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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Rediscovering my old obsession | Posted by: sircabulon on 2025-02-15 12:44:44
About 9 months ago, my wife and I adopted our son. This has been the biggest life change I have experience so far, and I found myself doing an interesting type of nesting. I found myself worried about my son getting online and ruining his brain, so my line of thinking was I'd be better off having his first computing experiences not even have that option. Then I thought about all of the memories I had with my late father on our old Mac Plus's and how the games encouraged me to learn to read. I have a few years yet, but getting ready immediately seemed right at the time. I had forgotten how much I love tinkering with these old things and one repair of a bad ram chip in a Mac SE has turned into much more. I told my friends to keep an eye out for anything beige with an apple on it, and my brother actually re-acquainted me with some of my old computers I thought were lost. I got almost all of my non-beige macs up and running on a shelf. The collecting has been fun, and I have no intentions of stopping, but I did have to reorganize my basement to make room. Most of my non-beige Macs are in my basement now and running, while the compacts and some of the beige ones are at my office on display.
The full collection is as follows:
Mac SE FD/HD - Brainstorm 16 Mhz 68000
Mac IIcx - used to have a Mobius Speedster but that was lost years ago - non functioning now
Mac IIci - Bolle Carrera 68040 sound just went out this weekend
Mac Classic
Mac Color Classic - Max1zzz 32 Mhz 68030 w/ FPU
Mac Quadra 650 - bought for donor parts
PowerBook 160 - parts donor
PowerBook 180
PowerBook 520c
PowerBook G3 Pismo
iMac
eMac
PowerMac G4 Sawtooth
PowerMac G3 Beige Desktop - non functioning
Mac Mini G4 - OS 9 lives
Mac Mini G4 | Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-02-15 12:49:10
Yes, and that's why my kids use all my old Macs and don't have phones or iPads. I actually gave my daughter a refurbished PowerBook 1400 for Christmas to learn typing and play games. | Posted by: Joopmac on 2025-02-16 01:49:25
Same here | Posted by: sircabulon on 2025-03-22 17:18:00
I scored two G4 12 inch Powerbooks today, one 1.5Ghz, one 1.33Ghz that will be used for parts. | Posted by: Retro Rider on 2025-03-24 10:43:20
I've been kinda getting back into classic macs too! I've been meaning to post a conquest post about it like this one, but I've been lazy haha.
But I just wanted to say I see u bro. | | 1 |
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