One of my coworkers was cleaning out the basement and found an old Macintosh LCIII. He gave it to me for free.



The hard drive is dead, but that’s an easy fix. He had all the original system disks and cables. He also gave me a SCSI CD-ROM, a Style Writer, all the manuals, and a mint sheet of rainbow Apple logo stickers.














I gave the whole thing a good cleaning. It was pretty dirty. I hooked it all up and powered it on. I was greeted with a floppy and a question mark. It looked like the hard drive was dead. I inserted the System 7 installer disk and the computer booted just fine. So I knew at least the computer worked as well as the floppy drive. I opened up the machine to have a look at what type of drive it used. It’s an old SCSI drive. I don’t have any spare SCSI drives lying around so I figured I’d just give all the connectors a little wiggle, reseat everything and try again. Wouldn’t you know it, it powered right up and booted to a desktop! Awesome.

I took it to work today and set it up in the corner of my cube. What a nice piece of computer history. And a nice conversational piece. I had a few people stop by and say “Cool! Haven't seen one of those in years!”

Now if only I had a Mac SE there too!