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Found my old Mac in my parents' storage!
Posted by: Neophyte on 2020-01-21 21:04:06 Fired right up, too, and still has everything on the hard drive. All I really had to do was clean it. Now I've got to decide how I'm gonna connect it to a modern network so I can use it as a LocalTalk server for the IIgs.
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2020-01-21 22:16:00 Howdy! That's a nice little package. A time capsule.
Posted by: Mighty Jabba on 2020-01-22 01:26:11 Interesting that it's a Plus but has the keyboard from the original Mac.
Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2020-01-22 05:39:56 Awesome find! I have spent some time in my parents basement looking for my Performa 450, but no luck! My mother has no recollection what she did with it sadly. Amazing how old macs just work most of the time, and at decent speeds too. Most PC's are good and dead after 10 years.
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-01-22 06:13:11 That’s a beautiful setup! I was delighted to pull my old 8100 out of the family basement a few years ago, the caps had gone all fish-oil but the SCSI hard drive worked (and still works) great so I was able to dig all my old files out of there. Now if only I could find up my box o’ floppies from 1989 ....
Posted by: EvieSigma on 2020-01-22 06:24:42 Awesome find! I have spent some time in my parents basement looking for my Performa 450, but no luck! My mother has no recollection what she did with it sadly. Amazing how old macs just work most of the time, and at decent speeds too. Most PC's are good and dead after 10 years. Oddly enough, in my experience, the most reliable PCs are within 20 to 25 years old...I've only twice had a Pentium era box that just wouldn't work no matter what I tried.
Posted by: JT737 on 2020-01-22 08:20:23 That's nice looking Mac Plus setup! I grew up with an original Macintosh 128k that we had upgraded to a whopping 512k. My parents used to work at a local computer store and bought it about 1986 or so for a steep discount: $1000, and that included an image writer I printer. Alas, it got sold several years back, but I still have some pictures of it:
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