Recent content by madsox

Also, @Phipli - https://www.ebay.com/itm/176616311850 Seem legit or pirate/scammy?

This one is an 800K floppy, so upgrading to FDHD is in the plans. The MB battery for sure, and I'm thinking about the fan. I want to upgrade it to make it a neo-SE/30, with BlueSCSI (although that Zulu adapter looks pretty slick!!) and also a wired ethernet port. This one is running 6.0.8, and I...

Okay, it looks like I've got an SE coming. I found one on the 'Bay, being sold by its original owner who had it since college 30-some years ago. Still running on the original drive and everything seems to work (he sent a vid, answered some questions, seems legit). Less than $200 all in...

Nice summary, thank you! I need to find a little old lady who only ran her powerbook to dial up AOL on Sundays... 8-)

@Byrd “cockroach of the Mac world” 🤣🤣🤣 But I see what you mean, and I do think I’m going to start with one of those. How much can the Plus be upgraded/modded, though? I’m pretty sure I can make an SE into something powerful enough for actual use, not serious “running a business on it” but...

Hello! Tagging along here to watch as OP works on this, it's very much like what I'm looking at doing - I may start with a base SE and do the CPU upgrade, BlueSCSI install and such myself. But if I had seen this floating around this summer here, it would have been excellent. But @sunvalleylaw if...

SE for a start/learning base makes a lot of sense. Is the MB construction, bus layout, etc. pretty similar to the 30? I would imagine they didn’t change too much, although the original SE didn’t have provision for an internal SCSI bay, did it? I’ve heard the Classics were not as friendly to...

Comparing the motorola powerbooks with an eye on actually using one for personal day-to-day stuff (games, notes, nothing too serious), would there be much difference between different models if not pushing them? I loved the 68000 powerbooks with the trackball, never got to own one but now I want...

Long time mac *user* here, now wanting to get into restoring/modding an old one for use in this modern world. I think the first Mac I used was a Plus, the first one I actually bought was a Classic II, but I never was very serious about maintaining them or tinkering. Now I want to - I'm thinking...