Hard to believe...

[Engineer1911]

Back at Y2K, I had a comfortable bed and a warm wife, why leave home for the cold sticks? Today the bed and wife are both different. The wife is a real hottie, and menopause / hormones are reeeaallllly miserable. I guess her side of the story is even worse.

 

[labworm]

I have a Macintosh Plus running OS 6 made in 1986 which still runs and keeps perfect time and date. Was able to locate a battery which I replaced a few years back. Power house, 1 MB RAM Price new $2599.00

Just keep it around as a conversation piece.

Mine has a Apple Hard Disk 20SC attached which holds 20 MB of memory.
Sold for $1299.00 when new.

I collect old radios, went over to a genlemen's house to look at a few radios, him and his wife were relocating back to Amsterdam for good. The less they had to ship back the happier they were.

On my way out of his house he showed it to me, I said I didn't want it, he offered it to me for $5.00, I said put it it in my trunk.

Imagine, purchasing these two items back in 1986 would have cost you $3898.00

And of course a picture of the little powerhouse.

 

[Ben_hutcherson]

A working Hard Disk 20 is a prize in and of itself, as many are now dead.

I've actually been running my SE off of mine for a while-waiting until I could get the internal hard drive fixed. It's a lot slower than a true internal hard drive, but definitely workable.

Our department electronics tech at school knows I like old Macs, and the SE just appeared on my desk one day . The HD20 with System 6 installed(along with a bunch of other really great OLD Mac stuff) was rescued from a massive office clean out across the hall from me. The Quadra 700(one of the best 68K processor Macs that Apple made) was rescued from another office clean out. The hard drive I'm getting ready to take out of the Quadra is 160mb, so it will be a big upgrade for the SE. The Quadra is really getting a big upgrade, with a 500mb hard drive. I'm also going to put some 16mb sticks of RAM in it, which will give me 68mb total(4x16+4 built in). Someone gave me a high end video card for it also(Radius Precision Pro XP) so all said and done I'll really have a hot system for 1992 . If I can find one cheap, I may even put a PowerPC card in it.

The early Compact Macs-especially the 128K and 512K-are worth serious money now a days. I've been surprised at how inexpensive the Quadras have remained, considering that they are many times more powerful, more expandable, and the Q700 is not that much bigger.

By the way, here's my SE FDHD running System 6 with the HD20, an external floppy, and an Apple Extended Keyboard II(the best keyboard Apple has ever made-arguably as good as the IBM model M)

And my Quadra 700 running System 7.5.5, next to a Powermacintosh 8500

 

[labworm]

I still have the following, all in working condition.

PowerMac 6500
PowerMac G3 266 mhz

Originaly purchased and owned by me.
PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz
PowerMac GD Mirror Drive Door 1.25 GHz Probably the best looking Mac ever produced.

Now I run a iMac 3.6 GHz, Core i5, 2 TB hard drive.

Might say I like MAC's

Ben, great that you are a young man restoring the old stuff, so others can at least see them sometime in the future.

 

[luangtom]

Yup, it is hard to believe......how easily the masses believe what they hear or read. Y2K saw some of our small-town neighbors hauling in cases of bottled -water, packaged food, generators and the like. My old neighbor commented that they had not seen us hauling in and stock-piling the common items. He inquired what I had purchased in anticipation. Told him, "Ammo only, 'cuz I know who has all the stuff I'll need." He gave me a questioning look and walked away shaking his head. Oops.....

 

[rwsmith]

I expected to see......

I expected to see some problems if not the predicted apocalyptic scenario but I don't believe I came across a single computer related system that 'berserk' or even 'went down' on the first day of Y2K. That stuff about Russian missiles launching by themselves would have been comical had it not been so stupid.

 

[Ben_hutcherson]

I still have the following, all in working condition.

PowerMac 6500
PowerMac G3 266 mhz

Originaly purchased and owned by me.
PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz
PowerMac GD Mirror Drive Door 1.25 GHz Probably the best looking Mac ever produced.

Now I run a iMac 3.6 GHz, Core i5, 2 TB hard drive.

Might say I like MAC's

Ben, great that you are a young man restoring the old stuff, so others can at least see them sometime in the future.

Unlike guns and watches(my other interests) old Macs are cheap-free in many cases-so I've accumulated a lot of them pretty quickly. They are fun to tinker with, though.

Unfortunately, also unlike (hand)guns and watches, computers take up a LOT of space, so I'm limited in how many I can accumulate. I've managed to put together a full range of PowerPC Macs-from the 7100(one of the first PowerPC Macs) up to the last, late 2005 Powermac G5. I also have the last 15" Powerbook G4, and a whole bunch of other Powerbooks. I love Powermac G4s, and have almost every model of those also.

The last generation G5 gets used daily as my work computer(really a pretty nice set-up with dual 23" monitors and enough software to get my work done without extra stuff to distract me), and my best Powerbook gets used a work laptop. My favorite-although not best-Powermac G4(a dual 1ghz Quicksilver) is hooked up to my slide scanner and a bunch of other stuff along those lines, and gets used pretty heavily for that.

I'm also probably going to haul a beige G3 desktop and Personal Laserwriter 300 into work pretty soon-something about writing exams on an "off the grid" computer with obsolete software and the only connections to the outside world being a ZIP drive and a floppy drive really appeals to me.

I'll also add that despite all of the above, my main computer is a 2011 model Macbook Pro running OS X 10.9. I also have a 2009 Macbook running 10.10, and a 2007 Macbook(in black!) running 10.7.

 

[fat tom]

It's amazing how many stupid people are out there.

And MOST of them work for the gubment it seems.
f.t.

 

[fat tom]

He inquired what I had purchased in anticipation. Told him, "Ammo only, 'cuz I know who has all the stuff I'll need." He gave me a questioning look and walked away shaking his head. Oops.....

Kinda how I look at it. I know a lot of those stupid people mentioned above.
f.t.