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