FOX2600 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Im interested in getting a CM, but dont know where to start. Was just looking for any overall recommendations, tips, advice. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Maybe a new one? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Start with http://lowendmac.com If you weren't a Mac user in the 80's, the file conventions might be tricky for you, especially if you don't have the original diskettes. Emulation might be an easier entry point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) personally I would not go any older / lower than a SE/30, it can handle a good chunk of ram, has a 32 bit 68030 cpu and more importantly a 1.44meg floppy disk drive anything older (like my SE) is going to have a base 68000 and 800k disks that you can only read and write with another mac drive and if your not setup for a good chunk of bull er fun they are (to me at least) some of those machines that by the time you get everything going your tired of playing with it heh there is a eralier SE FDHD which is a SE with an updated rom and a 1.44 meg drive, like an SE its limited to 4 meg of ram and its got the OG 68000 clocking in at 8mhz all the SE line has a PDS card slot so getting something like a network adapter (for file transfers) is not impossible as well Edited October 19, 2018 by Osgeld 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 A Mac Classic II would be the high end ...unless you wanted to cheat and get an iMac instead. Heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 ^Do you mean the Color Classic II? The Classic II had inferior specs to the SE/30. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Mystic-rodded Color Classic? *gets shot* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) ^Do you mean the Color Classic II? The Classic II had inferior specs to the SE/30. classic II is similar to the SE/30 except its capped at 10mb ram and no expansion slot, it would be ok if those are not a big deal (the SE/30 is capped to 8 I think unless you use the mode32 extention which makes it take up to 128 meg (unofficial, on the books its 32) , but you get compatibility issues doing so) the expansion slot is nice but unless your running like an external monitor, or network card its not 100% needed they all have a serial port, what I do on my SE is run 2 terminal programs and copy archives or disk images over bbs style (at a whopping 19200 bps) but they also have scsi so things like cd drives and zip disks are another option Edited October 19, 2018 by Osgeld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Go with a Mac Plus upgraded to 4MB of RAM. Use external hard drives rather than floppies. Here is a video of my little friend. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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