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Craigslist Triple-Play Compact Liberation
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-28 18:55:56 Had a great liberation today- two conquests in one day! I've been watching these two postings on Craigslist for a while, and they hung around... so I finally had the car and a reason to go out of the city and into the burbs (where these were). I contacted the sellers and luckily they could meet me today, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. In between I went to work at a remote site. Conquest 1 - Plus PLUS Cost $25 What I got: 2 x Mac Plus Platinums (1MB, 4MB) 1 20HDSC Floppy/Hardrive 1 External HD (uses DB25-DB25) Keyboards, mice, bunch of localtalk cables and adapters. Both Pluses booted right into their drives. One is pretty dirty but the other is quite clean. Both have nice bright non-ghosted screens. Conqest 2 - Primo Classic Cost $40 What I got: 1 Perfect Classic 1 external SCSI HD 1 Imagewriter 2 Keyboard, mouse, bunch of DD (not HD) floppies (about 30). Cables. This was the original owner, and super clean. Was an older gentleman and cleaning out his house. This was a great haul for me for just $65. I would have paid $40 just for that nice apple keyboard on the Classic. Now I have a nice line up of compact macs: Plus, Se, SE/30, Classic, Color Classic
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-28 19:47:23 I also just got my localtalk bridge in from ebay- i'm to connect these guys via localtalk to my netatalk server.
Posted by: jsarchibald on 2014-08-28 20:10:54 I never find external drives when I come across this sort of stuff, and here you go 3 for 3! That HD20SC is worth what you paid for all of it, so nice work!
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-28 20:47:22 The Classic has just 1MB, which is pretty sad. I'm going to have to dive deep into my junk to find my horde of 30pin SIMMS. Also, the Classic seems to have no internal HD- but it must be dead. There is no way those were sold without a HD was there? I have to crack it open tomorrow.
Posted by: bibilit on 2014-08-28 23:38:22 The Classic has just 1MB, which is pretty sad. I'm going to have to dive deep into my junk to find my horde of 30pin SIMMS. Also, the Classic seems to have no internal HD- but it must be dead. There is no way those were sold without a HD was there? I have to crack it open tomorrow. If i remember clearly, the very basic Classic was sold without HD and with 1Mb of ram only. So probably you have one of those... To get more ram on it, a Memory board was available (with 1Mb onboard and two slots for upgrades) Congrats.
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-29 04:33:37 If i remember clearly, the very basic Classic was sold without HD and with 1Mb of ram only. So probably you have one of those... To get more ram on it, a Memory board was available (with 1Mb onboard and two slots for upgrades) Congrats. Yeah- looked here -- http://lowendmac.com/1990/mac-classic/ I can't believe Apple was selling a Mac in 1990 with 1MB Ram and a 1.4MB Floppy. Seems nuts. AH - I need one of these now:
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-29 04:48:44 Ah ok, I got one from ebay for $23, populated. http://www.ebay.com/itm/191281724942
Posted by: bibilit on 2014-08-29 08:12:03 I can't believe Apple was selling a Mac in 1990 with 1MB Ram and a 1.4MB Floppy. Seems nuts. IIRC the Classic was just a Plus in a better/modern looking case (with a smaller Logic Board) and price should be as low as possible. I don't remember clearly, but the Classic was sold without keyboard and probably mouse. The Classic was part of the Low Cost strategy (including the IIsi and the LC) and the sub $ 1000 price should be achieved that way. Not too far from the Mac Mini strategy.
Posted by: Macdrone on 2014-08-29 08:21:19 OMG should have asked here for 23 dollars you could have got a much better deal. I have like 4.
Posted by: trag on 2014-08-29 13:20:15 There were also some Mac Classic memory expansion boards just manufactured with 3MB soldered down, on the theory that most folks were going to install a couple of 1MB SIMMs anyway, so let's just save on the component count and go directly to the full memory configuration.
Posted by: massiverobot on 2014-08-29 16:58:28 There were also some Mac Classic memory expansion boards just manufactured with 3MB soldered down, on the theory that most folks were going to install a couple of 1MB SIMMs anyway, so let's just save on the component count and go directly to the full memory configuration. I didn't see any of these on ebay, or I would have gotten one.
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