Anywho, I have liberated many a 68K from certain death. My first liberation was at a garage sale about six years ago, where I found a Mac 512K w/ an ImageWriter I printer for $5! I later gave this to a friend of mine, who still has it. i kinda wish i wouldda kept it now....

My next liberation was at an auciton two years ago, where I got 5 macs for $25. i got 3 LC IIIs, an LCII, and a Mac IIx with a IIfx mobo. I gave an LCIII to my 5 year old cousin, and another one became the guts of the Macintosh LCIIIgs of Applefritter fame, and the last LCIII received a dark metallic blue paint job. The LCII is a backup Mac, she doesnt see much use currently. The IIx [IIfx mobo] is dead, it will not boot, and i have tried everything to bring the beast back to life, but it's too far gone, i'm afraid.

About the same time that I got the Macs from the auction, I traded my old 486SX/25 [8/210MB] peecee with another friend of mine in exchange for a nicely equipped Performa 550 [5/230MB]. I upped the RAM to 36 megs and dropped in a 500 MB hard drive, and now this Mac is my little sister's computer now, and she uses it for games and whatnot.

Last year I [sorta] liberated a Quadra 700 off ebay for $7. This Mac is currently my brother's main 68K Mac.

The latest Mac I liberated was a PowerBook Duo 280, [12/250 MB i think]. I obtained the old Duo while looking for other Mac people in my dorm at college. On the second day of being there I found this kid with this Duo, and he said I could keep it! Score! The only problem is that I don't have an AC adapter for it, so I can't use it right now. But he said that he has a Duo Dock laying around at home, and he is going to try to bring it back to campus with him after christmas break, if he drives back instead of flying.

Those are the stories of my 68K Mac liberation, and it's great to be in the army!

Interested in sale or trade?

~Marchie

~Chaplain Marchie
68k Macintosh Liberation Army

Perhaps this belongs in the LC forum, but we'll see.

I had never heard of the "LCIIIgs" until you posted that link. I didn't know that people liked case transplants so much, but I've got meself a plan. This is no hackintosh - there's no practical purpose to this hack. It isn't a hack, at all, really, and let me say I take a bit of issue with the classification of the LCIIIgs as a hack.
Very cool, but not so much of a hack.

In any case, here is my project: run a working LCIII out of an NES casing. Why not? It's never been done. I've got a bunch of NES's around. I was going to sell all of them, but I'll take a small loss this time around. It will be silly, it will be interesting, it will be a tight squeeze, and it will have a floppy drive right where the games would go in. It's too bad that I can't move the adb port, or something, because it would be really cool to plug the keyboard right into the spot where the NES controller plugs in. Maybe that will be the hack. I could find a way involving a small extension cable, I'm sure.

Wish me luck, all! Full color photos to follow.
Should this have been its own post? Whatever.

*hangs head in shame*

It's easy to transplant ADB, you can buy the connectors from any good electronics store and some 4-core cable as well. Instant S-Video/ADB!

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