Who's got the most Macs?

[MassimoMac]

i only have 2 but about 6 or 7 seven years ago my dad had 11 macs in the house

 

[ADKhikerVW]

I beg you to post some pictures of this!

I posted a thread with it a while ago, but couldn't find it right away, so here is Buddha in his computer.

 

[GravityDrmmr]

yes I'm crazy

Mac SE
Power Computing clone 120MHz
iMac Blueberry 350MHz
iMac DV 400MHz
G3 Blue and White w/G4 500MHz accl. card
iBook 12" white G3/500MHz
PowerMac Dual 1GHz MDD
PowerMac 1GHz G4 MDD (FW800)
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn)

...all but the iMac Blueberry are still in use...

 

[akabigtuna]

Awww... I would make one of those for my dog, but it would take 1o to make her fit...

 

[IanCT]

iMac 20" 2.16 GHz C2D
PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz
G4 Cube 500 MHz
iMac 17" G4 1.25 GHz
iBook G3 500MHz
iMac DV G3 500 MHz
iMac G3 350 MHz

Non-Apple
HP Pavilion AMD64 3 GHz
Toshiba Satellite AMD64 2.2 GHz
Asus EeePC

 

[jazzsax]

Wallstreet
iBook G4
iBook G3
iMac G3
G4 400
Cube 450
MacBook
MacBook Pro

 

[nbrowser]

eMac 1.25Ghz (USB2.0)
Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo Combo Drive upgraded nicely

 

[pixeldamage]

Household has my brother's Mac Pro rig, my 15' MBP and a white Macbook. I think there's a G4 tower laying around somewhere out of commission. Definitely not in the running for the most but I do have a ton of Apple Products!

 

[funkdabeat]

I have...

1 iMac 2.16GHz 2006 20" (Kitchen tv)
1 iMac 2.4GHz 2008 20" (old computer used for Movies)
1 iMac 2.66GHz i5 09 27" (Used for my photography)
1 Macbook Pro Core Duo 2.16GHz 2006 15" (Hardly Works)
1 Macbook pro Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz 2006 17" (using it now )
1 Macbook 13" 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo 2008 (Runs amazingly well)
1 Mac Pro 2.66GHz 2TB (raid into 1TB, For movie editing and encoding)
1 Mac Mini 2.26GHz 500gb 7200Rpm 4Gb ram (better than an apple TV and plays 1080p)

Bought the core duo when it came out for UNI then the 06 iMac for home use, then upgraded the Macbook pro for the late 06 2 months after it came out for UNI, then i got the 08 iMac to replace my old iMac and the 08 macbook is for home portability, then got the Mac Pro when it was released for movies at Home, and then got the Mac Mini and iMac at the same time when i got my home theatre and took up Photography as a hobby. Does seem like a lot of macs but they are all in good use apart from the core duo MBP which barley turns on

 

[pigoo3]

I didn't even know this thread existed.

But as far as "How many Mac's do I have...look this way:

 

[Jamie-Jamie]

I think Pigoo beats me, but...

Mac Pro (Early 2009 4-core 2.93GHz)
Power Macintosh G4 (Sawtooth) 450
iMac G3 500 (Summer 2001 CDRW)
Powerbook 3400/180
Power Macintosh 6500/250
Power Macintosh 7200/120 with DOS Compatibility Card
Quadra 840av
SE/30 (dead )
Macintosh 512 (with Dove SCSI card and 1MB RAM upgrade)
2 dead iBooks, one iceBook and one Blueberry clamshell

 

[pigoo3]

SE/30 (dead )

Too bad about the dead SE/30. I used to have one back in the late 1980's...but of course at the time had to sell it to finance the next "better" Macintosh computer purchase.

I wouldn't mind getting a working one again...but they still sell for a pretty good price...compared to Mac's of similar vintage. Such as an Mac Plus, SE, Classic, etc.

Maybe I'll get lucky...

- Nick

 

[Jamie-Jamie]

I've thought of getting a Classic II, since they seem to be dirt cheap for the most part. I really, really wish I had a keyboard for my 512! I'd do some serious retrocomputing!

 

[neonmac]

Some of you guys have lots of nice Macs.

I think I may beat you all though. I shall go to hyy-vee and buy atleast 40 nice shiny macintosh's.

 

[Jamie-Jamie]

I've got a bowl full of them. Jeff hates them, he'll only eat green apples, but he's too lazy to go to the store with me, so he can stuff it

 

[pigoo3]

I've thought of getting a Classic II, since they seem to be dirt cheap for the most part. I really, really wish I had a keyboard for my 512! I'd do some serious retrocomputing!

What I've found that's really strange...finding keyboards for the older "original" Mac's like the 128, 512, and Mac Plus isn't too hard...it's getting/finding the cord/cable that connects the keyboard to the computer.

Many folks on e-Bay sell the keyboards without the cable...strange!

You're supposed to be able to use a telephone cable...not the one that goes to the wall outlet...but the cord that goes from the phone base to the handset (it's a different cable with a more narrow connector). Then you have to snip off one end, rearrange the wires to make them "straight-thru" rather than "cross-over"...in order to reconnect the end & use the telephone cable as a keyboard cable.

I would prefer to get the original keyboard cable.

- Nick

 

[Jamie-Jamie]

I would too... but failing that... Hmmmmmm... I can do that modification myself!

 

[dtravis7]

Pigoo, where did you find out about the keyboard cable being straight through on a old Mac? Interesting and an easy fix. That also explains why the phone cable never worked. Think I read that ages ago but it's been so long I forgot. You can get those ends sometimes at Wal Mart and Radio Shack. I have the crimping tool that does both sizes of the TelePhone plugs.

Here is a URL with the ends.

MODULAR HANDSET PLUG, 4-PIN | AllElectronics.com

 

[pigoo3]

Pigoo, where did you find out about the keyboard cable being straight through on a old Mac? Interesting and an easy fix. That also explains why the phone cable never worked. Think I read that ages ago but it's been so long I forgot.

I don't remember the exact web page I initially discovered this "trick". But here's a fairly detailed link to a page that explains it:

Mac Plus Keyboard Cable

Awesome to see that someone found this interesting...since we're talking about such as old Mac!

- Nick

 

[dtravis7]

I don't remember the exact web page I initially discovered this "trick". But here's a fairly detailed link to a page that explains it:

Mac Plus Keyboard Cable

Awesome to see that someone found this interesting...since we're talking about such as old Mac!

- Nick

Excellent URL.

Look at my collection at the start of this thread. I was going to repost it but last time I was jumped on for owning all the old Macs so I would rather not, but I have a few.

So yes, I am very interested in anything about old Macs.