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Nice job. I see the state of knowledge about these things has progressed in recent years -- most of my core work was done ca. 2004 or so -- it was originally an iDisk HomePage site -- I got the current URL when they discontinued MobileMe, around 2012 or so. I think I was aware of the existence...

Interesting. Just when I thought we'd reached the end of this!

I went up into the attic and found another of the "later" cords. I'm pretty sure I got this one with a 512K, and it is noticeably different on the connector (female) end from the one that I got with the 1986 512Ke. It is possible that I have them mixed up, but I don't think so. The plug (male)...

Ah, that at least shows me where I got the idea the cords were made by Electricord: both ends of the "early" cord say "Electri Cord, Westfield, PA" on them in tiny print: Also, one possibly useful detail there. The "early" cord says "Electri Cord" while the later cord that came with my 512Ke...

I'm starting to think the "early" (ribbed) cord shown in that drawing and the manual is one that was designed especially for the Macintosh, while the one I thought was a later (angular) cord is an more generic Apple cord? Used for another Apple product, then revived for the 512Ke/Plus. I'm...

Okay, so I've got all the early manuals and while I wasn't sanguine, since the power cord is often cleverly hidden in promotional photos (to reduce the sense of clutter), nonetheless the cord is shown in the manual when it needs to be -- when they tell you to plug the machine in and turn it on...

Yeah, that and a current seller including what I thought was a later cord in what is being sold as a complete 1984 Week 34 set is what set off my uncertainty about this. Your suggestion about the manuals has borne fruit, but I'll put that in a separate reply.

Okay, so I'm the author of this ancient site: http://www.earlymacintosh.org I've recently been updating the links and such for it. The thing that triggered this was a question I got from a reader about the correct original power cords for the pre-SE machines. I've never addressed...

Thanks! I can only laugh about my assumption (that they were two different boxes, not different sides of the same box) -- at least I had the good sense to know I didn't have enough evidence to be sure, and didn't put such misinformation on my site... Still, I do have evidence that one of those...

It's worth noting that the 512Ke boxes were also updated in 1987 -- I never quite accumulated enough evidence (let alone decent photos) to cover the outer packaging in the systematic way that I handle other things on my site, but here's what I have: The 1986 first-gen 512Ke box: The 1987...

There are at least two early Mac Plus boxes, before the 1988+ boxes without color. As already noted, the boxes follow the changes in the manuals, etc., as tracked here: http://www.earlymacintosh.org/#Plus_manuals The 1986 first-generation Plus box: The 1987 second-generation Plus box:

With regard to whether it is a mere revision or a different model, the 512Ke has a different model number. It also had its own user manual and Plus-like packaging. If not for the System 3.1 Finder 5.2 bugs, it would have had its own initial OS as well. While I tend to see it as an upgrade to the...

Interesting approach -- I had not heard of that -- might make sense. I'm lazy and prefer to just pay once and then not think about it for two years or whatever. I've been happy with BlueHost and DreamHost. I think I prefer DreamHost, but only slightly -- certainly not enough to get me to go to...

Okay, I went with http://earlymacintosh.org :b&w:

There will be significant (about nine months) overlap between the end of the old iWeb/iDisk services and the start of the new iCloud stuff. So I'm going to wait until iCloud starts up and see what can be done. But it looks like the .Mac homepage URLs will stop working regardless. This sucks for...

Actually, Wikipedia is wrong there. The original OS for the Mac II was System 4.1 Finder 5.5. I've confirmed this from published reviews from the time. Indeed, it's uncertain that 4.0/5.4 will even boot a Mac II. The SE was shipped first, and came with 4.0/5.4. When the II began shipping a...

My question could probably be easily resolved with the 4.0/5.4 "Macintosh System Tools 1.0" disk. The 4.1/5.5 "Macintosh System Tools 2.0.1" disk includes an installer script for the II. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of the 4.0/5.4 System Tools disk -- I only have the 4.0/5.4 "Macintosh...

Someone has contacted me to tell me System 4.0 Finder 5.4 does not work on his Macintosh II (i.e., the 68020 machine). At least, he says it won't boot from an 800K disk with 4.0/5.4 on it. Does this sound right? I mean, it contradicts the table presented in the System 6 user guide (Figure A-1...

Yale seems to have all of MacWorld from the start and an incomplete set of MacUser from 1987, so I'll go in and see what is actually in the stacks. All of the town libraries around here don't keep stuff like this for more than three years or so -- I guess the storage requirements are too great.

No -- I think I tried to contact the buyer (this was before they started using truncated buyer names), but didn't get any response. Anyhow, I've completed the meat of my rewrite based on this thread. I'll probably edit it somewhat, but the argument will stay the same. Thanks so much for the...