sambapati87
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I'll preface this by saying I have two compact projects going on:
1) A clean, good-physical-condition, working Mac plus to run HappyPlusClock on (nearly 24/7)
2) A "hackintosh plus"—a home theater PC stuffed into a Mac Plus (or 512k...) case, complete with monochrome VGA CRT and HDMI out to use on a big plasma TV.
To that end, I now have (recently conquested):
A) A Mac plus with a bad analog board and/or CRT and a bad floppy drive, which is currently totally stripped as the case parts go through Retr0brite'ing (I'll have another thread on that in a week or so). I am pretty sure the logic board works fine and all the RAM slots are full. I could only get it to boot one of my 800k floppies and even then it was iffy. Multiple analog board problems as well. This is a good candidate for project #2, as the case has little to no yellowing (the retr0brite will make it even better, I'm sure).
B) A 512k "working" from eBay, looks like minimal yellowing and a working (at least for now) analog board. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350295914383&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
I believe I'll be taking the working logic board from the Plus and putting it into the 512k (essentially a Mac -> Mac Plus upgrade). This way the 512k (with it's working analog section) can be my happy plus clock, and without the "Macintosh Plus" label and with the original inlayed apple logo it will be even more original looking. I would like to keep the 512k back case with the 512k front and vice-versa, but I know the Plus logic board has different ports from the 512k. (Port shapes/sizes don't matter for project 2). I'll just see.
Sorry for rambling—this was partly me getting my thoughts down in writing, too! I'm open to thoughts/suggestions...
1) A clean, good-physical-condition, working Mac plus to run HappyPlusClock on (nearly 24/7)
2) A "hackintosh plus"—a home theater PC stuffed into a Mac Plus (or 512k...) case, complete with monochrome VGA CRT and HDMI out to use on a big plasma TV.
To that end, I now have (recently conquested):
A) A Mac plus with a bad analog board and/or CRT and a bad floppy drive, which is currently totally stripped as the case parts go through Retr0brite'ing (I'll have another thread on that in a week or so). I am pretty sure the logic board works fine and all the RAM slots are full. I could only get it to boot one of my 800k floppies and even then it was iffy. Multiple analog board problems as well. This is a good candidate for project #2, as the case has little to no yellowing (the retr0brite will make it even better, I'm sure).
B) A 512k "working" from eBay, looks like minimal yellowing and a working (at least for now) analog board. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350295914383&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
I believe I'll be taking the working logic board from the Plus and putting it into the 512k (essentially a Mac -> Mac Plus upgrade). This way the 512k (with it's working analog section) can be my happy plus clock, and without the "Macintosh Plus" label and with the original inlayed apple logo it will be even more original looking. I would like to keep the 512k back case with the 512k front and vice-versa, but I know the Plus logic board has different ports from the 512k. (Port shapes/sizes don't matter for project 2). I'll just see.
Sorry for rambling—this was partly me getting my thoughts down in writing, too! I'm open to thoughts/suggestions...
