Just got this Macintosh 128k with some weird mods, are these mods rare?

Posted by Eddie_2011@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 7 comments

I just won an auction on a Macintosh 128k for a really good price, and it came with a fan hot glued into the back case, and a 512k memory expansion card. Just want to know if these are common mods to the 128k.

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Creepy_Basis_4869@reddit

I added an aftermarket SCSI board to mine. Yes, it caught on fire a few years later, but that’s another story…

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Eddie_2011@reddit (OP)

Bro, WE need you to tell that story(ping me in the comment of the story)

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Creepy_Basis_4869@reddit

This would’ve been in the very late 80s or perhaps early 90s when I was a grad student, which meant that I stayed up all night and slept during the day, which turned out to be a good thing because my Mac which had a fan on the top of it started spewing out jet black smoke straight toward the ceiling at 2 in the morning! I grabbed it and ran into the kitchen and held it under the faucet. It was a very good thing that I was awake when it happened.

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Eddie_2011@reddit (OP)

You know, Steves whole thing with hating fans was because it was too loud, and it was "too industrial". The being loud thing i get, but i guess that safety is also "too industrial". This is also why the apple III failed, because it overheated. All it would have needed would be a fan, improved apple SOS and a better backwards compatibility system with the apple II. If it had that, then it would be a smashing success in the business market.

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