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_at_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
> | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
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Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 08:40:35 BST