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correct, I did not use cling wrap.  The plus I had was the color of a beige mac.  The battery compartment and under the apple logo were clear indicators of the original color.  

As someone who has retrobtite-ed a plus, my advice is to use a cheap brush and the developer cream.  I used a THIN coat and reapplied every five minutes, turning the case 90 degrees each time.  It took about 45 minutes and it came out PERFECT.  This was also a hot summer day at high altitude.  I...

Pardon my ignorance, but just how is the source code different than a decompiled copy?  Is it just the inclusion of notes and other similar tidbits?  

I have a few clones and they are nice systems.  I honestly prefer them to the apple offerings of the time.  That said, they do have some quirks.  IIRC they have a fast frontside bus, but only have half the memory slots. So it ends up being a wash.   "normal" scsi hard drives should work fine if...

Every time some places static sensitive computer parts on carpet, GOD KILLS A PUPPY. The little board is most likely a mod to expand the ram.  Not 100% on this, but it sticks out in my head, this is the case. While not into the original mac myself, for $300 and this many modded parts, I'd say...

yes it was. Well i have a spare enhanced board that got damaged so i was going to harvest the chips out of it and put the original chips back in the kit si i would have a complete kit.

Another Craigslist score!   I REALLY wanted the duodisk.  It even came with the cable!  I must say, whomever designed that cable, and decided against self-retaining screws/thumbscrews should be flogged.   Took me 10 minutes with a magnet to find the damned things... The IIe is enhanced, I'm...

Was going to post this a few days ago, but with the 'upgrade' I just now remembered. https://imgur.com/a/YZMTV Got if off epay for $25.  Adds 128k of L2 to the Quadra 700, 900 & 950 if the blurb on the back can be believed.  The seller taped the shipping label DIRECTLY to the box. ...

  all told ~240 dram chips.  about 4 processors (z80,8080,6502)  some support chips...

Floppies and hard-ies! https://imgur.com/gallery/u51AF

Don't know yet, gonna "try" to at least inventory them tonight.

Well, I got to the IBM chassis.  I had a serious case of blueballs.  the bottom left machine was the cause.  It taunted me with a front decal "expansion unit".  But alas, some jackass just took the outer case, and dropped it on a bog standard 5160. gallery #3> https://imgur.com/gallery/zDHVR

UPDATE:     Got all the loose IBM PC parts bagged and tagged:   ALBUM >>> https://imgur.com/a/vdwS2   next up are the IBM chassis, several 486 desktop cases, and about 30 hard drives.   OI VEY!

Short answer, I'm selling it on consignment.  Well most of it.  I can't justify keeping 8 machines.  2 maybe 3?  yes.  I'm currently 1/2 way through all the pc cards.  Notable cards: 8-bit scsi, 8-bit quad floppy (1.44mb!), At least THIRTY 8-bit HP ethernet cards, a PCI multi I/O card with...

I am going to give a tentative answer of yes.  I didn't get a good look at everything, it was a whirlwind of boxes and loading.  They are currently sitting in my garage at the moment.  Once I get all these addon cards organized I can go into the IBM machines.  'john' told me one of the systems...

You might have seen the vogons post, or reddit post in /r/retrobattlestations or on retromachines on facebook, but just incase,I'm posting here. 2 days ago now I got a massive load of computers and spare parts and I wanted to share what I got. I've been dicking around all day and finally have...

got a new power supply.  A nice compact meanwell unit.  The hard drive was stuck, but just a gentile manual turning of the spindle from outside the drive unstuck it.  Still getting the chime then sad mac 0f002 error instantly.  So if anyone reading this happens to have a copy of the firmware I...

I kinda assumed, if you were skilled enough to harvest memory chips from one simm for another, and do it where it looks nice, you probably already knew what mouser was.

I assume you've already checked the low hanging fruit of mouser/digikey/etc?  

neat!  I wonder if I can contract him to make some 1mb 30-pin simms for some IBM machines I have that use unobtanium ram.