Classic II!

[sambapati87]

Well -- grabbed a Classic II off Freecycle today -- little to no yellowing, 4MB of RAM, whiney caps. Original keyboard/mouse.

Worked when I saw it at the guy's place --- now that I'm home getting the "chimes of death" after intermittent gray screens.

I opened it up and saw that the capacitors are definitely going bad, so for now the board is soaking overnight in water. If anyone's interested, here are some pics of the process so far (took a shot of the ROM chips before removing them, which was harder than I thought, so I could make sure they go back in the same slots):

http://afd.gotdns.com/classicii/

I've always liked the Mac Classic designs.

 

[porter]

I've always liked the Mac Classic designs.

I've had a couple of Mac plusses, an SE and now a Classic. Compared to it's forerunners there is hardly any motherboard there!

 

[sambapati87]

You're right -- i was surprised by how small it was when I pulled it out of there.

 

[MultiFinder]

Awesome! I love the Classic II; it's a great little machine. Best thing I can suggest is to slap the full 10 megs of RAM in there, load 'er up with System 7.1, and watch it fly! If you *really* wanna go for extreme speed, find System 6.0.8L and stand back.

 

[Gil]

Is that water you're soaking it in, or some kind of chemical?

 

[drbalint]

Was this the one the guy had listed in upper arlington for 20 bucks? I noticed the post is gone. I noticed someone had a free g3 aio last week, I think the person who got it put it on the curb because I saw another one listed not far away a few days later. I think the person who got the g3 must have thought it could run os 10.5. I find it sad when that happens. Otherwise what software did the unit come with because I saw he had lots of disks and what not with it.

 

[sambapati87]

Yep -- this was UA. Meant craigs, not freecycle. I emailed the guy about the AIO but it was taken before I could get to it. No real use for it though. It always seems like I only have a user for the "really" old machines (like this Classic) or something modern enough to run Leopard, but never in between.

Haven't gotten it to boot since I saw it, but there were lots of things in the Applications folder. Got the following disks/manuals with it though:

MacWrite II

"The Surgeon" (game of some kind)

Aldus Freehand (!!! -- I'm a design major so that should be interesting)

"Games"

"Dungeon of Doom" (another game)

Superpaint 2.0

Rainbow(l?)

SAM Intercept

Disinfectant

Excel

Word

Microsoft Works

Books:

Macintosh System Software User's Guide (6.0.4)

Macintosh Utilities User's Guide

MicroCenter (computer store chain) Education "Intro to Mac"... this is like a workbook teaching system 6 -- must have been a class or something (full of the previous owner's notes)

MicroCenter Education "MS Works"

MacWrite II User's Guide

MacWrite II Getting Started

MacWrite II Quick Reference

...also to MacAttack - it's just tap water. I know I'll have to replace the capacitors at some point but I don't have the time or the patience at the moment (winter quarter just started at school).

 

[sambapati87]

Best thing about this conquest is the almost total lack of case-yellowing, especially since I wanted this one almost solely for the design.[/img]

 

[Unknown_K]

I got a free Classic II a while back (the last compact I got). When I snagged it it was dirty as hell and would not work (checkerboard screen or something like that). In stripped it (which I do for pretty mcuh everything I get these days), washed the board with hot tap water and some liquid dishwashing soap, scrubbed the case, and dried it. When I put it back together I upped the RAM to 10MB (max) and it actually works fine now.

You would be shocked to learn how many people snag old machines on freecycle/craigslist (free section) just to get it home and find out it is not what they expected and trash it. There are tons of people who wait online for a computer post and snag it without having a clue what the heck it is, which sucks for people like me who have do not check those sites every minute of every day.

 

[sambapati87]

It lives!

http://afd.gotdns.com/classicii/running.jpg