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Gotcha, totally makes sense. You're right about the battery holder - one of the posts is completely rotted away, while the other is barely holding on and not long for the world. Here's a pic which will haunt my nightmares for a while: In any case, I have another IIci I rescued from an e-waste...

Sighhhh... the battery did indeed puke its guts onto the logic board :/   Here are some updated pics showing what looks to be fairly severe corrosion / battery-juice damage: https://imgur.com/a/FloNF6d The corrosion on the RAM looks pretty bad, and the battery holder itself (not just the...

Got lucky on Craigslist and ended up with a nice Mac IIci for the low, low price of FREEEE! It’s in unknown functional status at the moment, and the original owner just asked that I copy off any data which I may find on the SCSI drive (should the drive even work). Pretty cool! Other than the...

Hahah, well said! I'm extremely happy to report that we paid $250 total for this entire haul :D   H.

Oooooh - congrats! Awesome stuff here :) Huxley

Thanks to some super-lucky timing with a local(ish) Craigslist ad last night, my family and I returned from a ~3 hour round-trip drive with the rear-end of my trusty Prius riding much lower than normal :D   Here's an album with pics: https://imgur.com/a/UBvt3MO Also pictured is my...

A stranger reached out to me via a local Facebook group in my town, because he had seen some of my retro computing posts and wanted to know if I might be interested in a couple of old laptops he was about to have e-waste recycled. Naturally, I said yes, and here’s what I ended up with: a pair of...

Howdy everyone, I've got an eMate 200 + a nicely-specced Apple Newton 2100, and an era-appropriate Mac Performa 575 to sync them with. I'm doing a fun little project for work and it occurred to me that it would be super cool to display the logo of my project on the Newton and/or eMate screen...

No solid plans at the moment, beyond the following: 1. My son (now ~10.5 years old) has recently started expressing an interest in "hacking," which I believe is heavily informed by age-appropriate adventure shows he's been watching. He's got a vague awareness that "hacking" involves "typing...

Speaking as another Bay Area person, I'm 50/50 split between "insanely jealous" and "insanely happy that you rescued all this stuff!" Well done, and congrats! Please keep posting as you work your way through the haul :D   H.

Oh awesome - thank you, @oldappleguy! I found a PDF of that manual early yesterday but the copy I found was not scanned especially well, and the details were a lot harder to make out - yours is much clearer! Excited to keep making progress with this :-) Huxley

I only picked up the plotter yesterday and other than cleaning it up and having it run through the built-in demo, I haven't connected it to anything yet. I was hoping to figure out what software I'll be using on the Mac before I hook it up, since I need to dig into my Giant Bin o' Cables to find...

Got it, thanks for the info! I actually spent about 90 minutes last night putzing with MacPlot Professional (the version available on MacintoshGarden), but nothing I did seemed to get it to show up in the Chooser. There's no documentation I've been able to find, so I'm pretty confident that I'm...

After Dark has always been my preferred screensaver on my vintage Macs, going back to being a kid hypnotized by the "Mountains" AD module. That said, I'm finding that the AD-alternative called Nova is actually a lot more stable and seems to suck up fewer CPU cycles, which is good for my Performa...

Hey @olePigeon! Hope it's okay that I'm resurrecting this old thread, but I'm curious: did you ever get this plotter 'talking' to a vintage Mac? I don't want to jinx it, but if all goes well I'll be picking up the same model plotter tomorrow and I'm already thinking about which era-appropriate...

I'm late to this party, but can't move on before adding myself to the list of people eagerly lining up to buy a few of these when they're ready! I've successfully deployed close to half-a-dozen SCSI2SD's now (both internal and external, installed in various Macs and two Amigas), but they're...

Thanks to some extreme good Craigslist luck and a willingness to take a long drive, I’ve now joined a pretty cool club: I’m the owner of an Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 712/100 UNIX workstation! Obviously this is not a classic Mac, but as one of the few "white box" machines that supported NeXTSTEP...

I have nothing to contribute here, other than my sheer astonishment and delight that a WalkMac is alive and running in 2020. I have vivid memories of reading about this thing in some Mac-centric magazine when I was a kid (maybe a mention or write-up in MacWorld or another magazine of that era)...

I'm honestly a little torn on this - part of me kinda loves that it has 'battle scars' from 30+ years of use, but then I see pics of some of the Cubes which have been professionally repainted and they look stunning and I start to think that I'll go that direction... I dunno.  H.  

Thanks to an outstanding package put together by our own @archer174 + amazingly generous encouragement and support from my wife, I'm now the overjoyed, can't-really-believe-his-luck owner of a pair of gorgeous NeXT computers: a NeXT Cube (well, technically a "NeXT Computer" since this one is a...