Dan FitzGeraldDec 3, 2022

Last night, I got an amazing suprise! I was working at a Hackerspace when somebody gave me this little guy out of the blue. It's a Mac 128K, produced around June, 1984, with the Mac Plus 1MB conversion kit!

It needs a little love, but it's the appropriate next difficulty level for me -- case needs to be cleaned and retrobrighted (which I dont know how to do yet), there is some light surface rust and corrosion on the frame, some rust and corrosion on the board, and it needs to be recapped. It even still has the original electrolytics in its' video circuitry (and boy are they _shot_). The case yellowing indicates that this was used with a Kensington System Saver, and that may be coming to me as well!

I got all of this simply because I mentioned that I needed a new flyback transformer for my 512Ke and this was going to become a fish tank. However, now I need a flyback for my 512Ke _and now_ a cap kit for this little guy 🥰

Show threadkolliDec 3, 2022
@d_j_fitzgerald nice! Free gifts are always welcome and an enjoyable surprise. You don't get them very often. My best free items were a EACA Video Genie computer from 1981 and a (Intel) Mac Mini from 2006 so far.
Show threadDan FitzGeraldDec 3, 2022
@kolli when I announced at work that I was going to my first Vintage Computer Fest East, a random hardware logic designer messaged me on Slack and gave me her mint condition original Macintosh that she had lovingly saved in the original box and packing materials. Every styrofoam insert, every cardboard sleeve, every manual, every audio casette.
Show threadDan FitzGeraldDec 3, 2022
@kolli she gave me everything but her original sales receipt, which she held on to for sentimental reasons. She gave me a color copy of it though.
Show threadDan FitzGerald
@kolli _that_ was the best free Macintosh. Even if you cant actually _do_ anything with it (the original Mac was a groundbreaking but useless machine... 4 applications and 128K of RAM? Thanks, Steve...)
Dec 3, 2022 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadCharlieGDec 3, 2022
@kolli @d_j_fitzgerald You can do some work on it. My grandfather wrote a book on his. You need disk-based MacWrite or WriteNow or Word though, and a second drive.
Show threadDan FitzGeraldDec 3, 2022
@CharlesMGascoigne @kolli those I have. The original owner wrote her Master's thesis on it