, + external + trades in mind etc etc.

i hope you love it..

And one thing, if you do go to place a 400k drive back in there... Make sure to use the 400k floppy cable that it came from as well.

The floppy cable in there, I had to modify in order to make the 800k work properly with those 128K roms.

 

[Macdrone]

So Uni were you able to get another complete 128? or did you just decide to go without?

 

[uniserver]

w/o he needs it more,

and the $$ helped me pay down the electric bill

every since they installed that " Smart " Meter, my electricity bill went up like 60% a month.

 

[Paralel]

I'm glad I've resisted the installation of the so called "smart" meter.

One of my major rules: If industry says something new is a good idea, and the government says it's a good idea, it's almost a guarantee that it is no good for the average person.

The only time those two groups agree on something is when they both know it will make them money or makes their jobs easier, at the expense of the little guy.

Cynical and paranoid? Maybe. But I'd say history backs me up on this.

 

[Macdrone]

anything in line with power either has capacitance or resistance, or both which to me equals usage.

I am sorry to hear about that. If it makes you feel any better if the government doesn't figure out this shut down I don't get my retirement and will be homeless by Nov 1st. Those guys better stop messing around.

 

[snuci]

And one thing, if you do go to place a 400k drive back in there... Make sure to use the 400k floppy cable that it came from as well.The floppy cable in there, I had to modify in order to make the 800k work properly with those 128K roms.

Absolutely. I've modified a couple Lisa's between 800k and 400k drives and I know they're not interchangeable. The trouble now is finding a spare 400k drive. I also want to find and replace the ROMs with genuine Apple ROMs and see what I can do about the case. As I've said, I can work with it but is completely usable right now

I'll ask here first: Does anyone have a 400k 3.5" drive and/or original Mac 128k ROMs? If so, PM me.

With that said, I still love it. Thanks again.

 

[bigmessowires]

Just curious - what's different between the 400K and 800K drive cables? I got a report that my floppy emulator didn't work on a Mac 128K - maybe this is why?

 

[snuci]

An 800k drive can be made to work as a 400k drive (from double sided to single sided). I didn't inspect the cable but if it's similar to the Lisa, I seem to remember something about removing pins 9 and 20 from the drive cable to make an 800k floppy work like a 400k floppy. You can't do the opposite. The Mac 128k doesn't support 800k disks in firmware so if your emulator emulates an 800k drive, that would be the problem, I think.

Uniserver will chime in, I'm sure.

 

[directive0]

Congrats Snuci!

I'm noticing there are more and more folks on here that live in the GTA. I'd love to have a vintage mac night sometime and meet all you folks.

Any interest?

 

[uniserver]

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(mcdermd talked about it here.)