Would somebody
please take my Mac II?
I saved it from being scrapped at the office because of it's
history, in that it was Apple's big redesign, the first
machine of the new line
-- one that completed with IBM's PS/2 line and argubly was a
greater success. I'm not a big Apple expert but it just
seemed if you were going to have a few Macs that this model
would be in the top 5.
It would be for me, but I've already got one. Is there much interest for
original Macs here? I'm beginning to wonder after nobody replied to me
question about a dead Mac IIfx last week :-/
There are a few of us on this list with interest in original Macs; my
interest is limited only by available storage space. (Want a few Iisi's,
perhaps? A few 20MB Rodime hard drives with external actuators?) What
happened with your Iifx?
If you're really going to scrap the II I could perhaps be persuaded to give
it a home; haven't had my hands on one since I ran one as a file server in
1991-2; somewhere I still have AppleShare and the AppleTalk Internet Router
software I used back then. That was a really hot network (not) - 6 SE's, an
SE30, an original LC, a Iisi, a II as a server, another II as a workstation,
a Shiva Telebridge and an Avatar MacMainFrame SDLC gateway to a remote CICS
host and a LaserWriter IINT. All on PhoneNet, too. Another SE was used to
dial into the Telebridge at 2400BPS thru a Practical Peripherals modem. 90MB
SCSI Bernoulli on the SE30 for backup. We even had a PC in on this party
using a PC AppleTalk card. Ran FileMaker II for a workgroup plus Word 5,
Excel, PageMaker 3, Canvas 2.1 and the Avatar software for mainframe session
access. The Avatar printer emulator ran on a dedicated SE driving an OKI
dot-matrix printer through a serial-to-parallel adapter as I recall. Worked
fine, too. The leased-line modem for the remote mainframe access was easily
as big as a Mac II; as I recall the II sat on top of it. Quite the setup.
Drove our MIS guy nuts that this arrangement of odds and ends set up by an
amateur - all units were out of production by then except maybe the Iisi -
was stable but his Novell setup crashed every few days.
I figure your Mac II and my ImageWriter LQ would make a handsome 'couple'
while completely covering a good sized desk's top. Nothing like old Apple
hardware - I'm still printing on the LaserWriter II I bought new in 1989.
Works fine. Slowly, but fine.
Seth Lewin
