This message written: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 13:51:07 PDT
Scrounging through the bins at a local GoodWill Outlet store, I disovered
a large beige bag. Unzipped it and found a compact Mac, keyboard and
mouse. The bag sported the Apple logo on the tag inside. Grabbed the
bunch and "negotiated" $8 as fair and sprinted for home. Plugged the
serial # into pickle's decoder and got:
Your Mac 128 (M0001), with serial number F40906PM0001,
was the 241st manufactured during the 9th week of 1984
in Fremont, CA.
No power cord so used one of a bunch, plugged it in, got chime and the
thing booted from a floppy left in the drive. Nice bright screen, no
burn-in. Finder on the disk reports in "About the Finder" as version 1.1.
Opened the Control Panel, set the time/date. Unplugged and let sit for an
hour. Plugged it back in and checked the Control Panel again. Looks like
the PRAM battery might be good as the time and date remained correct.
The only flaws I can see are that someone has used a marker to scribble
up the keyboard and one of the little rubber feet is gone. A little
rubbing alcohol for the marks and I have a bunch of Pluses that may be
the source of a new foot.
The disk had a few files that makes me think it had been used as recently
as 1996 by an elementary school age person. By now they most likely own
something a bit faster. Hope it's still a Mac!
I know, not of too much use these days, but MY, the COOL FACTOR!
Just had to make a "report."
Ken
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