[Duo2400] Re: Oldies but goodies

[Larry Friedman]

Yeah, but we called those Luggables. I think I permanently strained my 
back toting my SE home from school on breaks.

~ Larry


On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 04:37  PM, Carlson wrote:

> 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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