Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends
Macintosh SE visits the Genius Bar
Kroll, of Kroll's Blog, snapped this picture while he was in his local Apple Store. It seems that this gentleman has been doing all his banking on his trusty SE for over a decade, but he thought it might be time for an upgrade. I wonder if he got himself a Quadra.
This begs the question, what is the oldest functioning Mac that you own? The oldest Mac that I have is a Cube, which is chillin' in my closet.
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JoeBob said 7:04AM on 11-18-2005
I have an old SE with dual floppys that is still kicking.
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Jamie said 7:23AM on 11-18-2005
I have a PowerBook 520 that was upgraded with a PowerPC chip--I still haul it out occasionally to use an old version of PageMaker.
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ignatz said 9:07AM on 11-18-2005
My father has my old Performa 6220CD. Still does all his locally and backs up all his files on a 3.5 Floppy disk
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neuromancer said 7:25AM on 11-18-2005
Macintosh Plus, still working.
And my newest mac is older than you oldest (the Cube), i use day-by-day a Sawtooth built in 1999... six years ago.
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Christian said 7:27AM on 11-18-2005
I still have a Mac 128K with System 1.0. I don't really use it for anything, but it runs :-)
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Urban Legend said 7:38AM on 11-18-2005
I've got a Powerbook 5300cs I use to store images from my digital camera on the road, and to play old games.
I have 2 mac portables in storage too, i think....
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Dave said 7:42AM on 11-18-2005
Still got an ol' ||c. It once made a loud pop and poured smoke. After being left alone for a few hours I plugged it back in and it STILL worked. They just don't make em like they used to.
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Ben Poole said 7:44AM on 11-18-2005
Rev B Bondi Blue iMac, circa 1998. Still up and running 24-7 (Panther).
Up until a couple of years ago I also still had my trusty Mac Classic. 4 meg of RAM and a 40 meg hard drive running System 7.1 Great little machine, it served me very well for a very long time (seven years!)
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Anunnaki said 11:10AM on 11-18-2005
- Lisa 2
- PowerBook 100
- Portable Rev.a with Backlight upgrade
or so ;)
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markie said 7:55AM on 11-18-2005
Classic II, 10MB memory and a 500MB(!!) SCSI harddrive... I still use it as a serial console to some of my machines and I have an Asante EN/SC scsi-ethernet device so I can even surf the intarweb with it! on NCSA Mosaic!
http://geektechnique.org/projects/fastclassic.html
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Oddysseey said 8:08AM on 11-18-2005
Macintosh Classic is my oldest mac... i had a Macintosh Plus too, but I , I know, it sounds silly, lost it somehow... Don't know, where I put it...
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Joel said 9:05AM on 11-18-2005
I have a ton of old stuff. I have probably 3 'Plus'es, an SE 30, at least one functioning 'Classic' (I'd love to get a 'Color Classic'), a couple 'LC's (including an LC II), and I've also got a functioning Apple II Plus with a functioning graphics tablet (including software)
I'm a bit of a collector.
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Sk8rCai said 8:10AM on 11-18-2005
My trusty Mac Plus is still going.....
Although he's more than a little yellow around the edges!
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AxsDeny said 8:15AM on 11-18-2005
My oldest Mac that still runs is the Mac 128k. My oldest Apple that still runs is the Apple ][c (with original carrying bag!) I got it at a garage sale (with printer!) for $15. Woohoo!
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Ronald Leroux said 8:21AM on 11-18-2005
I still have my Apple IIe transformed into an Apple IIgs. Also, my PowerMac 6100/60av. :)
Both in working order, of course.
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Mark said 8:45AM on 11-18-2005
My 68k collection: Apple Lisa with Macintosh expansion, IIci, Powerbook 180, Quadra 700 and Quadra 950. The Quadra 700 is my favourite. They're all running and the Quadra's were even online.
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fondomatic said 12:35PM on 11-19-2005
I've got a working:
PowerBook 540c
SE
SE30
Macintosh Plus
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Kaysha said 3:34AM on 11-21-2005
Mine is a powerbook G3 chilling in his bag and replaced by a shiny brand nu powerbook G4 1.67
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David said 9:18AM on 11-18-2005
Last time I tried my old Mac 2 it was still kickin'
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Ken Carpenter said 9:18AM on 11-18-2005
Somewhere in my parents' basement is an original 128k Mac, purchased pre-retail through the University of Michigan. The original external floppy drive and the original dot-matrix printer are there, too, and they all still worked the last time I dug them out. That little machine got me through college (at Cleveland State, not Michigan), but I'm willing to give it up to a good home!! I still have the original MacWrite and MacDraw floppies, too. Others in the working collection are a IIsi, a Performa 575 and a Performa 6400. Any takers?
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