[Duo2400] Oldies but goodies

Carlson mariner at mts.net
Thu Jan 9 13:37:21 PST 2003


I've got a Plus with 4mb ram and one of those little fans on the top of the
case, an Imagewriter II, and Apple branded bags for both. Talk about a
smokin' portable unit! Used to take it to the recording studio to play midi
tracks for sessions. Still works. I think my father-in-law bought them brand
new.

Andy
> Eric L. Strobel on 1/9/03 2:39 PM wrote:
> 
>> I think you've hit on the real key.  I still have my MacPlus on a shelf (I
>> hope to try and see if it boots sometime this year -- it's not been on in
>> about three years)
> 
> I also have an original Macintosh (no number on the first one). Bought it
> for $3 at a thrift store. I was able to download some disk images off the
> internet. I had to fire up an old IIci with an 800k floppy drive so that I
> could write to a 400k floppy.
> 
> It has a perfect screen and the floppy drive sounds sooooo smooth! It just
> purrrrrrrs...
> 
> It boots in 12 seconds running System 0.97! I opened it up and found that it
> had been upgraded to a 512k machine (from it's original 128k). I was
> disappointed when I found this because I really wanted a totally stock
> original. Someday I'll find time to hook up the 900 pound LaserWriter Plus I
> found for it.
> 
> -Mark



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