my new comp!

My room mate just found this in the trash on his way home!!! I'll test it when I get a chance!

you lucky $%@#$%^#$%^!!!! hahahah enjoy it!

Nice!  Get that beast up and running.

Thats pretty sweet!  What a find!

It's not working....

Makes booting noises, but the crt doesn't power, nor do the LEDs on the keyboard for numlock or capslock...

hence why it was in the trash.. 

if I were you I would keep it around as an ornament and reminder of where apple has come from.

Or......you could mod it with a mini or cube and have a sweet little server for files, music, etc.

im with maestro on this one, mod that sucker.  Throw a mac mini or an old imac guts in it.

Personally, that has Macquarium written all over it. I mean, EVERY Mac modder has to do that eventually. Take that sucker and put a gold fish in it.

ahh the cool mac classic II.. I've got one of those.... nice little machine! I would take the logic board out and check for leaking capacitors/ bad solder joints. I have fixed many old macs by checking those.... also just be  sure, the screen brightness is just not turned all the way down is it? For some odd reason I once had an old mac plus I presumd dead, but it turned out the brightness just wasn't turned up 
If all of the above fails, you may have yourself a dead analog board... then if thats the case you mind as well make a fishtank!

The fishtank mod is dumb. I would hunt down a VGA crt or LCD and a imac logicboard for it.

Or an LCD and a Mac Mini

This is the new plan!.. Only I'm going to try and squeeze my 20.1" wide screen in it  :P
I found this site indicating how to safely discharge the CRT. 
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#DischargeCRT
If anyone else has any pointers regarding this please let me know... I was once shocked by 2000+ volts and it was a very freaky experience.

Discharging DRTs is one of those things. People go on about how dangerous it is, so people rightly take alot of care when doing it. Then its a massive disappointment when you don't get a big spark or something else interesting.

How true. You're sitting there geared p like a scuba diver from outer space,
thining "Oh yeah, this is gonna be sweet! Yeah!", you do it and then, "Oh.
Was that it? Is it done yet?"

Booger.

Then there was the time that I though the display was discharged, and it wasn't.... OUCH

So I had a great idea... I have a good friend who works at my local mac retailer/repair store and he let me come in to discharge the screen, and use their discharge tool.  I  was ready to attempt it at home, but I figured I could wait a few days and use the right tool.  Well it was a bitch trying to get the thing under the rubber of the suction cup.  I took my time twisting it back and forth, trying not to use too much force.  when I got close to the contact I heard some cracking.  But unfortunately it sounded more like glass chipping than anything electrical.. and I heard it on two separate occasions.  I managed to get the tool just barely past the housing of the wire and it would go no further.  I have no idea if I made contact or not... I'm just trying to salvage the case at this point so I don;t care about breaking the tube.
I hate to sound like a wuss, but one good shock is enough to cause me to be pretty paranoid.
Anybody know of a safe way to test if the discharge was successful?

Well I grew my nuts back and went for it.  The machine disassembled pretty quick, except I forgot how snug scsi connectors can be.  Heres some pics...

Next time you discharge a CRT don't bother with the ground wire. When you think about it the Ground wire wouldn't do a thing at all because the gauge is too small and doesn't have enough wire strains. Have to remember ground current moves on the outside of the strans. Just use a plastic handled screw driver and make it touch the tube as you pull off the massive power cable. It will ground it self out. Or you can take a old power cable and cut off the two main power prongs and leave the ground and plug it into a wall for a minute then unplug it and walla. Ofcorse make sure the wall socket has a common ground. I've found a lot of homes don't use a common ground on most sockets.