Just thought fans of old macintoshes might like this.

Driving to work last friday, i noticed out of the corner of my eye somebodys old crap out ready for hard refuse pick up. Amongst that crap i noticed the familiar outline of you guessed it .. some old macs. I thought to myself "Yeah macs, i'm going to go back there after work and pick them up". So after I had finished work i drove back, pulled over and picked them up. Managed to score myself a Macintosh Plus 1Mb + keyboard, a Macintosh Classic + keyboard and an Apple printer (not sure yet what model it is). But alas that was it. No mice, no leads, and no discs.

Took them home, found an old plug that would fit them both and turned them on. And suprise, suprise they both booted up. What does that tell you about macs built to last.

Unfortunately the Mac Plus needs a boot disc and the Classic was missing the ADB cable for the keyboard. So a trip today to applebits has seen me purchase a cable and a mouse to test out the Classic (which funnily enough still has the previous owners files on it!). So when i get home tomorrow i'll fire it up and see how it goes.

Pics soon, when i get my camera back.

Score...

Lucky sod

Nice !

I managed to scab an old mac classic and a performa 580 from my sister's work last month. The Classic had the full 4MB RAM Luckily. It runs so fast when you boot from ROM .
It's verge collection time again where i live, I'm keeping my eyes peeled, hopefully i can net an elusive quadra. I'd like a Plus, I read somewhere on lowendmac.com that you can do a 16MHz upgrade?

The thing to do with a Mac Plus, I feel, is not to actualy try to use it.

Rather one should clean it up, make it look shiney and new, and then stick it in a glass cabinet for all to admire. Optionaly, you can install a well-lit revolving-plinth.

alex

The thing i like most about the mac plus is the extremely chunky keyboard

I booted the classic up yesterday. here are some specs for it:

Macintosh Classic
OS - 7.0.1
RAM - 4096 Kb (4 Mb)
Hard Drive - 30 Mb

I just tossed out an old quadra 605 on the weekend.... still have the apple portraite display tho...B&W

Here is a pic of them

Somewhere up in the bowels of the apple web site you can find a copy of system 6 that will fit on a floppy for the Mac Plus.

It may be somewhere around this link
http://www.info.apple.com/support/ol...twarelist.html

But this is the problem you will need a 400 K disk! - Dont know where you would find one of those .... or if you could re format a 2 mg disk..?

You could try to find an old scusi type 1 HD for the plus and hook it up they run fairly well... (system 7 is the limit system 6 runs fine)

I've never tried it (but it is something I've alwasy wnated to try) you can also start the classic of a copy of the system thats installed in the rom image (it needs a strange key command on start up )

Have fun

(he says looking loveingly at his old Mac Plus in the corner!)

Hi Nevets_Anderson,

you can make an 800K disk (which the Mac Plus takes) by sticking a piece of sticky tape over the left hand hole of a 1.44MB floppy disk.

Of course floppy disks are unreliable pieces of crap that don't last more than three weeks (in my experience!), so I'd do this to install software onto an older machine. A Zip 100 external SCSI drive is also really useful to have for older Macs, as these work from System 6.08 upwards (and are cheap now, I wouldn't expect to pay more than $20 for a drive).

Here is one I prepared earlier

JB

Oh yeah,

back on topic, I found a near-perfect condition Original Macintosh (128K) on the road a couple of months back. It boots with no problems at all, comes with the original boot disk, external floppy, even the original Apple power cable

This is something I'm going to clean, bag up and put in storage (read: under the house).

Quite excited when I found it

JB

Nice find, and nice tip about the floppies

u lucky bastard (mean that in the nicest way possible)

I can remember doing this the other way around....

in the old days you could buy 3.5" DD (double density) and HD (high density disks). We'd buy DD versions (800k) disks... and then heat up a screw driver or soldering iron and pop a hole through the disk (the same one your covering up on a HD disk to make it a DD disk) which basically makes a DD disk become a HD disk. Worked great.

Boy those were the days