I dug out my classic the other day and was vaguely thinking of trying to turn it into a terminal on my local network with an ethernet to scsi adapter, but it got too complicated for me in about ten minutes. Also, the fan in it sounds like an airplane taking off compared to modern computers. I left it sitting out just as a conversation piece though.

I find that acne medicine like oxy does a great job of fading stains off the plastic after sitting for an hour or two.

“SE SuperDrive”? Is that just the same model as the SE FDHD? I don’t see that in MacTracker.

My first Mac was an SE with two floppy drives and an external 30 MB drive. The original unit is long gone but in about 2000 I got an FDHD off eBay for a dollar. Still have it, although the keyboard is missing some keys and the connection is flaky.

A friend also found a Mac Plus on the side of the road and picked it up for me. It boots, but I don’t have a keyboard with the RJ-looking connector. Looked for one of those on eBay probably about the same time I bought the FDHD and the one guy I found selling them wanted something like $30 for them. Um, no.

ROFL. The SE with 20MB HD and the SuperDrive was my first computer — thanks for the memory, Grant!

This is now my iMac’s background. Nice shot.

:-)

@weevil I haven’t played with any deyellowing techniques yet, but I have been reading up on the Retr0bright project.

@moltz Yeah, the SuperDrive (not to be confused with the optical SuperDrive found in current Macs) is the same as the FDHD (Floppy Disk High Density). Apple changed the naming on later models, to make them sound less nerdlicious, I suppose.

Let me take a peek around the flotsam in the basement … if I have an extra RJ11-savvy keyboard, it’s yours.

@linda I wish I had been cool enough to have an SE or SE/30 as My First Macintosh™ … mine was in fact a IIsi. Great machine, but certainly lacking the ‘classic’ form factor. The first Mac I used was a 128K.

@alternatekev I’m here for you.

@tahoesunsets Thought you might get a kickout of those puppies.

Sweet!

Any novel uses for a toadstool mac?(and I don’t mean turning it into an aquarium). I guess an arduino is probably more powerful than a mac classic, but there ought to be something to do with it other than playing crystal quest.

A toadstool Mac? I’ve never heard that particular nickname before. The ‘classic’ shape is hardly toadstoolish, as far as I’m concerned. At least not in the way the G3 AIO looks like a ‘molar’. Classics make fantastic mail servers, by the way. Run an old version of EIMS, and you’re set.

It certainly wasn’t derogatory. When I worked at Apple we used to call the G3 All in one “Gonk” after the power droids in Star Wars.

I have those two! (my SE has actually ‘FDHD’ written on it) — along with an original 128K (in need of an analogue board replacement), and a Colour Classic. And hopefully a SE/30 is on the way, thanks to a generous donor :)

I love how you framed the photo.

Cheers, Rick