Macintosh ED and Nikon LS-1000 Film scanner

[Ike]

first of all... i dont really know what the proper way to display images in this forum is, so i'm going to upload them to an external hosting site to be safe.

I just got me a Macintosh ED!

It's one of those scary Educational machines... basically just a 512Ke with a plus front bezel and a silkscreen name on it.

Being an ED it's also one of those scary machines that have been on for a very long time.

However, the screen has no visible burn in, there are apart from a bit of wonky video (i think because of the Yoke connector), no other issues.

With it was an 800k external disk drive, also got the extended keyboard with it, and an original mouse.

it has no upgrades whatsoever... the programmer switch came also with it.

The owner told me the University of Utrecht, where worked for 40 years, used to throw batches and batches of these away. he managed to save some of them and he recently found this one in his attic. it came right up and booted from the external drive.

Then he told me he also had some film scanner with SCSI somewhere... went to his attic and found a Nikon LS-1000 with 3 scsi cables (thick ones holy moly!), a terminator, the manuals, the CD's and a Photoshop elements 2.5 CD for mac and windows with the Leica logo on it. key included.

All this for €65 (roughly translated: an SE or Classic will cost you €25-50, a plus will cost you about €60 if you can find one)

will add more info and post more pictures soon.

 

[Cosmo]

Very nice! You're in Holland right?

I have the earlier revision of it, an 512Ke with SCSI. I've never seen Macintosh ED here.

By all means, do add more pictures.

 

[Ike]

Thats correct, i'm in Holland

Yes i will take more pictures of it today. I'm actually already using it for a school project. I'm with the Design Academy located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The goal of this assignment was meeting a stranger. so i did, and i want to show my class (mostly people between 18 and 25 years old) What this old technology is like.

Just discharged the CRT and reflowed the solder on all connectors, the flyback and some other minor things. The screen twitching is gone now and the screen still has great brightness... too bad that i just broke the programmer switch BY STEPPING ON IT... took it of for the repairs it slipped out of my bag on a grey floor... OUCH :c

 

[onlyonemac]

I'm sure those are easily replaceable. Otherwise, post some pictures as it might be repairable.

 

[Ike]

I meant the grey plastic part that you have to clip onto the case. Feel so sh*tty about breaking it.

 

[Macdrone]

The reset button? I'm sure I may have one. The get old and brittle. Just PM me your address and ill try and locate one and put it in an envelope.

 

[Ike]

Pictures are in

 

[Ike]

scanner pics:

 

[mcdermd]

That ED reminds me of my AUC Plus. Mine has a nice AUC bicycle logo branded in the side and that weird, blank label on the back.

 

[Ike]

Mcdermd, I was looking at your site the other day but I couldn't find the AUC machine. Do you have any pictures of it? I would like to see it

 

[mcdermd]

I don't have any up there. I'll dig it out this week and see about snapping a few.

 

[Macdrone]

It would be neat to have a personalized computer from apple like that. That is +10 on the cool factor. I need to meet up with Volvo as to get a 512 off him one of these days and see where chimp went to drop off some stuff to him to make my color classic II. Did the color classic II also have a different name plate? Never seen one so wondering. I have a colour classic plate that someone sent a guy who past away (his wife let me buy what was left off of her) that I will put on one of my CC's. Im really lucky at this point as all my classic macs boot and work at this point (classic I have needs analog boad recapped as no sound or low sound). I have like 4 classic boards all the same issue. I have to recap an SE board for my 30 as the screen is all wonky. If one of my pluses dies I may go crazy and make a retro machine but thats the only machine I would consider doing it to. I have 128's that I cant find a 128 board for (they have 512 boards), an SE, a classic and 3 color classics as I wanted to make a Euro version, stock version and a II. I may abandon that o spread the wealth but I have lots of room so I am not rushing yet.

 

[mcdermd]

Mcdermd, I was looking at your site the other day but I couldn't find the AUC machine. Do you have any pictures of it? I would like to see it

I grabbed it out of the pile and it's gracing the back of a different front right now but here's the close ups of the case. I'll have to put it on the Retrobrite and restore list for the spring.

 

[Ike]

hey that logo looks really professional. really gives it character

also, the label looks the same as my platinum plus except mine has a logo what looks an awful lot like the Deutsche Post logo on the bottom right of the label.

Seeing that you are located in the US and the plus is rated for 220Volts, i think thats a quite standard Europe Plus label or am I missing something?

EDIT: OH wait it IS the older version of the Deutsche Post logo, maybe for shipping instructions?

 

[mcdermd]

The interesting thing is that the PSU/analog that was in that Plus is standard USA 110V

EDIT: come to think of it ...

I got that Plus from a friend's wife. It was her family's computer when she was growing up. They did spend some time in Germany and other countries when she was small. I believe she was actually a US citizen born abroad. So there is a possibility that Plus was bought in Europe and the analog board switched when it was brought to the USA.

 

[Ike]

Hey that's pretty cool, love it when macs have a history behind them. Funny that the one Mac bought and used in Germany did NOT have the Deutsche Post mark on the label.