Macintosh II Software & Manual Box?

[Qrani]

Recently I bought a Macintosh II on craigslist, with a 640x480 monitor, and the computer had the FDHD upgrade kit, with new ROMs and 68MB of RAM, which I didn't know at the time. He had a cardboard box with all the original cords, some modem stuff etc, as well as a wrapped box that says "Open second for learning and reference materials.". When I unwrapped the box, there was a small card that said "Open third for important documents and details.". On the inside of it were four rainbow Apple stickers, two small, two big, an Apple Software License, Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty, and a card that references the Customer Assistance Center, for help. Then, there is a wrapped "Getting Started With Your Macintosh" Manual, that doesn't say for what computer on the back or front, and I really don't wanna unwrap it. Then there's a small booklet titled "HyperCard Basics", but it doesn't say anything about what computer on it either. Then there's a giant book titled "Macintosh Reference", which also doesn't say for what computer it's for. Finally, under all of that, were three system disks. They say System Startup, System Additions, & HyperCard Program.

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[velocityg4]

Sounds like quite the piece. One with most or all the original materials.

Always wanted a Macintosh II. The closest I ever had was a Macintosh II case with a IIfx motherboard upgrade.

 

[DeltaMac]

According to the bar-code label on the side, that box came with a Mac IIsi, not your Mac II

Mac IIsi was my first Mac, learning about Macs, working in a part-time computer support shop in a state gov office in the summer of '92. (often wish I had kept that IIsi)

 

[mduser63]

The fact that the disks are high density is another indication that these were not originally for a Mac II, which only ever shipped out-of-the-box with 800K floppy drives.

 

[defjam]

The fact that the disks are high density is another indication that these were not originally for a Mac II, which only ever shipped out-of-the-box with 800K floppy drives.

Perhaps they were included with the FDHD upgrade he said was installed?

 

[Qrani]

I'm not sure if they were included with the FDHD upgrade kit for the Macintosh II, though it would be pretty weird for it to have the Macintosh IIsi software disks with it, since the IIsi came out after they made a FDHD upgrade kit for the Macintosh II. From what I know, the FDHD upgrade kit was supposed to turn the Macintosh II into a lower power Macintosh IIfx, only replacing an 800KB floppy drive with a 1.44MB drive, and replacing the ROMs so that you could use more than 8MB, and technically, with system extensions, up to 128MB (8x 16MB). Without extensions you could only do 68MB (4x 1MB, 4x 16MB). When I bought the computer, I was only buying the actual desktop and monitor, and when I went to pick up the computer, he said that he had found the Macintosh IIsi software box, not knowing if it went with the computer or not, throwing it in for free.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Definitely not the original contents with the Macintosh II. The "Open Second" / "Open Third" boxes didn't start being used until a few years after the Macintosh II was discontinued. (I think the Classic/LC/IIsi set are the earliest I know of using them, I don't recall any SE having that set, although maybe the IIcx or something about that age did.)