Notes

This Classic was handed to me alongside my Uncle Mark’s Apple II, which I’ll probably cover later (we’ve played a game of whack-a-mole with issues on that machine! Well worth it but I haven’t hit a point where enough things are working to cover it well, heh).

The Classic is a strange Mac—it was introduced in 1990 as a budget version of the 1986 Macintosh Plus, with a 68000 CPU in an era when the 68030 was the new hotness.

It started under $1,000, but was a slightly more modern take on the Plus, including a cooling fan, a new motherboard design, and options for up to 4MB of RAM and an internal SCSI hard drive connection. Build log: Macintosh Classic