Picked up a nice Mac Plus 1mb setup at a yard sale today with a hard disk and some other stuff. Booted it up, transport disk stuck in the drive, managed to get it out with a paperclip and soon after, the screen dies. I think it works otherwise, I can hear the boot beep still.
My success rate with classic Macs working is like 1 for 5 now! I had 1 DOA, 2 with the screen screw up pattern (one of which had that happen after it worked), and this one with the screen dieing right before my eyes. I know they are repairable, but I have no plans to learn to discharge the monitor.
Anyone else have such bad luck with these things? Sucks because I would love to have kept this unit. All I have in my collection is a working SE/30. Well, it was working last time I tested it. I really just want a color mac classic and something like this one, a Mac plus. Maybe a CIB unit would be nice.