On 1/7/2014 10:39 AM, Tom Frikker wrote:
Hello,
I just acquired a new mac lot, and had some questions:
1. One of my Mac 128k's (I have 2) has a MacSnap RAM expansion board and
a SCSI card/cable. Are these upgrades rare at all? If I were to sell
this mac, should I sell it as upgraded, or downgrade it and sell them
separately?
If it's all functional and you have the software to use the upgrades,
I'd leave it all together.
2. One of my beige Mac Pluses has a Mac 128k style front bezel instead
of the normal Mac Plus bezel. There is no serial number on the bottom
(the tag is gone), and internally, the machine is a Plus. Would there be
any reason it would look this way (is it upgraded in a weird way or
something)? Or did someone just switch the bezel for an unknown reason?
Apple made upgrade kits for some models that pretty much amounted to
changing the engine in a car by swapping the radiator cap to a different
vehicle. ;)
IIRC there was a Plus upgrade kit for the 128K, 512K and 512Ke which
included the Plus mainboard and a new back shell.
There were also kits to upgrade a IIcx or IIci into a Quadra 700 by
replacing the case and mainboard. Probably was one to go from IIcx to
IIci prior to the release of the Q700.
For the Powerbook Duo line there was a 5300 upgrade which at least
included the mainboard, possibly the lower case half too. The 5300 board
was built to work with any screen used on any model of Duo. If you see a
Duo 5300 with a trackball, especially if it doesn't have the screen the
production model had, it's most likely an upgraded older Duo. Or it
could just be a franken-duo built from whatever bits laying about that
could be plugged together. I used to want to have a 5300 with the case
top swapped from an earlier model just so it'd have the trackball.
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