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Or you could just go the lazy route, put the contents of the Classic's ROM disk on a floppy, and use it to boot the Mac. It's 6.0.3, so it will work. Also, does anyone know the story behind the funky Brightness control panel on the ROM disk? It's a vertical slider and the sun icon is thinner...

I don’t think anyone here has yet mentioned the platinum 512Ke that wasn’t badged as an ED. It looks like a Plus from the front with the non-square Apple logo being in line with the drive, but has no silkscreened words on it. The rear is a 512k bucket in platinum. I’ve only ever seen one and I...

They were designed to be cheap. The Classic is essentially a repackaged SE SuperDrive with a bunch of features missing (expansion slot, second floppy, second ADB port). There are some very obvious cost-cutting measures such as the smaller board, inferior power supply (compare it to the Sony in...

Don't forget the case variation of the Classic II. Some have the speaker grille, some (mostly very early ones from 1991) don't.

Just don't be so pointless that we have to refer you to the Department of Redundancy Department...

Awesome score there! I always thought Cyan's best titles were the three earliest ones: The Manhole, Cosmic Osmo, and Spelunx. (I always wished they would have made more rooms for Spelunx and I have long thought about trying to program one, but alas, my art skills are nowhere near my HyperCard...

@bigmessowires since we're talking a lot about the reasons we love Tetris Max, I have to ask...how did you and Peter Wagner get acquainted? The music in the game is great and there are actually quite a few remixes of the song on YouTube, believe it or not.

The Cook Tetris sounds like a really awful adaptation of the game, but there is one far worse than that called Tetricycle...OK, who remembers the big reason that one was so bad?!?

Good thing I bought that LC 575 in June and convinced myself to hold on to it.

Do you have any photos?

I'd say the logic board recap is your first step. If you're not good after that, recap the AB. I've heard they fail sometimes on the 5xx, but I've mostly heard about issues with the AB on the somewhat related Color Classic.

The iMac G5 was notorious for bad capacitors too.

They should swap just fine. I've done it many times.

Herb is actually a good guy. I met him at VCF one year. You may want to look into Apple Rescue of Denver. They sometimes have small parts.

I'd keep both if I were you. They're similarly powered but two completely different machines. Interestingly, they occupied sort of the same place in the market in 1991: mid-level computers that were between the budget line (LC and Classic) and power user line (IIci and IIfx). However, one thing...

I once saw this on an SE that had one drive replaced with a 1.4MB and the other 800K drive retained.

At least the Centris isn't also 32-bit dirty on top of that!!

In this era, a common solution was to get a Mac Classic (often free in school surplus at the time) and use it to convert the disks. This worked both for iMac/iBook users who wanted to use old 800K disks or for people who used those newer computers to try to get shareware from the web to a Plus...

The belt seems fine, but I think you're on to something with the caps... After I packed up my lab to transport it, I stopped for a milkshake. When I got back into my car, I was greeted with the unmistakable smell of bad caps. All of the Macs I took with me have been re-capped. It's the newer...

One of our ImageWriters is down…if I plug it in and turn it on, this is what happens: No movement, no select light, no response from any buttons. It had made a hard stop against the left side while warming up after loading paper. Any ideas? I already bought another one if this isn’t a decent...