Qrani
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My Macintosh II has this odd sticker next to the floppy drive, labeled "1.4 MB"
This is especially weird given that my Macintosh II has two 800KB drives, an IWM chip, and the stock ROMs. Given the odd nature of this and just, the look of the sticker in the first place, I assumed, for the last 3-4 years I've had it, that this was something added by one of its owners.
Fast forward to well, today, and I was looking at Macintosh IIs on eBay, basically laughing at how much people want to sell them for. I mean like, $375 for one yellowed, in poor condition, with a monochrome video card, no floppy drives, not working, and including no accessories? I got mine for $50, including the monitor, and the guy threw in a completely sealed IIsi software box. Had 8MB RAM, 512KB VRAM, two FDDs... Anyways while I was looking at them, I noticed something... Another one of these Macintosh IIs had a similar sticker to the one on mine.
This is just like the one on mine but labeled "800K" instead of "1.4 MB". The guy also showed it with the case opened up, one of the drives in it was a 1.44MB drive and one was an 800KB drive... At least on this one the "800K" sticker is put with the 800KB drive, while mine has the "1.4 MB" sticker put with an 800KB drive. But then, I found another one!
This has the exact same sticker mine does... I'm not sure whether it has 1.44 MB drives, as he doesn't show the floppy drives. However the ROMs look like they may not be stock. Anyways, there was one more of them.
Some are labeled "800K", like the 1st and 3rd ones, while others are "1.4 MB", like mine and the 2nd one. They are all the same size sticker, with the same font, generally placed on the right of the rightmost floppy drive, and generally inside the floppy drive "groove". The exception to this is the sticker labeled "FDHD" on the 3rd one. It's got a different, larger font. The 3rd one is also the only one with two stickers (despite all four having two floppy drives). I've now searched for Mac IIs in a few other places, but couldn't find any that have these stickers.
This is very interesting though... It basically disproves my assumption that the sticker on mine was something added by an owner of it. My guess is that maybe this was something added by Apple dealers when you came in to get it upgraded or repaired? Perhaps for the purpose of making it take less time, avoiding confusion by stopping someone trying to repair it from attempting to use a 1.44MB disk in an 800KB drive. Other than that, I have no idea for why they could be there, and why they would be so consistent. If anyone has any ideas, any information, especially if your Macintosh II has one of these stickers, I would love to know.
This is especially weird given that my Macintosh II has two 800KB drives, an IWM chip, and the stock ROMs. Given the odd nature of this and just, the look of the sticker in the first place, I assumed, for the last 3-4 years I've had it, that this was something added by one of its owners.
Fast forward to well, today, and I was looking at Macintosh IIs on eBay, basically laughing at how much people want to sell them for. I mean like, $375 for one yellowed, in poor condition, with a monochrome video card, no floppy drives, not working, and including no accessories? I got mine for $50, including the monitor, and the guy threw in a completely sealed IIsi software box. Had 8MB RAM, 512KB VRAM, two FDDs... Anyways while I was looking at them, I noticed something... Another one of these Macintosh IIs had a similar sticker to the one on mine.
This is just like the one on mine but labeled "800K" instead of "1.4 MB". The guy also showed it with the case opened up, one of the drives in it was a 1.44MB drive and one was an 800KB drive... At least on this one the "800K" sticker is put with the 800KB drive, while mine has the "1.4 MB" sticker put with an 800KB drive. But then, I found another one!
This has the exact same sticker mine does... I'm not sure whether it has 1.44 MB drives, as he doesn't show the floppy drives. However the ROMs look like they may not be stock. Anyways, there was one more of them.
Some are labeled "800K", like the 1st and 3rd ones, while others are "1.4 MB", like mine and the 2nd one. They are all the same size sticker, with the same font, generally placed on the right of the rightmost floppy drive, and generally inside the floppy drive "groove". The exception to this is the sticker labeled "FDHD" on the 3rd one. It's got a different, larger font. The 3rd one is also the only one with two stickers (despite all four having two floppy drives). I've now searched for Mac IIs in a few other places, but couldn't find any that have these stickers.
This is very interesting though... It basically disproves my assumption that the sticker on mine was something added by an owner of it. My guess is that maybe this was something added by Apple dealers when you came in to get it upgraded or repaired? Perhaps for the purpose of making it take less time, avoiding confusion by stopping someone trying to repair it from attempting to use a 1.44MB disk in an 800KB drive. Other than that, I have no idea for why they could be there, and why they would be so consistent. If anyone has any ideas, any information, especially if your Macintosh II has one of these stickers, I would love to know.
