14 Jul
1998
14 Jul
'98
1:40 a.m.
Actually, there is a little known difference on the power supply board
between a beige Mac plus and a Platinum Mac Plus. Just a diode but boy
oh boy did it cause havoc when installing a certain CPU accelerator
board made by now defunct MacMemory.
Mommy! I let the magic smoke out!
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy [mailto:healyzh@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 9:08 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: How many computers?
Every so often, someone asks how many computers I
have, and
I always find
it hard to give a straight answer. It depends
whether you
count half a
dozen 68000 boards as 1 + spares, or 6 -- I only
have two
keyboards and one
PSU rigged up for them -- or none, since I
haven't got the
orignal case or
PSU. Or the PDP-11s; I have several spare CPUs
and other
boards, but only
a few cabinets.
Well, just tell 'em what I do. I've got about 70 computers
(See the web
page if you want the list, I'm not typing them all in :^) ),
not counting
duplicates/spares. However, I do count such things as a
"Beige Mac Plus"
and a "Platinum Mac Plus" separatly, despite the fact the only real
difference is the colour of the case (well, in this case the keyboards
also). Still I think the only systems that fall into that
catagory are the
Mac Plus, TI-99/4a, and A1200(HD).
Here is a question, how do you include terminals? For
example I've got a
Tandy WP-2, it's a combo Word Processor, terminal sort of
thing, basically
a keyboard with a LCD strip. Would it be a computer, or a terminal.
Zane
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