Rather not post pictures, don't want any linkage between pics posted elsewhere and my account on Poal which could lead to a dox.
Nevertheless, here's sample of a few of the machines: Tandy 1000TL w/ XT-IDE & 2GB CF, Ethernet card, Gameport card, RAM upgrade to 768k, Parallel port ZIP 100 and parallel port CD-ROM
Tandy 4020SX w/ Soundblaster Pro, IDE/CF Adapter 8GB, 4MB Ram, IDE Zip 100
Tandy 2100 (486SX 25MHZ) w/ IDE/CF Adapter 8GB, 8MB Ram, Soundblaster 16, IDE Zip 100, ATAPI 52x CD-ROM/CD-RW
Packard Bell PB286 (IBM AT clone) w/ IDE/CF Adapter 8GB using XTIDE AT bios, Soundblaster 1.5 with 2x SAA1099 installed (CMS upgrade), Ethernet card, IDE Zip 100, a new old stock PSU installed about a year ago
80486DX4/120MHz w/ 16MB RAM, Soundblaster 16, Bigfoot 8GB HDD, IDE/CF Adapter 8GB, Ethernet card, IDE Zip 100, ATAPI IDE CD-ROM/CD-RW
Pentium Pro 180MHz w/ 64MB RAM, Nvidia TNT2, AWE32 with 32MB RAM installed, IDE ZIP 100, ATAPI IDE CD-ROM/CD-RW
Apple IIe w/ Uthernet card, MicroDrive Turbo CF card, Mockingboard, RAM card, UltraWarp accelerator card, refurbished PSU
Apple IIGS w/ Uthernet card, MicroDrive Turbo CF card, 4MB Ram card, Transwarp GS 16MHz accelerator card, refurbished PSU
Commodore 64 w/ Commodore4ever PS-64 power supply, 1541 disk drive, datasette, SD2IEC, wifi card
Macintosh SE w/ 4 MB ram, external 30MB SCSI HDD, internal 20MB HDD, SCSI2SD 8GB, ethernet card
I'm sure there's lots that I'm forgetting about at the moment..
Have a few of those myself. Sadly sold the original Mac a few years back, still worked. Sat the 6 year old down with MacPaint and he was making cool art in an hour, good stuff in 2. No instructions given. Kids should be able to start off like that again. Not dumped into the hot mess that modern software is.
That's a good program I'd like to mess around with, but rather do it in color.. only Mac I have running right now is the SE which is only black/white. There's a Mac IIcx motherboard on my bench right now that I'm in the process of trying to restore. Capacitors leaked all over the place. Some of the traces look fucked up from the corrosion, but I tested a few of them for continuity and all of the worst looking traces seem to still be intact. Hopefully I got to this thing in time. Reminds me to get off my lazy ass and put in a Digikey order for the replacement caps. Hopefully when I desolder the old caps, the pads don't come up off with them!
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