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Retro find: Apple Macintosh Performa 475

This is one of my Macintosh findings from a local recycling center, a Performa 475 'pizza box' computer for 15 euros (about 18 USD). As you can see this unit is in great conditions, and I actually wasn't able to find even single scratch on the body. It came without a keyboard or a mouse but luckily I was able to find few keyboards, mice and vga-adapters (DB-15 to VGA) from apple community forum for a decent price about 5-10 euros a piece (that's about 5 to 12 USD). I just wonder how it was able to survive all these years without a single scratch. Someone really cared for this unit. Look inside Opening the cover of this mac is really easy, just snap those clips open from the back and the cover pops off. As you can see there's Motorola 68LC040 processor with 25Mhz. I think the amount of ram is more than factory default 8 Megabytes (Just can't tell how much). SCSI hard-drive is whopping 160 megabytes. There's a 3.5 inch floppy-drive and all the

Retro find: Snoopy Game & Watch tabletop

A While ago I was visiting our neighbour town where happened to be a trailer-flee market taking a place. We had to stop and take a look with my family. Actually I was the driver so they had no choice :) After walking around for a while I met a older man with this old but working Nintendo's Snoopy Game & Watch tabletop which he was willing to sell for 50 euros. Overall quality is decent as there are no big dents, cracks and or broken buttons. After some bargain and finding out that the battery cover was missing we settled the price at 25 euros. Testing again at home I was happy to see that everything was working perfectly, sound, gameplay, buttons etc. That battery holder DIY tape fix really needs some better alternative. Still a good find in my opinion as being pretty rare Nintendo Game & Watch. Now that I think of, I've probably seen a tabletop version only once before. I'll get back to this when I manage to make or buy new battery cover for