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Yo-yo power adapters in my experience are very prone to failure. The wires break at the flex points, especially at the adapter end, in where the sun don’t shine and the thing is nigh impossible to repair. I’d try another adapter or test the thing before resorting to further, possibly...

I personally think a PB180 with a working screen is a unique piece of vintage tech that is hard to beat. The screen is the thing; until you have seen one of those in full glory, you’ve not understood the appeal. It is simply magnificent. AND it is actually more legible outdoors in full sun...

Try with a different keyboard?

There was a 7.5.5 update on floppy that came on just a few floppy disks, maybe five or six as I recall. If that is what you have, then you will indeed need 7.5.3 or similar already installed to be able to use those floppies. 7.5.3 came on 20 or so floppy disks. Remember that it belongs to the...

I should perhaps add that the later Launcher (a Control Panel) looks somewhat like At Ease, but I don’t think that would work with System 7. Never felt the need to try it that way. Mind you, I expect that the Launcher was just a GUI for the aliases feature first introduced with System 7. Maybe...

At Ease is intended for children mainly, since it gives access to programs but makes it rather more difficult to access things like the System folder, thus making a machine somewhat tamper-proof. Have you looked at the option of placing Aliases in the Apple Menu? This would be, in my...

I have a strong predisposition to running 7.1 on the Classic II, as it is stable and relatively simple. System 6 (there is a version that works) will make it fly, but 7.1 is still somewhat nimble. However, I also have a vague recollection that one of our old and most knowledgeable members from...

It would be nice to see the brochure scanned and archived somewhere. It is one of the more obscure and wonderful product ranges from that time.

https://www.farratech.com/how-a-toner-cartridge-works/

Years ago I refilled lots of LW cartridges, using eBay-supplied toner bottles. Generally speaking, a new-ish, working toner cartridge that is just low on powder can be refilled and re-used about one time without too much problem, so that, instead of, say 4000 pages you get 7-8000 from that...

Do you have some benchmarks?

The fact that the screen works on other computers does not in and of itself mean it will work with the 840av. I’d make sure to try it with a monitor known to support sync on green, since the 840av is fussy about third party monitors, and that doesn’t look like an Apple-branded monitor to me. I...

That’s quite a list of BOS software. I didn’t think there was ever so much. I liked the eMacs description: “Editor, platform, religion.” My kind of software!

I also like the 030 Compact Macs for writing. It is what they really excel at, as I see it (I like Nisus Writer 5 with Verdana as the screen font). In a certain sense it is what the Compacts were designed for, i.e., the production of documents. They were often just called “word processors” back...

Given the ease with which a board can be ruined by beginners (I speak from experience), I think you’ve made a perfectly sane decision. This is especially the case given the difficulty of desoldering all those through-hole capacitors on the analog board,

I rather like that WritingTableHinterland compound noun!

Amen on the 2 chip chips in an SE/30. I’ve seen instability problems as a result.