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progDUDE I totally just trashpicked a working Mac Classic II. It's on the living room monolith making cool hardware-based outer-space noises even as I type. I am yanked back to my days at Andy England's shop and the strange things people would bring in.
THE MAN SAID I CAN UPGRADE TO A POWERMAC WITH A... PENSHUM? AND... DC-ROAM?? HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST
Actually most people were just disappointed when I broke the bad news to them that they couldn't turn a Mac Plus into a Pentium or (in one clever guy's case) turn a monitor into a TV while spending less money than you would on a new TV. All these people were hoping they'd figured out a way to beat the system and weren't especially surprised to find out that it wouldn't work. The only exception was one woman who had picked up an Apple ][ at a yard sale and got really angry with me when shrugged at it. Oh well.
Hm, there was also the guy who got offended when I offered $10 for his complete Lisa system, which he had paid about 1000 times (literally) as much for when it was new. If I were buying it for myself I would have paid more, of course, but from the store's POV it didn't have much resale value. Andy ended up buying it for himself for $100, I think.
THE MAN SAID I CAN UPGRADE TO A POWERMAC WITH A... PENSHUM? AND... DC-ROAM?? HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST
Actually most people were just disappointed when I broke the bad news to them that they couldn't turn a Mac Plus into a Pentium or (in one clever guy's case) turn a monitor into a TV while spending less money than you would on a new TV. All these people were hoping they'd figured out a way to beat the system and weren't especially surprised to find out that it wouldn't work. The only exception was one woman who had picked up an Apple ][ at a yard sale and got really angry with me when shrugged at it. Oh well.
Hm, there was also the guy who got offended when I offered $10 for his complete Lisa system, which he had paid about 1000 times (literally) as much for when it was new. If I were buying it for myself I would have paid more, of course, but from the store's POV it didn't have much resale value. Andy ended up buying it for himself for $100, I think.
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Date: 2006-05-30 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-30 11:26 pm (UTC)I've never seen an actual 'Lisa' system -- just pictures. Didn't they sort of internally re-name it the Macintosh XL or something?
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Date: 2006-05-31 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-31 02:41 pm (UTC)A friend had a Mac I in the mid-80's that we upgraded to a "Monster Mac" by snapping a new processor board and stuff in on top of the old processor. As I recall we didn't actually remove the old processor. The tricky part was violating the Law of Thou Shalt Not Open The Case, which involved welding up a custom long-handled Torx screwdriver to get things undone. The coolest part was seeing the Mac logo with fangs the first time it booted.