Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread J. Garrison
On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 06:33 PM, Andrew Nolan wrote: thanks, the mainboard is definitely the 128K type. The serial number on the case indicates the computer was built in 1984 On 01/11/2004, at 1:12 PM, J. Garrison wrote: Wow, indeed. Hold onto that one. It's already a rare find. I've go

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Nolan
thanks, the mainboard is definitely the 128K type. The serial number on the case indicates the computer was built in 1984 On 01/11/2004, at 1:12 PM, J. Garrison wrote: On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 03:46 PM, Andrew Nolan wrote: well I have the back off it now. first thing is that the back of t

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread J. Garrison
On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 03:46 PM, Andrew Nolan wrote: well I have the back off it now. first thing is that the back of the case does not have the usual FCC etc compliance notes label, rather there is a label which is blank except for ruled-up boxes. The SCSI port has been merely added to

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Nolan
well I have the back off it now. first thing is that the back of the case does not have the usual FCC etc compliance notes label, rather there is a label which is blank except for ruled-up boxes. The SCSI port has been merely added to the back of the battery compartment - the battery is there

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Dr.O.M.Betz
>No I wont do anything to it - I guess it already has some card or >suchlike added to it. I'm curious as to whether it has a HD or fan >installed inside because of the sound. I'll need to grab one of my >other old macs ?my classic 2 to make a startup disk for it. Can it run >6.0.2? I think this

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Nolan
No I wont do anything to it - I guess it already has some card or suchlike added to it. I'm curious as to whether it has a HD or fan installed inside because of the sound. I'll need to grab one of my other old macs ?my classic 2 to make a startup disk for it. Can it run 6.0.2? On 01/11/20

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Sean Brown
On October 31, 2004 1:27 pm, Greg Grady wrote: > Hey it's his Mac he can do what he wants to it. I used > one of the cases from my SE/30s to make a PC mod. > You also should be shot, defacing a work of art like that. > Greg > > --- "J. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, October 31,

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Greg Grady
Hey it's his Mac he can do what he wants to it. I used one of the cases from my SE/30s to make a PC mod. Greg --- "J. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 09:11 AM, John > Kamimura wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/04 4:36 AM >>> > > I haven't taken th

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread J. Garrison
On Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 09:11 AM, John Kamimura wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/04 4:36 AM >>> I haven't taken the back off yet. Your bets as to what's inside: Is it possible to wire a SCSI port into a 128 MB? Andrew DUDE! As rare as the 128k IS you should be shot for trying to alter it

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread John Kamimura
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/04 4:36 AM >>> I haven't taken the back off yet. Your bets as to what's inside: Is it possible to wire a SCSI port into a 128 MB? Andrew Reply: Great find! I have a 512K that has a SCSI port where the battery port is located. Its nice to be able to add a SCSI device

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread John Niven
>I haven't taken the back off yet. Your bets as to what's inside: > >Is it possible to wire a SCSI port into a 128 MB? >Andrew Yes I've got one of those in my 128Mb. There is a add on board hardwired to motherboard that gives you the scsi port (out the battery compartment). My 128 was given to m

Re: council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Peter da Silva
Damn, I miss council cleanup. When I was a kid in Sydney I used to pull all kinds of great junk out of there. One year I ended up with about a hundred pounds of working radio tubes from old TVs (which should tell you how long ago this was). -- Compact Macs is sponsored by

council-cleanup find

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Nolan
Hi, in cruising the streets during council cleanup where people throw out their old junk and treasures on the street curb, I came across this gem: an early mac plus-type computer, M0001P, complete with telephone cord - keyboard, square mouse and external apple brand hard drive. Huh? this was at