Alternatively, you can email me: coxy@literatureclassics.com

-- Newly liberated 68k friends:
* "20DollarPowerBook" - Powerbook 190cs (garage sale find and desk-side Trapeze companion)
* "Rebound" - Outbound 2030E (garage sale find, runs fun old cellular automata program)
* "LeftoverPizzaBox" - Performa 450 (found headless, mouseless, and friendless at a church rummage sale)

-- Contraband workhorses:
* "8575G3" - Frankenmac with 8500 mobo and 250 MHz G3 inside a 7500 desktop case (cool 8500 A/V features and 8GB of HD in a 7500 case that fits in an entertainment center -- can surf the web on the TV)
* "7585e" - a 7500 mobo with a 200 Mhz 604e inside an 8500 tower case (the remainders from the preceding Frankenmac)
* "Victoria" - G3/400 Pismo powerbook (Wife's 'puter and road trip companion)
* "Albert" - G4/450 AGP Tower with older DVI Apple Cinema Display (great machine, but the monitor is too small )

-- other computer-like devices (not Macs, but they are my friends and I stick by my friends)
* Psion Series 5MX and Series 5 (The best little 12 oz clamshell computers ever! and 35 hrs on set of AAs!)
* 2 Prolinear Palmtop PCs (older small book-sized portable = Poquet PC clone w/ DOS 5 and MS-Works)
* Cambridge Instruments Z88 (old portable 8.5 x 11 x 1 machine from 1988)
* HP-48GX -- cuz HP makes the best calculators ever (have owned HP since 1977, I learned to program on an HP-25)
* too many other little digital friends to list'em all

G4From128k
Warrior Engineer and Trapeze Artist by Day
68kMLA Paratrooper in the CCC by Night

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* Cambridge Instruments Z88 (old portable 8.5 x 11 x 1 machine from 1988)

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HAR!™ now i KNOW you're my kinda crazy ole' coot! that's the second of sir clive's 2 pound beauties inducted into the inventory of the 68kMLA!

jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

Sgt. Thelip
Heavy Weapons Specialist
950 division
Liberated Macs: 12

Found a Mac Plus in the attic of this house. German keyboard. OS 6 or something, all in German. It's called Blunt, has 2.5Mb of RAM and an English install of OS 6.08.

Bought a Quadra 800 from eBay for £30. 24mb of RAM and nothing special, really. Had an ISDN card which I removed because it just scared me. OS8.1, though I toy with the idea of OS7.x just for it to zoom around. Got a 601 upgrade card coming in the post. Woo! I call it Stud.

And my IIci! Which I bought for £30 on eBay from some guy in London. Had to convince a friend to rent a car and help me collect it. (I can totally understand the hassle everyone is feeling over the current huge eBay find...). £30 for a IIci is a bit steep, I guess but it had a 1.2Gb hard drive (Easily impressed, I am.), an external CDROM drive (Needs a new SCSI cable though.), LaserWriter IInt (Works perfectly!), mouse, keyboard, 14" colour monitor, 56k modem, lots of cables and CDs and disks and stuff. Woo! :D

The IIci is called Chunk. It doesn't really do much yet apart from have the monitor on it.

Ooh, I must take a webcam photo of my desk.

I would like to get a Classic II, since that was the first Mac I ever used. And any PowerMac in a tower case. Rowr.

~counts pennies~

m.
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1. Quadra 840av - "Atramentous"
2. PowerBook Duo 280c - "Ocelot"
3. ColorClassic - "Slonta"
4. IIfx - "Ronin"
5. IIci - "Glitterboy"
6. LC 475 - "Tang"
7. Plus - "Pushkin"

1. Quadra 840av - "Muad'Dib"
2. SE/30/50MHz - "Harkkonen"
3. SE/30 - "Atreides"
4. IIci w/ Radius Precsion 8 Color - "Boston"
5. IIci w/ Dual AAUI Ethernet- "Chicago"
6. LC475 - "Viper"
7. LC - "Origin"
8. Mac Portable - "iBrick"
9. LCIII - "Maranello"

That's all my 68ks. I have another 5 non 68k machines but who cares about those

--
Mark Benson

Visit FlatPackMacs Online
http://fpm.gotdns.com

We have feets

Wooohoo! I have a green star

Macs Liberated = 10

PowerBook 165c: FlyingColours (this is the "nekkid PowerBook", until i get some time to transplant it into the 180c case)

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Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!!

thelip adds TWO Quadra 950's to the list... AGAIN proving that 950's come in pairs. I want to know what's up with this.

~Marchie

~Chaplain Marchie

Quadra 840av: Calvin

Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA
Liberated:
LCII , III+
IIci
Quadra 700 (w/contraband card), 800, and 840av
P550, 410

Contraband:
Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz
(2) 6100's

Keeper of the 68kmla Hotline mirror server:
68k.dns2go.com

• 1 x Plus
  
• 2 x Classic
  
• 1 x SE/30
  
• 1 x LC III
  
• 1 x LC 475
  
• 2 x PM 6100
  

I will update this post later with a list of Macs and names, once I have all of them named - having them all in nameless stacks is not very conducive to inspiration, I find.

GORDOOM
Commander, Academic Operations Reserve
(University of Toronto, St. George Campus)
total Macs liberated: 22
(as of June 5, 2002)

Duo 280: Deuce

Too bad it can't keep enough charge to get the little deuce coupe of a powerbook to start!

macdaddy
68KMLA Field Meteorologist
68K Macintosh Liberation Army

I have a stack of contraband (7 of them) that I have not really named (contraband 1-7). My main computer is an ibook 500 a.k.a. snowflake.

We'll get the PPCs out of the way first:

500MHz iBook: Sular
Beige G3 MiniTower (heavily upgraded): Callisto
PowerTower Pro 225: Monolith
Beige G3 Desktop: Althea (prob. dead)

68k...

LCII: Slim
Classic II: Hactar (the third fastest computer in history, according to the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
II: Memnon
840AV: The Runny Kid (confusing inside joke)
Powerbook 165: Sylvia
Mac 512k: Ballast

Also liberated and sent on to good homes:
Performa 4xx (I can't remember exactly)
2 SEs
IIcx
7200/75: Boblo the Sailor

Also have an original Newton MessagePad named Infernal.

8100/G3 - Dhaulagiri
Q800 - Annapurna
Q950 - Qogir
Q700 - Trango

As you may have observed... I have a thing about towers. Somehow they seem so much cooler than prone boxes.

"It's better to die on your feets than live on your knees"

Cheers!
CC

Air Marshall, 605 sQUADRAn

Honest-to-god, by-the-book liberations: 15, Other 68Ks: 5, Contraband: 7, PCs: Is you mad?

Classic II "Gigan"
LC "Baragon"
Performa 636 "Megalon"
Power Mac 6115 "Godzilla"
Power Mac 7100 "Mecha-Godzilla"
PowerBook 1400 "Gadzuki"

mathgeek

Drum roll please.............................

Quadra 840av(Sulley)

Performa 400(which I am selling & so wont name cos as "Mike" says "your not supposed to name it, if you name it you start becoming attached to it")

ppl continually include ppc so I feel justified to include my 2 Atari st's, I never named them though as it just seemed plain daft.

shaktiman

SE FDHD (1)
Classic (1)
SE/30 (1)
PowerBook 145 (1)
PowerBook 160 (2)
PowerBook 165 (2)
PowerBook 170 (1)
LC 580 (2)
Quadra 610 (1)

I used to have more, but many of them were given away to people who would put them to good use.

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I've now updated the webpages up to HERE. Feel free to add more!

~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City v3.0

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Mac 512ke
Mac Plus (Platinum)
Mac Plus (Beige)
Mac SE
Mac II
Mac IIcx
2 Mac IIci
Mac IIfx
Mac Classic
Mac LC
Mac IIsi - Sledgehammer
Quadra 700
LC II
PowerBook 145 - RetroBook
Color Classic - Beige Rainbow
Mac LC III
Centris 610
Quarda 650
PowerBook 165c
Quadra 605
Mac TV
Quadra 630

Aftermac

A bandoned, F orgotten, T ortured, E ndangered, R etro, M acintosh, A cquisition, C ommando

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You're right, it was actually jt who recorded the first known use of "MongoBook." Oops, I'll fix it sometime in the future...

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jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

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I think that I've heard BabyPB before: for just about any model of 68k PowerBook, especially Duos.
I was referring to the website update, see The Website Forum for details. Or, if you could have read anyof the memos our department issues...

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jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

As I have stated numerous times, there's a 'forum' on the main page that is a hyperlink. Perhaps you've wondered what "The Website Itself" is, right under "The Website Forum"?

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As I have stated numerous times, there's a 'forum' on the main page that is a hyperlink. Perhaps you've wondered what "The Website Itself" is, right under "The Website Forum"?

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woohooooo!!!!!! finally!

looks great, now watch the counter and see if we get more hits on the site, it was weeks before i figured out that we had one. i'm also glad to see that the "needs just a little work" notice is gone! i think that's one of the things that kept me from clicking the link when i was a noob!

good work, ~coxy!

jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

IIci: "Eternity"
Eternity was originally my family's first real Mac (we previously had a Lisa 2). However, at various points I have owned up to 3 IIcis simultaneously and the parts got swapped so many times that it's probably not the same Mac anymore. It was my personal computer for about six years, but after that, I started cannabalizing its components for giveaway machines. Currently equipped with 8 MB of RAM, 40 MB original Apple HD, a DayStar 40Mhz '040 card, Futura SX accelerated video, two Asante Ethernet cards, a 17" ultra-heavy display from Digital, an external 800k floppy, and a 6x caddy-loading NEC CD-ROM. It now refuses to shut down, displaying the same dialog as an LC and not responding to power-button presses. It may have become sentient or something. It will eventually end up as an Ethernet-to-LocalTalk bridge in my network closet.

Color Classic: unnamed
A gift from a friend of mine who didn't want it taking up kitchen space any longer. Maxed out except for the FPU (have spares? contact me!) and equipped with an Apple IIe card.

Mac Plus: "Mr. T"
Not sure how I got it. My mom once used it for a writing computer because it was so quiet. Equipped with 800k external floppy and wide-margin ImageWriter I. Beige version with matching peripherals. 1 MB RAM.

Duo 280: unnamed
This one has an interesting history. I was at the Trenton Computer Fair and this guy was selling a Duo Dock with an Ethernet card for $25 - with an unknown Duo stuck in it. I figured that I could extract it and maybe I'd be lucky and get a high-end model. Many jokes were made about the Sword in the Stone and such. Well, I got it home, got it out, and now I'm the King of England. If it has a hard drive, it doesn't show it, but it works fine while docked. Needs battery and new case latch.

Well, I thought this list would be longer, but I'm down to 4 working 68ks right now, plus an LC with no floppy, HD, RAM or VRAM, and an Apple Set-Top Box production proto (the black one, not the gray one) that boots but won't give me any video. I've given away two well-equipped IIcis, a 6220CD, and a Duo 230 to pleased recipients.

as for contraband:
G4/AGP: "Nexus" - upgrades too many and too detailed to list, this is my primary box
PowerBook 1400/166: "Minion"
7200/120 PC Compatible: mostly stripped, not currently in use
Casio 9850G color graphing calc: hope to build serial interface for it, quite Maclike in some respects
Sharp personal disorganizer: can't remember model number, also hope to build serial interface for it
IBM ValuePoint 486DX4/100: "Footrest" - fast, ugly, made entirely of sheet metal, has ISA slots
And a GREAT BIG PILE of HP Series 80 machines and compatible hardware. Takes up two closets and a good part of the basement. If you live in New Jersey or Pennsylvania and know what to do with it, please, help yourself. Bring a shovel.

- Mac llci "Phat Daddy"
- Mac SE SuperDrive "My Baby"
- Performa 550 with 040 Upgrade "The New Commer"
- Mac Classic " The Train Ride Mac" This mac cost me from almost being stranded in Portland Oregon.
- Mac 512k "Foot Stool"
- Mac SE "The Sucsesor"

My 68k Collection has been dramatically cut.

Jeremy

"I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd

• 128K
• 512K
• 512Ke (My first Mac was a 512Ke I bought in 1986)
(This one has a HD-20 external floppy-port drive)
• Centris 610
• Classic
• Duo 280c "littlewolf"
• IIci (4, including one prototype "dave", and one 50Mhz/128M "bofh")
• IIcx
• IIfx (2) "pepe" and "penelope"
• IIsi (3)
• LC
• LC II
• LC III
• Plus (2)
• Quadra 605
• Quadra 610
• Quadra 650
• Quadra 660av
• Quadra 700
• Quadra 840av "quadzilla"
• Quadra 950 (2)
• SE (2)
• SE FDHD (3)
• SE/30 (2, one with 128M "wolfcub")

Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy!

mac portable (backlit) - "big brother" (mac portables are lik a big bro to the lil' powerbooks)
mac portable (non-backlit) - "survivor" (the bank of amarica treats their elecronics very badly, and that's where it came from)
centris 650 - "yellow hatred" (one of the connecters on the video out of that mac are apparently broken, tinting the screen yellow... oh how I hate yellow...)
mac II - "PAL" (take a good guess)
mac IIsi - "guy" (guy helps me pick up chicks, nitz guy! you should get one!) -note, it didnt help me, I just hope it might someday-

but this is only the ones I have. the other 6 were sold before I could name them...

my contraband is as follows...

beige G3 AIO - "heavy hefner" (60 LBs of G3 goodness)

I also have a newton MP2000 named john (I like the name john. that's what I'm gonna name my pet)

thnx
"one man's junk, is another man's tresure!"

PB 520c - "The Big Mac"
PB 520 - "McChicken"
PB 520 - "McRib"
PB 170 - "Medium Fries"
LC - "Nugget"

All are For Sale now in the For Sale forum. Can you say "Would you like to SuperSize that?"

-Thog

It's sort of nice to know that my boyfriend and i aren't the only mac liberators out there.

Between us we've got a lot. I'll ask him to check this when he wakes up, and see if i missed anything.

Note: we live in different parts of the country now... soon to change, and we'll have our own 'lil Mac farm.

I've Got:
PB G4 500 (my main squeeze)
PM 7600/200
Performa 6214
Performa 6115/CD
Newton 130
PB 190
SE/30
Apple //c

Boyfriend's Got:
G4 450
G3 Biege
Performa 6200
Duo 280 w/ mini doc
Quad 650

When we live together, it's chaos.

Also in the family:
Mom - iMac
Dad - PM 7300/180 at home
Dad - G4, Performa 6214, (2)Mac Pluses
Sister and boyfriend - Biege G3, and Mac IIsi
Grandma - Performa 630CD

Damn!!!

BTW, the topic is 68Ks, not every Mac you own.

/Mr Lynn

Unused Machines:
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Classic
Classic II
Mac II
Mac IIvx
Mac IIsi
Portable (anyone know where to find a replacement mobo, cheap?)
2 LCs

...and four PowerPC machines, but they're not as cool...

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