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| Click here to select a new forum. | | IIvx Giant Haul | Posted by: MrMacintosh on 2011-03-04 16:18:41
Hey all!
Another conquest I'm pretty excited about. Post on craigslist offering a IIvx with monitor, $10. Went by on my way home from work and picked it up. Spotted a nice Kenmore microwave for $15 (her son was moving or something....) Anyway, offered $20 for the lot, and got it. Here's the haul:
IIvx, looks pretty standard. Keyboard/mouse
14" Macintosh Plus display (or something...)
HP Deskwriter color printer
AppleCD300e, with caddy
Kensington Turbo trackball with floppy
TONS of software. Original manuals for most everything. All the System restore floppies. Kid Pix, Number Munchers floppies and manuals. Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego? in box. MacPlay 3 pack, in box. Several CDs, more floppies. I'm about to go check everything out - on the dining room table, no less!
Pics to follow.
| Posted by: FlyingToaster on 2011-03-04 16:47:19
Nice new collection for practically nothing
| Posted by: MrMacintosh on 2011-03-05 11:21:29
So, it has 8MB of RAM, and a whole bunch of software - DiskDoubler, Norton Utilities (ew), NowMenu, and a bunch of other stuff that makes funny noises and things look different. And After Dark =D
The printer is broken, and out of ink. I just wish it had been a StyleWriter, maybe the Color StyleWriter Pro, for example. Still cool though!
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2011-03-06 13:45:18
Nice haul. For what its worth, I wouldn't be so quick to say "eww" about Norton Utilities...while there hasn't been a good product with the "Norton" name for a good 10+ years, I used to use Norton Utilities for Macintosh back in the day (I still do use it on my 68ks), and I can honestly say that back in the day it saved my ass more times than I care to count.
| Posted by: trag on 2011-03-14 09:19:36
Apple 14" Color Plus display, probably. A decent shadow mask (not trinitron) CRT.
The worst thing about the Color Plus is its tendency to blow its internal fuse. At this age, your is probably either immune, or has long since had its fuse replaced with a slow-blow fuse which doesn't succumb so easily to the problem in those displays.
I got about ten years of good service out of mine before it developed some kind of brightness bloom. I had to replace the internal fuse within a couple of years of original purchase. Ten years is pretty good for an old "economy" CRT monitor.
| Posted by: Solvalou on 2011-03-14 10:41:02
Congrats, I just bought a IIvx on the feeBay a couple of days ago, I can tell you that I paid ALOT more then you did you lucky whatsit. 😛
Any pictures?
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