The SE
When I got my Macintosh Plus at a computer repair store they had an SE and a Powerbook 170 also. My urge pointed me to the plus. It was only $20! Then I got the Powerbook for only $5! When I came back to the shop yesterday I offered to pay $10 for a broken SE sitting in the corner. He gave it to me for FREE!!!!!!! I would still rather pay for a WORKING computer but you get what you get. Besides, I got it for parts anyways. I got home and plugged it in. It didn't work. The fan spun up but the screen would not turn on and it played no sound. No ka-bong. I tried to take it apart. Sadly I do not have a long torx driver. Off to get one! June 6, 2014
UPDATE: I took apart the SE and the motherboard was not plugged into the PSU.
UPDATE: I took apart the SE and the motherboard was not plugged into the PSU.
Problems with a G3
I had been wanting an Imac G3 for some time. Finally! I found one that worked for only $20! I bought it. Sadly, when I got home it refused to turn on. No fan, No noise. Nothing. Nada. This is bad. I took it apart. Unlike the older macs taking this one apart was like a jigsaw puzzle. I put it back together. It worked! When I took it to my "Mac Cave" and plugged it in it didn't turn on. I don't know what the hell is going on but I don't feel like taking it apart every time I want to use it. This G3 is a no go.
The SE Meets It's Match
I had ordered some floppies from another mac collector, Kevin Rye (his website is appletothecore.me) and they came. I opened them up. I liked to use my SE for using applications due to the fact that since it has a hard drive, I don't need to disk swap. Right in the middle of a session of mac 3D the computer froze. Turned the power off and back on. Half way through a happy mac BOOM! A big old sad mac. Tried again. Another sad mac. Again, more sad macs. Finally, the last time I tried the machine wouldn't even display a sad mac. All it did was played an endless loop of the Ka-Bong sound.
Power Macintosh In My Life
I've been wanting one of these for a while. I have been wanting to write my own 400k 800k Macintosh disks so each time I want some new programs for my mac I don't need to spend $10 plus $3 shipping and have to wait a week for it to arrive. At the end of August I came to the TRW Electronics swap meet. I looked and looked. Nothing too interesting. Then as a came to the back part of the swap meet there was this guy selling a $20 Power Macintosh G3 (beige tower) with a keyboard and mouse. It apparently used to belong to a collage. Got the machine home and powered it on. It booted! Yay! Unfortunately, the hard drive appeared to be dead. Took it apart. Take 2. It Works!
Floppy Drive Blues
Here is how it started. I had purchased an Atari 800XL that didn't want to work so I decided to listen to some music with Music Works. I turn on my Macintosh Plus and insert the system floppy. Then I insert my Music Works disk. Half way through a session of disk swapping I start to hear this horrible grinding sound coming from the Macintosh's disk drive. Now I have a disk stuck in it. Un-insanely Great.