GearTechWolf
Experienced Member
In the easily-accessible parts of my collection I have: An ATARI 600XL (functional last I knew), TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (functional), Commodore C64E (untested), Commodore VIC-20 2-pin power-plug type (worked last I knew), Macintosh 'Pizza-Box' Performa 475 (chimes when turned on, needs recap, battery is removed), Macintosh 'All-in-one' Performa 575 (functional last I knew, battery is removed, needs caps checked), Macintosh Plus 1MB (battery removed, needs recap), Macintosh Classic II (battery removed, needs recapped), the main-board from some kind of WANG Z80-based terminal (no idea where to even start testing it), and an EP-1132 parallel-port EPROM programmer, sitting atop my currently-indisposed slot-7 P2/P3 Win98 tower.
And now, pictures!
The Performa 575 and my currently-gutted Slot-7 tower on the workbench-turned-storage-space in what was once my closet.
The Mac Plus and Classic II, with an external SCSI HDD enclosure between them. (a second hides behind them, one for each system)
The small, personal color TV that my parents used in their bedroom. It's older than I am and is one of my earliest successful repairs.
Still works to this day!
A black-and-white TV that was my personal/bedroom TV until my parents replaced the Emerson with a slightly-larger Magnevox.
The ATARI 600XL that I played many a game of 'Breakout!' on, and was also my first exposure to computer programming in Basic.
I picked up this C64E at a local flea-market or thrift-store for cheap and haven't dug out a power-supply to test it yet, I hope it works.
Aside from replacing one key-cap and stem with one from one of my three dead bread-bin C64s, it's very clean and well-preserved.
My very-yellowed Performa 475, another thrift-shop buy. Tried to test it with an old Apple RF-modulator dongle, but no video output.
I think the dongle may be faulty, or simply incompatible, but I'll have to clean/repair my only Mac monitor to find out.
It does have some case-damage and may have been dropped at least once, but it seems mostly functional as far as I can tell so far.
My COCO 2, yet another flea-market find. Very clean and seemingly fully functional, although the RF output could use tuning/recapping.
A game cartridge, Project Nebula, that I had floating around unidentified in my collection long before I got the COCO 2. Works well!
Ah, and I can only attach ten images per post. Alright, that'll make this post 1-of-3 then. To be continued!
And now, pictures!
The Performa 575 and my currently-gutted Slot-7 tower on the workbench-turned-storage-space in what was once my closet.
The Mac Plus and Classic II, with an external SCSI HDD enclosure between them. (a second hides behind them, one for each system)
The small, personal color TV that my parents used in their bedroom. It's older than I am and is one of my earliest successful repairs.
Still works to this day!
A black-and-white TV that was my personal/bedroom TV until my parents replaced the Emerson with a slightly-larger Magnevox.
The ATARI 600XL that I played many a game of 'Breakout!' on, and was also my first exposure to computer programming in Basic.
I picked up this C64E at a local flea-market or thrift-store for cheap and haven't dug out a power-supply to test it yet, I hope it works.
Aside from replacing one key-cap and stem with one from one of my three dead bread-bin C64s, it's very clean and well-preserved.
My very-yellowed Performa 475, another thrift-shop buy. Tried to test it with an old Apple RF-modulator dongle, but no video output.
I think the dongle may be faulty, or simply incompatible, but I'll have to clean/repair my only Mac monitor to find out.
It does have some case-damage and may have been dropped at least once, but it seems mostly functional as far as I can tell so far.
My COCO 2, yet another flea-market find. Very clean and seemingly fully functional, although the RF output could use tuning/recapping.
A game cartridge, Project Nebula, that I had floating around unidentified in my collection long before I got the COCO 2. Works well!
Ah, and I can only attach ten images per post. Alright, that'll make this post 1-of-3 then. To be continued!