MacPlus Upgraded 128K

[Mac128]

Just saw this on eBay:

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/AutoBotPics/Macintosh%20M0001/?action=view&current=SoftwareRun.flv

Looks like a 128K that was upgraded all the way up to a Mac Plus. The interesting thing about it is that there is no rear label at all. Can't imagine why one would have been removed if it had been there in the first place.

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/AutoBotPics/Macintosh%20M0001/?action=view&current=9Dec_AD2007054.jpg

Is this how all the upgrades came, or maybe just the first ones?

Wonder what Apple did with all those old rear buckets?

 

[Charlieman]

Rear panels had a label on them post upgrade. I've seen lots. We've discussed elsewhere about rear panel label designs.

Assume that it has been removed for a criminal or abstract humaning reason. The serial code is probably still elsewhere.

 

[IPNixon]

I have a couple Plusses (Plusses? Pli? ) that was upgraded from either a 128 or 512. I've been too lazy to crack into it to see if there's any way to tell which one it was.

Mine has no labels on the front other than the Apple logo, and the back casing says "Mac Plus 1Mb".

 

[LCGuy]

The rear label is missing because this is no ordinary Mac - no, its the ultrasupersecret Mac Plus Plus Plus Super Duper Mega Ultra Limited Edition Colour Classic III prototype that has the 75 Mhz 68060, preproduction USB, FireWire, and a never-before seen preproduction version of Mac OS 8 that features all the neccessary support required for the machine. Come on...you all should know that by now! [)] ]'>

Charlieman: The serial number is on the front, at the bottom of the "lip" where the keyboard port is.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Mac Plus Plus Plus Super Duper Mega Ultra Limited Edition Colour Classic III prototype comes standard with a flux capacitor.

 

[bluekatt]

does it run on plutonium or just ordinairy garbage ?

 

[Mac128]

I have a couple Plusses (Plusses? Pli? ) that was upgraded from either a 128 or 512. I've been too lazy to crack into it to see if there's any way to tell which one it was.

As LCGuy points out quite strangely, the serial number is under the front left lip next to the contrast knob. That's how I KNOW which model it originally was. The seller includes a picture of it on the photobucket links and it was manufactured the 17th week of 1984, which means it was originally a Mac 128K.

So you don't really have to crack a Mac open to know what it was originally as long as the serial number is present. What it has become is easily determined by looking at the rear bucket, checking the About Finder for RAM info and noting the FDD type.

I figured the consensus would be vandalism about the missing label, but you never know, especially about the first run of something.