Just picked up a 128k

[blusnowkitty]

You never know what you’ll find when you’re browsing mislabeled items on eBay... Got a pretty good deal on this 128k! The only thing keeping it from booting was a single bad RAM chip which I removed and socketed. Now I’ve got it coming up to the missing disk screen! Unfortunately, the internal 400k drive is dead - the eject motor is burned out. I’ll probably be replacing it with a Floppy Emu at some point, but for now... I’m just happy to have a bucket list system. 

 

[Mr SN]

Nice score! 

 

[Juror22]

It sounds like it got to the right person, since you already fixed the main problem and have plans for the rest.

 

[blusnowkitty]

Update! Turns out the eject motor wasn't burned out. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but I found the missing parts (a C clamp and some washers) and suddenly the drive sprang back into life, motor and all.

 

[krishnadraws]

Woohoo!! Congrats!  

 

[AlpineRaven]

How exciting!

I did the same thing - it was plain front, I knew the sticker on the back and it only had "Macintosh" badge and I knew it was 128k - I didnt say anything and bought it, brought it home, fired it up - it needed RIFA chip and came up with RAM error - replaced all RAM chips to new ones, and fired her up - works well, even that original "tall boy" 400k floppy drive. Good score!
Cheers

AP

 

[joshc]

Great find. Now you need to source the original keyboard and numpad - I managed to find a set on eBay and bought them, cost me a little bit more than I wanted but it was worth it to get a more complete set

 

[mactjaap]

I’ve got one to! A catch you will always remember. It cost me $25. 
congrats!!!

 

[tappdarden]

Nice find!

everytime i pick up a '128k' it turns out its upgraded to a 512k or something.

 

[blusnowkitty]

Nice find!

everytime i pick up a '128k' it turns out its upgraded to a 512k or something.

I did find a cheap 512k... Analog board is dead, but I might do a board swap but'll keep the 128 board.