I joined a few weeks ago and have been reading, in anticipation of getting this Mac. My brother-in-law said he'd give it to me - and I took it when he came for Thanksgiving.
I guess it's an original. Model M0001, without the 128K badge on the back. Pretty nice condition with a soft-case, external floppy. But no software. The disks are all bad. I expected worse - like a mouse (mammal-type) eaten case, but was pleasantly surprised to get this thing that actually powers-up I'm a Linux guy - Redhat, SUSE, now Ubuntu. (Before that I was a xxxxxx guy). I have an upgraded NSLUG2 as a workhorse home backup & mp3 server. I even have a 4/586 chip computer with an identity crisis - thinks it's a 1984 IBM running MVS 3.8j and only reads 80-char lines. Anyway, one my boxes could read the diskettes if they were good, but age took it's toll. Is there anyway I can get this thing to run? I really want to show my teen son what computing was in the early home-computing days. I think even tho it's an antique, it's too nice to make into a fish-bowl. Should I look to some local group? -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
