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The A4000 was released when the company was short on money and dying. Look at the Mac IIci (Sept 1989 $6269) vs Amiga 3000 (June 1990 $3379)

Amiga was cheaper than a Mac, but the ST was cheaper than the Amiga. I have a 1040ST and both Atari monitors (color and mono) and the mono would have worked great as a cheap Mac.

If Apple had died at the end of the 68K era the Apple community would have been the same as the Amiga one.

If you purchased a Mac II you probably did so because of some kind of expensive Nubus card you needed (DSP, Sound, Video capture). Kind of hard not to be able to emulate a machine with the same CPU if you can source the ROMs.

The early days of eBay (very late 90's when PayPal came about) and freecycle (2003) were a gold mine. Also, the early 00's computer forums and even newsgroups were a great place to buy and trade. When people looked at collectors like they had a screw lose and you could just start finding gear up...

I still remember getting a IIsi from the old VFC marketplace (vintagecomputermarketplace.com) just because I wanted the cheap 4x16MB 30 pin SIMMs (was used as a server with a hole drilled in the case for a red HD LED). The unit had the Nubus adapter in it, "new floppy drive" (I assume he just...

I look for deals on old macs but only once in a while. The last Mac I purchased was an Intel iMac this year, a 660av was the last 68K I snagged in 2017, and a PPC G4 20" iMac was the last PPC I snagged in 2017. Like most 68K gear the 660av needed a HD, PS was replaced, and the board was...

I would assume there is a very finite amount of those custom GPUs to go around.

I think the Supermac card is stuck at 8MB Gworld so only 2 x 4MB SIMMs work and I have never seen any of a different size anyway. LEM says the 8.24GC can use 2x4MB SIMMs same as used on the IIfx for 10MB total Gworld (I guess there is 2MB on the card).

These days if you find a reasonable LC it is probably dirty, needs recapped, missing the HD, and the floppy is probably dead. I remember picking up a couple LC IIIs from a sketchy guy that had a trailer full of them from a school twenty years ago and one whistling to death five minutes after I...

I had issues with plastics on the 8500 (1 generation newer then the 8100) 15 years ago so things will be getting worse. At least now you can probably 3d print anything that needs replaced and somebody probably has a model made for it by now.

I wonder how many fonts and pages 200MB would hold anyway, it's not like an office would be hammering it in your basement. Printer upgrades are fun, took me years to get the RAM expansion for my 4/600 PS.

Large laptop SCSI HDs would be hard to find these days.

2MB SIMMs. Pull the 256K SIMMs out and see what you get.

The oldest LCD's I have are 1280x1024. Never seen a 1024x768 native LCD screen except on a laptop, I assume you will have issues with motion blur on something that old.

I have a few SE machines and turning them into SE/30's in not an option for me since I have a couple SE/30's anyway. The stock SE is a great 68000 machine with 720K drives for old software plus you have a HD making life fun. I never bothered to collect the original compacts because without...

Yes, finding a good wiper will be the issue.

The toner cartridge rubber wiper is probably falling apart or leaks from age.

The 292@83 is faster than the 300@66 that came out after. Never really looked into which of my G3 desktops were 83Mhz capable.

How so? I never said they were invented in 2003 (more like 1940's) just becoming common use in PC's after 2003. Most PC CPU's used simple Aluminum or exotic Copper heatsink/fans when TDP was user 80W (Athlon XP and P4 ERA in early 2000's). Thermaltake came out with heat pipes around 2003.