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| Just picked up a 128k | |
| Posted by: blusnowkitty on 2020-03-16 18:00:42 You never know what you’ll find when you’re browsing mislabeled items on eBay... Got a pretty good deal on this 128k! The only thing keeping it from booting was a single bad RAM chip which I removed and socketed. Now I’ve got it coming up to the missing disk screen! Unfortunately, the internal 400k drive is dead - the eject motor is burned out. I’ll probably be replacing it with a Floppy Emu at some point, but for now... I’m just happy to have a bucket list system.  | |
| Posted by: Mr SN on 2020-03-16 18:12:59 Nice score! | |
| Posted by: Juror22 on 2020-03-20 17:53:29 It sounds like it got to the right person, since you already fixed the main problem and have plans for the rest. | |
| Posted by: blusnowkitty on 2020-03-20 18:44:58 Update! Turns out the eject motor wasn't burned out. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but I found the missing parts (a C clamp and some washers) and suddenly the drive sprang back into life, motor and all. | |
| Posted by: krishnadraws on 2020-03-20 19:18:14 Woohoo!! Congrats! 🙂 | |
| Posted by: AlpineRaven on 2020-03-20 19:24:18 How exciting! I did the same thing - it was plain front, I knew the sticker on the back and it only had "Macintosh" badge and I knew it was 128k - I didnt say anything and bought it, brought it home, fired it up - it needed RIFA chip and came up with RAM error - replaced all RAM chips to new ones, and fired her up - works well, even that original "tall boy" 400k floppy drive. Good score! Cheers AP | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2020-03-21 13:31:00 Great find. Now you need to source the original keyboard and numpad - I managed to find a set on eBay and bought them, cost me a little bit more than I wanted but it was worth it to get a more complete set 🙂 | |
| Posted by: mactjaap on 2020-03-21 14:23:55 I’ve got one to! A catch you will always remember. It cost me $25. congrats!!! | |
| Posted by: tappdarden on 2020-03-21 22:40:21 Nice find! everytime i pick up a '128k' it turns out its upgraded to a 512k or something. | |
Posted by: blusnowkitty on 2020-03-21 23:29:09Nice find!I did find a cheap 512k... Analog board is dead, but I might do a board swap but'll keep the 128 board. | |
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