Complete Collection of Every Compact Mac?

[funkytoad]

Is there anyone on this forum or knows someone who has every model of compact mac? If not, is this possible? How much all of these would cost?

Sorry for all the questions. Just wondering!

 

[tomlee59]

It's certainly possible. I have every single one except for a CCII. The only one I paid real money for was the first Plus I owned, which I bought new in 1988 for the then-bargain price of $999US, thanks to a school discount. If I were really determined to have a complete set, I'd have to shell out some serious $$$ for a CCII. They're rare, and most are owned by Japanese who cherish them, and would only part with them reluctantly.

 

[pzler]

if you don't count the cc's then it wouldn't be difficult or expensive at all.

 

[zydeco]

All the iMacs count as compacts, do they?

 

[Kallikak]

They don't.

 

[~tl]

I believe Stuart Bell (the Power Colour Classic guy from Applefritter) was trying to collect them all... not sure if he ever managed it though.

 

[iMac600]

I think the widely regarded criteria for a Compact Mac fits somehow like this:

- 68k Processor

- AIO

- 9 or 10 Inch Screen

As such, it can also be called a Desktop Appliance. Others are just computers, and are built as such. I don't have any arguments against the iMac, or the criteria, all I can say is that's how it is in the Mac community.

 

[FunnymanSE30]

I have all the classics and 2 of the SEs, and a Plus, so I'm close.

 

[Kallikak]

You have a Colour Classic II??? Actually, if you are prepared to count a colour classic upgraded to a CCII rather than badged as one, the full set would not be too hard to acquire.

 

[MacMan]

I have a Plus, Classic, SE/30 and Colour Classic, so I will need to get my hands on a 128K, 512K and an SE if I want the full collection.

 

[The Macster]

I have a Plus, Classic, SE/30 and Colour Classic, so I will need to get my hands on a 128K, 512K and an SE if I want the full collection.

Make that a 128k, 512k, 512ke, Macintosh ED, Classic II, SE, SE FDHD, SE SuperDrive (I think there was one that says this on the case, even though the FDHD also has a SuperDrive), and Colour Classic II And a beige/platinum Plus (depending which one you've already got) if you really want everything. There's more than you might think...

 

[MacMan]

Oh dear, i forgot about the variations and completely disregarded the Classic II. I stand corrected, I have a long way to go!

I have a beige Plus at the moment, but did have a Platinum one at one point. Sold that one on eBay though and got £35 for it!

 

[The Macster]

I have a beige Plus at the moment, but did have a Platinum one at one point. Sold that one on eBay though and got £35 for it!

8-o 8-O 8-o For a Plus?! Woah, I'll have to think about putting mine up for sale! Was it a really good example or something, to get a price like that? They hardly go for anything normally, as far as I've seen. Was that a buy-it-now or a bid? I've found that you tend to get better prices for things (not Mac stuff though as I haven't sold any of that - I don't know whether this holds true for everything) by putting on high buy-it-nows as people for some reason go for them rather than bidding on another one and getting it for much less.

 

[MacMan]

It was by bids, but I offered it with an external 20MB hard drive, keyboard, mouse - the full works. I even included 4 1MB SIMMS so that the stock RAM could be upgraded to the full 4MB. It also had a clean-installed of System 6, Clarisworks and some games. The guy who bought it was local to me as well, so he came and picked it up directly.

 

[bluekatt]

It's certainly possible. I have every single one except for a CCII. The only one I paid real money for was the first Plus I owned, which I bought new in 1988 for the then-bargain price of $999US, thanks to a school discount. If I were really determined to have a complete set, I'd have to shell out some serious $$$ for a CCII. They're rare, and most are owned by Japanese who cherish them, and would only part with them reluctantly.

if they havent gutted them and ypgraded them to oblivion

very impresive and all but also very sad to see th orginal computer getting trashed like that even if it was a bastard

might be harder then you think to get 128k and 512 k macs because 128k was so little most have been converterted to 512k or 1 mb as soon as it was possible so they were usable

 

[equill]

I think the widely regarded criteria for a Compact Mac fits somehow like this:
- 68k Processor

- AIO

- 9 or 10 Inch Screen

... I don't have any arguments against the iMac, or the criteria, all I can say is that's how it is in the Mac community.

It also has logic on its side. If the definition of compact AIOs is completed:

- 9 or 10 Inch CRT Screen

- easily luggable

PowerBooks (of all kinds) and LCs with monitors are AIOs, but they are not compact AIOs because their non-CRT displays have to fold open to be used, or they are just plain too big to be compact. Minis and Pizza Boxes are compact, but not AIOs. Towers are not compact and not AIOs. CRT iMacs, FP iMacs, and G4 to Intel iMacs are AIOs but not compact.

The subject was well picked over in the old Forums, and no-one advanced a cogent reason why any but the Classic AIOs should be regarded as compact AIOs. They were the only desktops for which it made any sense to make, sell or buy carry-bags.

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[iMac600]

They were marketed as "Desktop Appliances" by Apple, classed in the same group as the standard Telephone.

I actually forgot the PowerBook's existed there for a moment, else I would have said CRT screen.

 

[equill]

... Make that a 128k, 512k, 512ke, Macintosh ED, Classic II, SE, SE FDHD, SE SuperDrive (I think there was one that says this on the case, even though the FDHD also has a SuperDrive), and Colour Classic II And a beige/platinum Plus (depending which one you've already got) if you really want everything. There's more than you might think...

If we get into minutiæ, Classic IIs with and without sound-holes on the left side over the internal speaker ... ? And how about 'official' upgrades, from 128K to 'Fat Mac' or Plus, 512K and 512Ke to Plus, SE to SE FDHD, Classic to Classic II, &c., &c. At the original prices of the compact AIOs, board-swap upgrade kits (often with a bucket-swap too) made good sense.

de

 

[FunnymanSE30]

You have a Colour Classic II??? Actually, if you are prepared to count a colour classic upgraded to a CCII rather than badged as one, the full set would not be too hard to acquire.

No not the color classics, i dont count those as compact macs.