Hi Don, I apologize for the delay in reply. We returned yesterday from a week in Idaho visiting family. While there we say the daily high temp drop from 94 to 64 in the blink of an eye. Upon returning to Seattle we discovered Summer ended here with equal suddenness. Seattle usually enjoys an Indian Summer lasting well into October with temps in the mid 70's to mid 80's. Not so this year, according to weather predictions and our 84 year old neighbor who's usually dead on with weather predictions.
In reading you email I'm left with two observations. 1) you had quite a work career and 2) don't appear to have slowed down much with retirement. I think keeping active in retirement is the key to longevity. I like how you say the hobby keeps your mind and memory sharp. You ARE one still on top of your game. About a month ago I picked up a ton of old Mac's and parts from someone cleaning out his garage. I have two Classic's, logic boards for SE's, a LC630, Performa 560/LC520 with modem card, all parts from a Performa 475 except the case, modem cards, perhaps 10 hard SCSI hard drives, a box of cables, power supplies for Quadra and 6100's, plus about 100 sticks of RAM and VRAM. I don't know how to determine what the RAM speeds are but can probably find info via google. You can have any of the above for the cost of shipping. I like the idea of knowing someone with your vast Mac experience is out there. Once I begin working on my SE30 I'm sure to have questions. Best- Chuck Quoting Don Robert House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Chuck, > > No the electrical box is for our whole house. Two 20 amp circuits > feed six power strips, each with their own circuit breaker. I have > been using a Mac since they first came out. We had them in our > office at Illinois Bell. Eventually the whole Ameritech Corporation > went with Mac. That is until somebody thought they could save money > with IBM clones. So from 1984 to 1996 everything was Mac. > > I won over a million award points in a company idea team program. > Since my team and I had so many points they let us pick items outside > of the program catalog. One team member got a mini-van! Anyway... > we received many things we needed for our family. My main prize in > 1988 was a Mac SE with two floppy drives, keyboard, mouse, > Imagewriter II, and system software. The tab was around $1,800. I > bought an Ehman Engineering two page grayscale display that worked > off a special video card made for the SE. With simple word > processing software (WriteNow) I was able to do many things I was not > able to do before. In addition to the 2 page display I had an Ehman > Engineering 20MB SCSI hard drive. That was 1988. The company found > other jobs for the ladies in the typing pool since we all went to Macs. > > Before retiring from Ameritech in 1996 I started collecting the older > Macs no one wanted anymore. Word got out that I was collecting > Macs. So people would donate their old Mac after replacing it with a > newer model. Some of them are parts units for others. What you do > not see in the photos are large shelving units with more macs on > them. All in various stages of being updated and made to run again. > I also have several Macs and a LISA II at the San Diego Computer > Museum. > > Some Macs are more interesting than others. Especially the Mac > IIfx. It was like no other Mac and cost over $9,000. when new. It > uses special memory 64 pin simms. > I have some other unusual Macs, one (I cannot remember the model > number right now) uses interleaving memory. The Quadra 950s have 16 > simm slots inside. > > I fix up beige G3s and give them to my friends that do not have > computers. It is a hobby. I have been upgrading Macs since 1985. > We progressed from a LISA I and 8 Mac 128s to 12 Mac 512Ke s then to > Mac Pluses to Mac II s to Mac IIsi s and Mac IIci s and also Quadras. > > Here in my home we have a Mac Ethertalk network with a Minolta > ColorPageworks laser printer, an HP Photo printer, a HP 5M monochrome > laser printer, two HP 1600 inkjets, and an Epson 1520 that works off > a Beige G3 Mac server with a firewire port. We also have a Apple > Airport base station that hosts a G3 powerbook (pismo). My working > Mac is a Quicksilver G4. My wife uses the PowerBook a lot. My son > is into film and video and audio and he uses a G5 1.6 GHz for his > requirements. > > Four of the older Macs have ethernet cards and can print and access > the Internet via our cable modem and belkin router. We have 4 > ethernet switches here to handle all the traffic. The four older > macs on the network are the G3 All-in-One, The PowerMac 4400 > (upgraded to a G3 240MHz), the Mac SE/30 and the Color Classic > > I have a Mac LC 575 that I tried to update the color classic with but > it starts to boot and bombs. I have to do more investigating. Some > of the articles mention the Performa 475 and some the LC 575. > Working inside the different Macs and with their different operating > systems is good for my mind and my memory. I find it to be fun. > > I like to help others and make Mac people out of them. Thanks to the > Compact Mac list and the Low End Mac site I keep learning new > things. One important thing I learned last year is to never buy > batteries at Radio Shack they are way overpriced. > > Hope this explains some of my hobby. > > Your new found friend, > > Don > > > On 11 Sep 2005, at 7:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm impressed. I'm VERY impressed. The second picture shows an > electrical box > mounted on the wall. Was that installed to meet the demands of your > fiends? :-) > > I noticed you have a Color Classic. While reading up on the SE30 I > noticed a > link for a mod where someone upgraded a CC with Performa 475 logic > board and > related parts. 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