Hello!
Just yesterday, I picked up two compact macs, a Mac II, and a first generation iPod. However, both compact macs have interesting upgrades. Both work (after a quick reflow of the analog board) and are pretty clean inside. They also have fan mods!
The Mac Plus has a 68000 16Mhz upgrade by Brainstorm, and possibly a RAM upgrade. I am not sure how much RAM it has before since I don't have a keyboard, mouse, and boot disk yet to check. I also notice the Mac Plus makes a clicking noise constantly after the macintosh bootup screen shows, not sure why this is. Is it bad? Also, how do I fix a slightly fuzzy screen?
The Mac 512k has a SCSI expansion, and a 2MB RAM daughterboard, both by "Prespect Systems Inc".
On a side note, the Mac II has a Dove Marathon 030 expansion and 5MB of RAM, but is missing both floppy drives and the bay. If anyone has the floppy drives + bay, I'd be interested.
So, I was wondering what sort of value they carry and what use they have. Do they need recapping? Anything I should watch out for (yes, I know about CRTs)?
Also, is there a good way to retrobrite the Mac II case?
Thank you so much!
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The Mac Plus motherboard is pretty normal other than the CPU slotted on top an a resistor(?) connecting the CPU board and some component on the motherboard.
The Macintosh 512k has loads of wires and such everywhere:
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Just yesterday, I picked up two compact macs, a Mac II, and a first generation iPod. However, both compact macs have interesting upgrades. Both work (after a quick reflow of the analog board) and are pretty clean inside. They also have fan mods!
The Mac Plus has a 68000 16Mhz upgrade by Brainstorm, and possibly a RAM upgrade. I am not sure how much RAM it has before since I don't have a keyboard, mouse, and boot disk yet to check. I also notice the Mac Plus makes a clicking noise constantly after the macintosh bootup screen shows, not sure why this is. Is it bad? Also, how do I fix a slightly fuzzy screen?
The Mac 512k has a SCSI expansion, and a 2MB RAM daughterboard, both by "Prespect Systems Inc".
On a side note, the Mac II has a Dove Marathon 030 expansion and 5MB of RAM, but is missing both floppy drives and the bay. If anyone has the floppy drives + bay, I'd be interested.
So, I was wondering what sort of value they carry and what use they have. Do they need recapping? Anything I should watch out for (yes, I know about CRTs)?
Also, is there a good way to retrobrite the Mac II case?
Thank you so much!
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The Mac Plus motherboard is pretty normal other than the CPU slotted on top an a resistor(?) connecting the CPU board and some component on the motherboard.
The Macintosh 512k has loads of wires and such everywhere:
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