“TechRepublic acquired an Apple Macintosh Classic for sole purpose of cracking it open to see what secrets it held inside. “Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic” is available now under the TechRepublic Photo Gallery tab,” Mark Kaelin blogs for TechRepublic.
“Consistent with Apple Computer Company’s reputation for design innovation and engineering skill, the Mac Classic is a study in efficiency, both in terms of space and power utilization,” Kaelin reports. “With a 9-inch CRT display built right in the case, you have to cram some powerful and dangerous amounts of power into a very compact space without interfering with the flow of data through the silicon components of the computer. The Mac Classic handles this balancing act with aplomb.”
Full article here.
Oh my goodness, such great memories. Great computer.
I actually WANTED to type school reports because we used to have a Classic back in the day.
And on a side note…Apple should bring back the smiley face when you first boot up your computer. I always liked that.
Now it’s just an apple. No personality.
Jobs…get on that pal.
Yes, and both of mine still work using system 6.0.8 on my ethernet network [Asante adapter, of course] along with Quadras and iMacs running OS 10.5.3.
Apple knows how to build them!
I still have my SE/30 – and it has been opened up many times for upgrades, cleanings, fixes, etc. It got me through 4 years of college without a hiccup!
Mom wanted to throw it out… Of course I had to explain that that could never happen…
Still have my Apple IIc. First truly portable computer. It even came with the option of a color monitor, circa 1982.
@ LOL
Asanté adapter? I’m a rabid PC/Windows enthusiast so could only be guessing here, but the Classic doesn’t have any internal expandability i.e. a NuBus adapter. Your Asanté must be a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge, right? Macs suck, Windows RULES!
Your potential. Our passion.™
And here I am, sitting in front of my new 20″ iMac that costs less than *half* what that Classic cost! In depreciated dollars, no less!
That is MACs suck, Windows RULES! I apologize for the slip up.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Let the geezer fest begin!
For me, I wasn’t lucky enough at the time to be in a position to buy (or even see in ‘person’) a real Mac Classic. The closest thing that got me to a Mac was Atari 1040 ST computer, for which someone had written a Mac emulator. Back then, it was rather easy to acquire Atari and Amiga software that had ‘fallen off the back of a truck’ (this was Yugoslavia in the 80’s), so I had that emulator on my Atari, and got to see what Mac OS looked like. There was also a copy of RSG (Ready, Set, Go) DTP application for it (anyone here remembers that one). It wasn’t until 12 years later that I was going to get my first Mac (PowerMac 8100, System 7.1)…
Zuney…
only a true and SERIOUS Machead™ would know about NuBus!
Now that you’ve exposed yourself, please put it away.
Oh, the horrah!
(read in your best Long Island accent)
By the Zune Tang®, I don’t believe PC supported networking without adding a card. And, stardard cards didn’t exist at the time as I remember.
@ M@c- Yeah bring back the Happy Mac Face! I wish I could hack the firmware to do that like some people did with the G4/G5s.
@Big Mac Attack the IIc came out in 1984, I purchased 1 of the first and had to settle for an Apple III monitor because the IIc Monitor was not available till a few months after the computer. It went head to head with the PC Jr. and kicked its ass.
Thank you for playing, Zune. But honestly, that wasn’t your best work.
Anyone want my Powerbook 140 running System 7.1?
I agree with Zune Tang.
He’s my hero!
@ M@c and Chris,
lol – I actually disagree. I disagree so much that when OS 10.0 was released and I saw that it still had the smiley face, I wrote to Apple with their feedback area, and told them that they should remove the smiley face… and actually they did. Pretty sure it wasn’t just from my little email, but I hate that thing. IMO, it looks very dated, and very amateurish, and childlike. I would LOVE it if they would create a NEW FINDER logo to get rid of that smiley face once and for all!
I second the motion that should bring back the Smiley Face when you boot a Mac.
Predrag… who you callin’ a geezer?
Those were great machines. Pretty near bomb-proof.
My first Mac was a 512K with dual 400K floppy drives and an ImageWriter printer. I had the Mac mounted on an Ergotron swivel base with a bracket carrying the external floppy drive. That shit was slick! It cost almost 4 grand for that rig! How things have changed.
Very nice job of taking the computer apart. When this computer came out, I was still in college – that is, broke – and could not possibly have purchased this machine back then.
Okay SOMEONE has to ask, “Does it blend?“
Peace.
@Zune Tang,
You’ve finally exposed yourself and also why you hang out on the Mac forums. PC enthusiast, my rear! You know you are a Mac dude! I bet you own an iPhone.
I wish I’d have been lucky enough to live back in that era. Still, at least I have the opportunity to use a mac now. I do still remember, though, when I was younger and used windows 98. I swore up and down that I’d use that computer till longhorn cane out. My dad got me and my sister macs (me an iMac and her a powerbook g4) as en experiment (he had personally never user one) and boy how things have changed. Now I use a mac pro, am currently typing this on my iPhone, waited in line at the apple store summit for leopard and this iPhone, plan on doing so for iPhone 3g. My sister now uses a MacBook pro and my dad uses a MacBook, a mac mini, and an iMac. He also plans on waiting in line for an iPhone 3g.
Been there, done that.
Sold my SE/30 in 91 and bought a IICi, it’s in the basement. My wife always ask’s me when I’m going to throw it away. She should know better after 18 years of marriage, he he
classics are nothing. If you really want to see something, crack open a Mac (128K) or a (Fat) Mac (512K). Those had the signatures of the people that designed the Mac, including Steve.
Steve used to say, artists have to sign their work. So, the signature was encompassed into the Mac. Work of art.
Mine is in the basement, in the carry bag.