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GORDOOM Junior Member Canada 208 Posts	Posted - 05 Jun 2002 : 17:55:09 OK, this is getting ridiculous! I went down to the Swap Shop today, and got three more Macs! (Namely, two 6100's and a 475.) That brings the total number of Macs in my room to twenty-four! (And add to that a couple PCs that I have lying around - some being stored for people travelling over the summer, some destined to become Unix boxen...) I've got to do something about this, or in three months my RAF (room-mate approval factor) is going to be in the negative numbers! I also got the Portrait Display I mentioned earlier, plus a working LaserWriter 12/640. Unfortunately, the LaserWriter is having difficulties. I think it needs a new fuser drum - it's leaving grey bars horizontally across the page at regular intervals. But other than that, it's working beautifully... GORDOOM Commander, Academic Operations Reserve (University of Toronto, St. George Campus) total Macs liberated: 19 (as of May 29, 2002) "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 05 Jun 2002 : 19:31:35 quote: OK, this is getting ridiculous! I went down to the Swap Shop today, and got three more Macs! (Namely, two 6100's and a 475.) That brings the total number of Macs in my room to twenty-four! . . . . I also got the Portrait Display I mentioned earlier . . . . if you have a surfeit of the microquadra variety, i heard there is a ghoulish predator lurking about disemboweling the poor little creatures and stacking their innards like cordwood! you wouldn't need a cable for a portrait monitor in trade for one that i could set out as bait in hopes of stopping the fiend's murder spree before he attacks my beloved 475 or 605 would you? jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 06 Jun 2002 : 05:46:25 Is there such a thing as too many Macs? AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:21
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 06 Jun 2002 : 06:06:07 quote: Is there such a thing as too many Macs? dunno, guess it depends if you're asking me or the XSAF! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 06 Jun 2002 : 14:17:54 quote: quote: Is there such a thing as too many Macs? dunno, guess it depends if you're asking me or the XSAF! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF Ex-Spouse Approval Factor? -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
SiliconValleyPirate Junior Member United Kingdom 273 Posts	Posted - 06 Jun 2002 : 14:47:17 When you no longer can get into bed for an afternoon nap of a quiet Sunday because you have Macs all over the bed you know you have too many. In my case I am almost that bad at the moment. I have 3 in my housemate's room (my 3 7x00s) and I've got a pair of IIci's stacked up under my desk. I'm on 0 room here. I may have to airlift a couple out of here -- Mark Benson FlatPackMacs http://fpm.gotdns.com 2nd Lieutenant - 68kMLA LC Quartermaster Flat Packing Macs for 68k MLA airlift excercises Macs Liberated = 14! Edited by - siliconvalleypirate on 06 Jun 2002 14:48:05
GORDOOM Junior Member Canada 208 Posts	Posted - 07 Jun 2002 : 09:08:12 Pirate, I know the feeling well - my old room was like that! And my room in the apartment will be too, if I'm not careful... Trash: I might be interested in a trade of that nature - there's actually a bunch of stuff I'm getting rid of, and a bunch of stuff that I need. Please email me or reply to my new thread: Time for some spring cleaning GORDOOM Commander, Academic Operations Reserve (University of Toronto, St. George Campus) total Macs liberated: 19 (as of May 29, 2002) "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 07 Jun 2002 : 09:57:25 quote: Pirate, I know the feeling well - my old room was like that! And my room in the apartment will be too, if I'm not careful... I gave up worrying about that about the same time I realised there was just too much to move. I think I have as much room taken up by furniture here as I do by macs n monitors n bits. It looks funny, visitors have something to talk n laugh about... and I don't mind, living just by m'self :D. dana
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 11 Jun 2002 : 13:12:33 I'm like the only one that has storage space for more macs, and the PAF won't let me get any more. I need more TABLES, POWERSTRIPS, ETHERNET CARDS, AND CIRCUITS! _________________ Captain SCCHICAGO HotLineServer(closed): scchicago.dynodns.net Website(closed): http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 11 Jun 2002 : 13:29:52 quote: I'm like the only one that has storage space for more macs, and the PAF won't let me get any more. I need more TABLES, POWERSTRIPS, ETHERNET CARDS, AND CIRCUITS! patience! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
Da Penguin Senior Member USA 1094 Posts	Posted - 17 Jun 2002 : 14:04:36 well see, this is an easy problem to fix, get rid of your furniture! Yup, build new furniture out your macs then. This way u will barely know they are there. Kinda like that one article i read somewhere, posted in here too, with the warehouse of macs.... I dunno. ~The Penguin \| Captain, Intelligence Operations / Space Cowboy \| There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. 68k.torpedobird.com <-- Hotline Server
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 17 Jun 2002 : 15:54:36 quote: well see, this is an easy problem to fix, get rid of your furniture! Yup, build new furniture out your macs then. This way u will barely know they are there. Kinda like that one article i read somewhere, posted in here too, with the warehouse of macs.... I dunno. ~The Penguin Can't Macs are too valuable at this time. I don't have many of them. _________________ Leutennant SCCHICAGO HotLineServer(closed): scchicago.dynodns.net Website(closed): http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 24 Jun 2002 : 09:16:52 quote: Is there such a thing as too many Macs? AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:21 Never! ----- New Hotline! address: 216.130.83.218 l/p guest/68000 TCP/IP server : 216.130.83.218 L: 68kmla p:68000 Http Server URL: Http://homepage.mac.com/catsdorule/ Promoted to private June 5 2002 Currently posted in the Canadian Battalion.
Captain Z Mobile Ops Commander USA 637 Posts	Posted - 29 Jun 2002 : 13:16:25 quote: OK, this is getting ridiculous! I went down to the Swap Shop today, and got three more Macs! (Namely, two 6100's and a 475.) That brings the total number of Macs in my room to twenty-four! I know what you mean. I have 26, and will have at least 29 by the end of the summer.I am expecting something in the range of 35 by September. ------------------ Captain Z - Mobile Operations Commander 68K Macintosh Liberation Army 20 68K Macs Liberated Visit Captain Z's Starbase of EV Stuff
titok16 Junior Member USA 116 Posts	Posted - 02 Jul 2002 : 23:40:51 wish i had anything close to that....i have 3 powerbooks that i keep stored in my ibook se366 case :( send me macs, please! tito Tito Hawaiian 68k sniper Macs Liberated: Powerbook 145(kia) Powerbok 150(kia) Powerbook 160(kia) Apple \\c (now dead)
aftermac New Member USA 80 Posts	Posted - 10 Jul 2002 : 21:11:57 quote: OK, this is getting ridiculous! I went down to the Swap Shop today, and got three more Macs! (Namely, two 6100's and a 475.) That brings the total number of Macs in my room to twenty-four! Twenty-four is just a little shy of two of each Mac, so must not have enough. Aftermac A bandoned, F orgotten, T ortured, E ndangered, R etro, M acintosh, A cquisition, C ommando 5 Apples, 23 liberated 68k's, 9 contraband PPC's, and a Duo Dock
Slomac636 Junior Member USA 103 Posts	Posted - 28 Jul 2002 : 12:32:28 I personally don't believe one could have too many Macs, but with obvious factors involvded, one could find themselves having to make TOUGH choices. In my case SAF is an issue, she's a tosser, and I'm a keeper. She's already asking me when I'm going get rid of what I have. I've only got 6 at this point, and plan to acquire more, so this will take planning. I think if I keep the visible numbers low, my plan can succeed. I keep a couple in boxes and take them out occasionally, so she dosen't really know exactly what I have.
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 29 Jul 2002 : 02:00:07 Yes I got two & my wife had a cow, now every other night she opens the door to the computer room & says "have you sold it yet!!!" lol I wonder if this is a hack but what I'm thinking is to build my macs into the walls of my house, thereby hiding them. If I then get keypads ala star trek then I could access the macs. Come to think about it my house has a couple of dodgy walls, perhaps someone should buil a house out of macs. shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive 2 monitors 15" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem Stylewriter 1200 Zodiac speakers Umax 1220s scanner 3 year old son!
Stryder Junior Member USA 382 Posts	Posted - 30 Jul 2002 : 06:46:04 quote: Yes I got two & my wife had a cow, now every other night she opens the door to the computer room & says "have you sold it yet!!!" lol I wonder if this is a hack but what I'm thinking is to build my macs into the walls of my house, thereby hiding them. If I then get keypads ala star trek then I could access the macs. Come to think about it my house has a couple of dodgy walls, perhaps someone should buil a house out of macs. shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive 2 monitors 15" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem Stylewriter 1200 Zodiac speakers Umax 1220s scanner 3 year old son! A "House-Of-Mac"?..........I LOVE IT!!!!! As athe numbers have been growing here, I've kind have gone with a plan of building a Mac-Lab out of my attic. Kind of a token rememberance of the old high school days when they first did it. I'm not even sure what I'm up to anymore. After a weeks va-ca in Cape Cod with my daughter, we drove back with sitting room only after the car was filled with new aquirements. I think "House-Of-Mac" should be Dana's next picture project. Who else could give the vision the attention it deserves? Current Mac's: Mac Plus, SE30, Classic, LCII, (2) LC550, Centris 650, 7100/80, Performa 6214, PB2300c Duo w/dock, G3/400 "Shine On" [;-)]
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 30 Jul 2002 : 17:18:35 I always wanted to set up my pizzaboxes into a BoloLAN rack, but lack the space and the monitors. But, they have one here at uni anyway... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
Thog Starting Member USA 9 Posts	Posted - 04 Aug 2002 : 21:41:48 Too many macs? NEVER! I've got 45! (Of which 39 are 68K!) :-) (What's really cool is that my spouse likes my hobby...) -Thog Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy!
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 05 Aug 2002 : 00:12:36 quote: Too many macs? NEVER! I've got 45! (Of which 39 are 68K!) :-) (What's really cool is that my spouse likes my hobby...) -Thog Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy! omg! COOL!!!!!! -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
gdogkzo Junior Member 147 Posts	Posted - 05 Aug 2002 : 07:47:59 Ok, this is totally true: Here goes: LC and LCII - 38 Total LCIII - 10 LC475 - 2 IIcx - 3 IIci - 15 II - 2 IIvx - 1 Q700 - 3 C650 - 4 Quadra 610 - 1 PowerPC 6100/60 - 2 PowerPC 8100/110 - 1 PowerPC 8500/120 - 1 Custom Built SE/40 - 1 Mac 512 - 2 Mac 128 - 1 (has 512 motherboard, but im wroking that out) Plus - 1 Color Classic - 1 Parts: LC Ethernet Cards (tons) Nubus " " " MINI EN/SC - 1 MacLand 80MB Hard Disk - 1 Offbrand 800k Drive - 1 M0131 800k - 2 9 Pin M0100 Mouse - 5 M0110 - 3 M0110A (tan) - 2 M0120 Keypad - 1 HD20 - 1 20SC - 1 CDSC - 1 Keyboard II - 2 Ext KBD II - 7 Ext KBD - 1 Keyboard - 4 ADB Design - 5 ADB Mouse - 7 Mouse II - 6 Logitech Mouse MAn MAc - 2 Tan Mac Carry Bag - 1 Monitors: Misc VGA/SVGA - 7 Mac Basic Color Display - 1 Color Display - 5 12 RGB - 8 HighRes RGB - 2 HighRes Mono - 1 15 Multiscan - 4 14 Multiscan - 2 Apple Color Plus - 7 Sony 20 - 1 (not apple) Supermac 19" - 1 Compaq 19" (currently broken) - 1 17" - 2 Printers: Brother HL-10H (postscript) - 1 Stylewroter II - 1 Stylewroiter 1500 - 2 Deskwriter 550C - 1 " 560C - 1 Beat that, or trade me some thing for a 400k external drive or MAc 128 or MAc 128 motherboard. Geoff
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 05 Aug 2002 : 11:28:53 I'm replying but am not sure y. It has made me smile(reading the posts) "the house that Mac built"? shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive 2 monitors 15" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem Stylewriter 1200 Zodiac speakers Umax 1220s scanner 3 year old son!
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 05 Aug 2002 : 11:33:19 Ahhhhhhhhh I remember now. I wanted to reply to Gordoom's origional post(or at least his title). Perhaps you should take your macs to the MRI where sexy nurses would clean them up & wrap them delicatley with bandages. shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive 2 monitors 15" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem Stylewriter 1200 Zodiac speakers Umax 1220s scanner 3 year old son!
Syrex314 Starting Member USA 15 Posts	Posted - 09 Aug 2002 : 22:56:37 quote: When you no longer can get into bed for an afternoon nap of a quiet Sunday because you have Macs all over the bed you know you have too many. Wait a sec-- what's wrong with that? "Where the ocean meets the sky, I'll be sailing..."
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 10 Aug 2002 : 12:15:26 quote: Pirate, I know the feeling well - my old room was like that! And my room in the apartment will be too, if I'm not careful... when you're spending your saturday pulling piles of electronics projects out of boxes and thinking you might not finish in time to clear it up to get to your bed at all it's time to start thinking about getting out and finding some new _AF! quote: Trash: I might be interested in a trade of that nature - there's actually a bunch of stuff I'm getting rid of, and a bunch of stuff that I need. Please email me or reply to my new thread: Time for some spring cleaning i finally got down to canal street and nabbed two Sun Video Cables this morning! (there are also about three Sun Mice of a couple of varieties, a strange Sun Speaker cable and a pile of other Sun cable doo-dads and crud in the box, but i think all the keyboards were gone, i didn't really look.) one of these would probably work fine between a Portrait Card and a Portrait, but that'd be a waste, MicroQuadra on-board video is far superior as is the Portrait output of my pile of NuBus video accelerator cards. i chopped the one i tested in two already and i'm in the middle of documenting a conversion. Let me know if you're still interested in a Portrait Cable swap for anything! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 10 Aug 2002 12:16:09
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 10 Aug 2002 : 12:54:42 My problem is as follows, I can't get enough of one model of macintosh to justify selling them My plan is to eventually start cleaning, painting and selling old macs, particularly the compacct models My only problem is the CRTs, being only 14, I have alot to live for, and I'm smaller than an adult, so it's more likely to hurt me more if I don't discharge the CRT right... :sigh: I also need to try A/UX on a mac
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 10 Aug 2002 : 20:16:10 quote: Ok, this is totally true: Here goes: LC and LCII - 38 Total LCIII - 10 LC475 - 2 IIcx - 3 IIci - 15 II - 2 IIvx - 1 Q700 - 3 C650 - 4 Quadra 610 - 1 PowerPC 6100/60 - 2 PowerPC 8100/110 - 1 PowerPC 8500/120 - 1 Custom Built SE/40 - 1 Mac 512 - 2 Mac 128 - 1 (has 512 motherboard, but im wroking that out) Plus - 1 Color Classic - 1 Parts: LC Ethernet Cards (tons) Nubus " " " MINI EN/SC - 1 MacLand 80MB Hard Disk - 1 Offbrand 800k Drive - 1 M0131 800k - 2 9 Pin M0100 Mouse - 5 M0110 - 3 M0110A (tan) - 2 M0120 Keypad - 1 HD20 - 1 20SC - 1 CDSC - 1 Keyboard II - 2 Ext KBD II - 7 Ext KBD - 1 Keyboard - 4 ADB Design - 5 ADB Mouse - 7 Mouse II - 6 Logitech Mouse MAn MAc - 2 Tan Mac Carry Bag - 1 Monitors: Misc VGA/SVGA - 7 Mac Basic Color Display - 1 Color Display - 5 12 RGB - 8 HighRes RGB - 2 HighRes Mono - 1 15 Multiscan - 4 14 Multiscan - 2 Apple Color Plus - 7 Sony 20 - 1 (not apple) Supermac 19" - 1 Compaq 19" (currently broken) - 1 17" - 2 Printers: Brother HL-10H (postscript) - 1 Stylewroter II - 1 Stylewroiter 1500 - 2 Deskwriter 550C - 1 " 560C - 1 Beat that, or trade me some thing for a 400k external drive or MAc 128 or MAc 128 motherboard. Geoff COOL!!! Always good to have spare parts!!! _________________ Leutennant SCCHICAGO HotLineServer(closed): scchicago.dynodns.net Website(closed): http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE

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