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A Quadra from 1970... LOL

I don't feel like pulling out my Apple IIe and Coco right now, but my Mac SE was handy, so here's a picture of it. I need to play with it sometime. I noticed the HD made some funny noises this time around. Though it makes odd noises to begin with. I've fooled people into thinking it was a printer by it's sounds!

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I really love this little thing. I've always liked these models. Even if the machine were to die, I'd probably keep it around, at least until I got a replacement or something...
 
I have a few ISA cards, a modem and a soundcard I think. I also had an old slotted PIII CPU (not anymore, it's on my keychain ;)). I'll post some pics later.
 
OK...? I could of told you about anything that was posted there... Did you know the Plus, SE, and Classic were basically all the same machines? Just different cases and a few different options. The Plus didn't offer a HD at all, but had the capability. All the "compact macs" had the 68000 8MHz processor, too, except for the SE/30 and Classic II :P
 
Well you know in those days the cpu and other things were limited only allowing a few other options under different model names. That was the typical sales gimic to make them seem like "something more" was being offered there. I can imagine early Linux lovers were thrilled with those since they supported 4mb of ram. :eek: wow 4mb really? :P
 
I used to play on those at school..... Games like Math Munchers and Oregon Trail...... And the floppy disks were actually floppy too...... I also used to play on the old Macs with games like Kid Pix, which was pretty much a kids version of Photoshop..........
 
I have a few old Isa cards in the attic from an old pc which was taken apart along time ago:D

These are not my actual pics as i dont have a digital camera but there fairly similar.

Isa sound card (This pic is the same as the one i have)

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Isa graphics card

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and old cd drive,Floppy drive and i also had an old processor but there was a pin broken off...dunno where that is.
 
i used to love playing on the old imacs, like the blueberry one.
Games like...where a dinosaur is running around volcaneo lands with a jetpack, and one where a person has like a shark fin on its head and stuff.


Lol.
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
i used to love playing on the old imacs, like the blueberry one.
Games like...where a dinosaur is running around volcaneo lands with a jetpack, and one where a person has like a shark fin on its head and stuff.


Lol.
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hahahah i remember those games. I got punsihment in 3rd grade cause i said that the dinasor game with the jetpack game "sucked"(innaproprate language)
 
I have a big box full of ISA and Vesa Local bus cards and motherboards that support them. I always get a kick when my computer buddies ask me what the big black slot is. I have a Sony 1x CD Drive which has a cartridge that you put the CD in then slide into the drive. About a dozen hard drives varying from 30MB - about 2GB. Then theres a small box with some old EDO and FP RAM and a handful of 386 and 486SX, DX, and DX2 CPU's. Lastly theres some 5.25" floppy drives a bunch of disks to go with them.

As for an actual computer, my oldest is the original Compaq Portable. It used to be my main PC and that thing was a lot of fun.
 
Are you kidding? That stuff is far newer then the pair of real boat anchors still sitting around here that used a 30 or 60minute micro cassette tape as a hard drive. It did have it's own builtin printer for what that was worth however.

 
Thats easy to beat! I don't have any pics of it because its at my dad's house but, I still have an old tandy keyboard that hooked up to the tv like an atari. You had to buy a cassette recorder to use as a hard drive. I can remember thinking it was an accomplishment that I was able to get the damn thing to figure out that 2 + 2 = 4 on its own. Then I forgot to "record" it....

...no really, that seriously pissed me off! That was like 500 lines of code!!!
 
With those old Epsons you had to write your own programs for the most part. The programs available were "limited" to a few basics. I'm trying to remember if there was even one or two prewritten games that long ago.
 
You'll find that Tandy was probably ordering from Apple at the time. It would be no surprise to find that out since Radio Shack generally puts their brand on products made by someone else to stock their shelves with. Tandy probably had an assembly plant at best. One example of this is the Koss headphones sold with RS on them.
 
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