Original macintosh?

[didius]

Today there was a flee market near my place.

I went looking for books and perhaps some old macs, you never know.

Then suddenly I saw her. She was sitting on a small table, with keyboard and mouse. Next to the Apple logo there was ...... 'nothing'. As I approached several images of the Macintosh 128k flashed my eyes while I felt some butterflies in the stomach. Standing next to her I noticed the serial number "M0001P". She was looking very good, nearly mint condition. When i enquired for which price she could be mine the lady said: "I've looked on the net and found prices of € 40, so I'm willing to sell for € 30". SOLD!

She had some company, a keyboard, mouse and a 400/800? floppy reader. (should investigate)

As I remember a Macintosh 128k's price tag is far beyond? Is it not?

At home I had to test it out. She seems to be working very good. The screen is very bright and the disk included runs System 1.1.



Using it causes quite some noise. It didn't sound like ordinary floppy reading sounds so I suspected a built in HD mod. Alas that was not the case. There seems to be a little problem with the floppy though, I can't seem to eject it... When I choose eject in System 1.1 then the disk makes some movement but doesn't eject. Doesn't seem normal, does it?



I already own a Macintosh Plus (4MB), this seems like a nice addition.

Here are some serials numbers, is this a 128k/512 hybrid?

Mac: F4430H9M0001P

Board: LB043400002951

 

[Macdrone]

Not sure about the P but looks like a regular Mac 128.

 

[Cosmo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Macintosh

220V international models are appended with the letter "P" (e.g. M0001P)

Looks 128k to me. The short keyboard surely atleast belongs to 128k.

Absolutely fantastic find for the price you got. You were lucky!

Make an search using your serial number (not motherboard) to get all the details at http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html

 

[mcdermd]

Could be a 512k also. With no pictures of the back, logic board or serial it's hard to tell.

 

[Cosmo]

Could be a 512k also. With no pictures of the back, logic board or serial it's hard to tell.

Indeed. So more pictures are in order

If you can, check the back of the case what it says, "Macintosh" or "Macintosh 128k", the serial number from the case, the motherboard revision & code (on the left side when looking at back of the unit) etc. Let's hope it indeed is an original 128k "non upgraded" one as well.

 

[didius]

On the back it just says "Macintosh", nothing more.

I already posted the serial from the bottom of the case: F4430H9M0001P

On the motherboard i found LB043400002951 on a sticker.

A bit lower there's the Apple logo with 1983 next to it and 630-0101 and then i sticker with R2 printed on it (not completly sure, the ink faded a bit)

On the whte plastic protection the number P/N725-0015-D is marked and on the alumium port cover 805-0577 REV D.

How about that disk? Is it normal that it won't eject in system 1.1? (I know that my macintosh plus didn't have any problems ejecting Mac OS 5 or 4) Is there any protection on system 1.1 preventing it to be ejected while running the system? (do you have to load everything with the external disk loader?)

 

[Macdrone]

It is normal on any mac without a hard drive not to eject the system disk, if it doesnt do it on shut down then it needs cleaned and greased. With no OS in the drive there can be no computing. Thats why they came up with external hard drives and external floppy drives. I am pretty sure its a normal 128, in system 1 open about this macintosh and the memory should be in a corner. If it says its 128 then its unaltered, if it says anything else its altered. As long as it works and your happy with it its a great find at a good price.

congratz.

 

[mcdermd]

You can still eject the system disk if you click on it and select "Eject" from the menus. That's how you loaded other apps without a second floppy drive and it contributed to floppy elbow.

It certainly sounds like a 128k to me. That's an incredible score!

 

[TheMacGuy]

So what exactly is it doing when you try to eject the disk?

 

[macman142]

It's most definitely a 128k, with the 400k original FDD. You can tell from the pics.

M0001 we all know is a 128k. The "P" on the end (as previously mentioned) is because it has the "international" power supply 110-250v...

All my 128k's, 512k's and Plus's have the "P" on the end, which is usual stuff for Australian or European models.

 

[Bender]

Shouldn't it eject the disk if you hold down the mouse button on boot?

 

[macman142]

I'm not sure the mouse-button thing to eject was around back then.

System 1 you should be able to eject the boot floppy, certainly. As previously mentioned that is how you'd swap in another application floppy...?

If it doesn't even sound like it's trying to eject, then it might have either died OR it has the wrong floppy connector? Something about the red stripe vs the yellow stripe and 400/800 drives??? I seem to recall something like that. Either it would keep TRYING to eject over and over or it'd wouldn't eject at all...

 

[mcdermd]

Most likely it just needs a good clean and lube.

 

[onlyonemac]

That's how you loaded other apps without a second floppy drive and it contributed to floppy elbow.

Floppy elbow! :lol: :lol: Cool term... never heard it before!