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One more vote for the Classic and Classic II. I'd not hesitate to turn a duff one into a MacQuarium, whereas an SE/30 or Plus you'd put some effort into sourcing replacement internals to resurrect. Yes, the SE/30 was a high end machine whereas the Classics were cheap low end machines. There are...

Heheh no worries. For a second there I thought you knew me from my time in Melbourne a decade ago. Do they still have those Mac trader fairs at the uni (can't remember which one) that they used to have years back? I think it was iMug who held them. They were cool... I remember buying an armload...

That's what my mother called me...

Neat idea, though when I used it to see if it would log into Facebook I got a phishing warning and then Facebook kicked up a stink about someone trying to log into my account from a 3rd party site. eBay completely stalls. Twitter craps itself. Various newspaper sites are quite usable though...

LocalTalk's pretty cool... I used to hook in old ethernet-less Macs to the home network using my IIfx as a bridge. Slow as molasses though! Then again, Econet was even slower! BBC Model B was a neat system - first computer I ever used (not counting the Tomy Tutor Play Computer!). They're what...

Hi all, I'm toying with the idea of acquiring a LaserWriter and actually putting it to use as a main printer in my house. This would be partially to fulfil a desire to simply have one in the collection - I regret not getting one back in 2002 when I had the opportunity - but would (or at least...

I've recently started thinking about adding to my vintage Apple collection after a few years of more or less forgetting about it. The change from 5-10 years ago is incredible, at least as far as eBay is concerned anyway. Once upon a time a Classic was worth just a few bucks so you could use the...