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Four Classics and a Quadra

Someone should make a movie with a title like that....

Anyway, I can report that an advert on www.kijiji.ca led me to four Classics, three working, and three with the 4MB ram upgrade, along with a Classic with no crt. The latter looks to have the best of the four cases, however, and an inventory of other usable parts.

I also took (as I was asked and as the guy was moving house and in a bit of a state, but evidently not wanting to put it all out at the kerb) an empty Mac Plus case (yellowed), intended at one stage on its journey in a past life for a Macquarium, methinks. It never made it there, and now I have to figure out quite what to do with it.

As a bonus, and possibly because people willing to take this stuff are rare, I was offered a Quadra 800 in very good condition, which booted up on my return home to reveal 65MB ram but alas, no nubus or pds niceties. I am a Quadra fan, and this is a new model for me. The 'new' Q800 is in so much better shape than my 840av - which is falling apart and such a shame!

Along with this I picked up two Apple Extended Keyboards and one of the small ones that shipped c. 1993, the name of which I forget just now. And some keyboard cabling, which is always useful with so many (50+) machines.

Two pristine Starmax towers were also on offer, but I have to draw the line somewhere; clones is that line – the 'clonesline'. Aren't I a wit.

All for free. Anyone in SW Ontario want a working Classic? I don't need three.

 
Score! Epic conquest on a Quadra packed so full of RAM :D

I always liked the classics; I've been meaning to replace the CRT guts in mine for a while now; I'll get around to it eventually ::)

 
Score! Epic conquest on a Quadra packed so full of RAM :D
I always liked the classics; I've been meaning to replace the CRT guts in

mine for a while now; I'll get around to it eventually ::)
great score.....yeah, the Q 800, was a great mac...'member reading in mac world,around the time of it's release, how it performed ' faster' on many chores than the flagship Quadra 950..which costed thousands more..

of course, the 950, had far more upgrade paths and potential....but

the 800, really rocked a lot of mac fan's worlds...until the arrival of the

almighty 840AV ....

Finding classics with those 'ram' cards is nice. The fans on the bottom of the MB chassis, really get clogged up with lint, dirt, and other junk.

sure wish they were the classic II..........been jonesing for one, for eons, well..actually a MB for one...however, I did get my faulty mb to finally boot up..but the ram slots need to be replaced...due to age..very brittle

amazing how some of the plastic and metal in these classics ( and other compact macs ) age badly....as Mick Jagger once sang..

' what a drag, it is getting old ' .....

again two thumbs up for a nice score..

 
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