stuff I forgot I owned

[netfreak]

So I had to rip every box out of my house storage area to find one freakin power cable for my digital cable box and I ended up finding a few things I forgot I owned:

-Commodore 64C in original box with manual and disks, looks brand new

-boxed kids software disks for Atari ST

-Treo 270 PDA

-Mac Plus keyboard with japanese symbols on keys (I think I lost the actual computer during a move)

-video cable and some sort of chip socket for Classic II (new repair parts with orig invoice from a local comp store)

-boxed copies of Windows 3.0, DOS 5, in a box filled with MacAddict/MacWorld magazines from the 1997-2002 range I believe

Along with a bunch of audio related stuff I've been needing and even my unsent tax return papers from 2004. I should probably get on that one.

 

[netfreak]

plus a memory expansion card for the IIgs with all the sockets filled

 

[Osgeld]

awesome, I so want a 64, but I never had one, nor will the spouse approve of one lol

 

[netfreak]

So.... I found more stuff. IIsi (my first computer ever), LC 475 (nothin special), and Performa 6320CD (my first PPC Mac). I also see a Mac Plus but I can't reach it yet. I also found floor plans for some hospitals in Washington but that's a long story.

 

[Quadraman]

"floor plans for some hospitals in Washington"

Are you one of those people who goes adventuring in abandoned hospitals in the middle of the night? :lol:

 

[netfreak]

I wouldn't mind doing that, but no this came from some dumpster diving.

 

[Scott Baret]

Is it just me or does that IIsi have an internal CD-ROM? If so, how exactly did you go about putting that in?

 

[LCGuy]

Yep, that machine most certainly does have an internal CD-ROM...likewise I'd be really interested to see a pic of the guts of the machine.

 

[Quadraman]

That is weird. None of the Mac fan sites that I can find makes any mention of a IIsi coming with an internal CD ROM or of any upgrades from Apple or third parties to allow that. You might have a prototype or some rare model that was only released in limited quantities or in limited markets which may be why nobody has done a write up about them yet. Of course, it could also be a very good hack by a talented former owner. Does the slot on the front panel look like it was molded that way? I'd get inside the guts of that machine and look for any prototype markings or labels or any third party markings if it is an upgrade kit.

My IIvx had the same caddy load CD ROM before I turned it into a Quadra. The IIvi was the first Mac to have a CD ROM drive and that didn't come along for another 2 years after the IIsi. I am leaning towards a very talented hack job because that CD ROM drive wouldn't have been available when the IIsi was new or in the prototyping stage.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I have to agree with the consensus that the CD-ROM equipped IIsi is a hack. But one well-executed hack, at least from the outside.

When I get my IIsi out of storage, I may have to do that! (Although I have a slot-load SCSI drive around here somewhere that I think I'll use.)

 

[netfreak]

Hehe I was waiting for someone to see the CD-ROM and go "wtf"

Indeed it is by my own hand. On a poor resolution iPhone camera it looks like a decent job, however up close you can tell that I really hadn't operated power tools much. Inside the case I hacked off parts of the main unit as well as the lid. Now I wish I had left it alone but back then it seemed like a neat thing to do. Without doing some serious internal mods though, you lose the internal HD.