Huge Compact Conquest in Charlotte!!!

[Scott Baret]

For $20 on Craigslist:

--Mac Plus. Not in the best cosmetic shape but I was told it works. Unsure about RAM but I do hope to fire it up tonight! Has keyboard and mouse. Very yellowed platinum model with 1987 manufacture date.

--Mac Classic. OK shape cosmetically. Also said to be working but will get tested tonight (also to see RAM and HD). Manufactured March 1991, likely has Revision A analog board.

--Apple 20SC hard drive. The enclosure alone was worth the money, but it gets better...

--Data Cell brand external SCSI drive. Yes, TWO ZFP hard drives in one conquest!!!

(also should point out the 20SC has one of those pass-through terminators on it, which I know we had a discussion about not long ago in which we found they weren't that common...)

--ImageWriter I with extra ribbon.

--Mac Plus manual, MS Word 3.0 manual (but no disks for Word or either computer)

--2400 baud modem. You never know, I just may find a use for it!!!

--Two RAM SIMMs. Makes me believe one of these computers was upgraded at some point and these are the old ones.

Will report back on the working condition/specs of these two computers and of course the SCSI drives!!!

 

[Scott Baret]

OK--update on the condition of the Macs:

Plus works great! It's got 2.5MB RAM installed and booted fine from one of my 6.0.7 floppies.

Classic needs a little analog board work--the screen jumps around a bit. (Just needs new solder, right?) The internal HD conks out now and then (definitely a Quantum from the sound of it) and it has 2MB RAM. There's also a thin white line down the screen on this one. (Anyone know what all I'd have to do to get this one on its feet again?)

Neither external HD will spin up. It's OK though since I value the enclosure more than the drive itself; the Data Cell definitely has a Quantum inside it. I'll have to pop them open this weekend and then get some new drives for these enclosures when I'm home (or see if I can spin either up; more or less I'm just curious as to what capacity they are).

Haven't tried the Imagewriter I yet. I'd try the modem but I don't have a landline telephone connection!

 

[Macdrone]

Classic issues scream of analog board recapping. Mine does the same and I have a bunch of boards and they are all the same. Usually funky video is followed by no sound issue. Also recap of board in the classic is going to be a must. At least with 2 megs of ram in in you know you have the memory expansion board in it. If the plus has more than a meg of ram the resistor mod has already been done so it can be bumped to 4 also.

Gratz on the haul!!

 

[TheMacGuy]

Talk about a lot of bang for your buck! Congrats!

 

[onlyonemac]

Glad you got one ZFP for each Conpact!