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The collection so far
Posted by: VintageRecapEurope on 2015-06-09 11:06:04
Hello from sunny Ireland.......that's right the sun is actually out today

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With the need to remove all the drives from my machines I decided to take down most of my machines.

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With the sun out just had to get a few snaps

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Posted by: MinerAl on 2015-06-09 11:09:05
Wow!
Posted by: galgot on 2015-06-09 11:10:26
Wow ...! Nice collection. What is that leather bag for ?

And why remove all the drives ? 🙂

Posted by: VintageRecapEurope on 2015-06-09 11:14:59
The brown leather bag is for an apple II... there an apple Iie inside it. Its old as the apple logo on it does not have the 'bite' out of the apple from it.

I think they  only a few made for reps when the apple ii first came out. I saw a video on utube with woz in it talking about it.

Saw it on ebay and snapped it up

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removing the drives to keep them in a more stable climate. Keeping them in an attic (which is where they usually live) is not good - temperature swings etc).

Thankfully I have been checking them all day 1 by 1 and no failures yet.

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Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-06-09 11:18:10
most models i have, but as always i envy your TAM.  great collection.
Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2015-06-09 11:23:19
Good gracious, that's a lot of compact Macs!
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-06-09 19:00:06
Now you can network them together and run them as a super parallel computer and be one of my digital minions to take over the world!!!!

(See bottom of...)

http://daugerresearch.com/LDM/index.shtml
Posted by: Garrett on 2015-06-09 20:30:41
Wow, that's a lot of compact Macs!

Where in Ireland do you live?
Posted by: Juliet Elysa on 2015-06-10 02:17:19
I like the way you're thinking, Elfen. 😉 :lol:

That IS an impressive collection, and lovely pictures to match! 🙂 And I'm also curious about why you need to remove the drives?
Posted by: Hotdog Zanzibar on 2015-06-10 06:42:44
I'm also curious about why you need to remove the drives?
removing the drives to keep them in a more stable climate. Keeping them in an attic (which is where they usually live) is not good - temperature swings etc).
🙂

Posted by: VintageRecapEurope on 2015-06-10 15:51:21
After going through all the macs I found 3 drives that wouldn't boot. And they did when I stored them.

2 gave constant restarts.........1 has come back to life

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these drives were never opened and wont open them for a while. No clicking.

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hoping its just bearings on the platter

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took all the rest out and stored them facing the same way up as in the mac.

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see what happens!

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from the failures I have seen with liquefying seals and the overall age of the drives  I don't think there is any method to keep these devices working for decades!
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