Pics of my finished Mac 128k

[Corey986]

Forgot to take before pictures...  but it was more yellow than than a yellow banana peel.

Anyway... Internally completely recapped Analog and CPU board including the Paper Film cap.

Not, the best pics... I just noticed one corner still looks yellow in two of the pics, but in the real world it's not.  I think it's shadow from the egg crate foam I sat the system on.

 

[Johnnya101]

Looks amazing! Good job!

 

[joethezombie]

Definitely beautiful. I am curious though, did you have a reference to color match? I ask because that 128k looks platinum now. Of course, it could be the color temperature of the lighting, or the white balance of the camera, but wow, that's BarelyBeige®.

 

[spaceinvader12]

Wow, looks very nice. Love the Sol-20 in the background of the second-to-last photo as well.

 

[Corey986]

The beige around the logo on the front is a great color reference.  It doesn't yellow since it's painted and not plastic.  The case now matches that perfectly.  It's still beige, just not tinted yellow at all.   The white balance could be off on the camera.  The last 3 pics were from my iPhone, but the 1st four are from my 4 day old Nikon D750 which I am just learning to use today, intact those are the first pics I took with it. 

The other cool thing about this 128k is that it is stamped on top from Harvard University and I have the original box/disks and all the paperwork from the original owner's lease and then buyout when they were a student/graduate.

@Spaceinvader12, glad you like the PT Sol-20.  It's hooked up to matching completely rebuilt (down to repacked bearings) PT Helios II.  Now that was a big project.

Cheers,

Corey

 

[omidimo]

Beautifully done. 

Do you plan to match it the external disk drive and numeric pad? 

 

[BadGoldEagle]

The other cool thing about this 128k is that it is stamped on top from Harvard University and I have the original box/disks and all the paperwork from the original owner's lease and then buyout when they were a student/graduate.

This one is an early example as well. It has the metal bar on top of the analog board.

Mine is a tad yellow, but it's hardly noticeable and it's never been retr0brighted before. You can tell just by looking at the space bar, which I'll have to dip in hydrogen peroxyde some time in the near future. Only the filter caps and the flyback transformer have been replaced. Everything else is original.



Yeah. I KNOW I NEED TO FIND ANOTHER MOUSE AS THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY PLATINUM AND DRIVING ME CRAZY. 

 

[Corey986]

Beautifully done.

Do you plan to match it the external disk drive and numeric pad?

I guess I have joined the world of "tribble" compact macs. I just picked up a nice 512k with an external disk drive, carrying case and an imagewriter I for $68 locally. I'll most likely use the external drive from that one for my 128k. I don't plan on adding a keypad, not a big fan of them. Plus space is at an issue in my office for displaying computers or I'd get a Lisa/Mac XL.

Cheers,

Corey

 

[omidimo]

"tribble" compact macs

Welcome to the Club, one becomes two becomes four becomes an episode of Hoarders! 

You should do a write up on the whole process of the restoration as a guide, it would help a lot of people on the fence of doing it.

 

[Johnnya101]

Yeah I'd be willing to do a Classic/Classic II guide! And maybe SE/30...

This should go on the wiki if we do this!