I've been enthusing about and (off-and-on) collecting Macs since my first-ever computer (Performa 550), and have managed to never own an '040 - until now!
I was stoked to find this 475, particularly with the rarer old-style enclosure as I am quite partial to auto-inject floppy drives. This was a fairly blind (no shots of inside or operation) eBay lot along with a less-exciting-to-me LC III (already have one); the seller accepted a good offer and the machines fortunately survived the trip from Canada to the U.S.
The case is intact, though not the cleanest...
...but, hooray, the inside is beautiful!
The Asante NIC is a nice plus, too.
Will need a recap as they all do - high time for me to learn this - but no super obvious leakage and it turns on nicely with a chime and video. Came with original (unexploded) battery installed and no HDD - nothing else stripped. Here's hoping at least one of those VRAM chips is a 512K, but not holding my breath.
The sticker label is interesting. Certainly looks official and Apple Garamond and all but not quite applied straight. Can't help but wonder if there's anything silkscreened underneath it and how it came to be.
Once the floppy drive is cleaned out and re-lubed, this may become my primary floppy-making and archiving station. (Currently using an SE FDHD with a zip drive for this, which doesn't do too badly!)
Excited to get 7.1+enabler on it and experience that '040 speed - the fastest 68K macs I've owned have been 33MHz '030s. Though I certainly lusted after my neighbors' 575 back in the day
I was stoked to find this 475, particularly with the rarer old-style enclosure as I am quite partial to auto-inject floppy drives. This was a fairly blind (no shots of inside or operation) eBay lot along with a less-exciting-to-me LC III (already have one); the seller accepted a good offer and the machines fortunately survived the trip from Canada to the U.S.
The case is intact, though not the cleanest...
...but, hooray, the inside is beautiful!
The Asante NIC is a nice plus, too.
Will need a recap as they all do - high time for me to learn this - but no super obvious leakage and it turns on nicely with a chime and video. Came with original (unexploded) battery installed and no HDD - nothing else stripped. Here's hoping at least one of those VRAM chips is a 512K, but not holding my breath.
The sticker label is interesting. Certainly looks official and Apple Garamond and all but not quite applied straight
. Can't help but wonder if there's anything silkscreened underneath it and how it came to be.
Once the floppy drive is cleaned out and re-lubed, this may become my primary floppy-making and archiving station. (Currently using an SE FDHD with a zip drive for this, which doesn't do too badly!)
Excited to get 7.1+enabler on it and experience that '040 speed - the fastest 68K macs I've owned have been 33MHz '030s. Though I certainly lusted after my neighbors' 575 back in the day
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