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I wanted to say that I actually ended up selling the PowerBook 180 I started this thread about awhile back! I had something else come up I REALLY wanted, and I ended up getting another very nice 180 that I baked and fixed the screen on which is my "main" one anyway, so I decided to list this one...

I'm happy to hear you have had success with baking and leaving the PCB attached as well. Trying to get those zebra strips realigned is a complete and utter nightmare so being able to avoid that entirely is amazing. That is a HUGE improvement! Very nice. Hopefully that little dark spot doesn't...

Yes, absolutely. But I’ve literally had people post on threads I’ve started about machines and question why I bothered fixing the hard drive and didn’t “use a CF card instead.” I think that’s so silly. For example, I had one person on a thread about a laptop I restored that just kept going on...

Glad you got it fixed! Always love seeing old drives repaired. I recently repaired a Conner CP3040A 40MB SCSI drive (had the same issue as your Quantum) and it’s currently running great in my SE! Even though we have modern solutions like BlueSCSI, there’s a certain charm to having a real...

Nice! Yeah, I currently have a little table set up with my SE, a Plus and a 512k on it, so I’m pretty well covered I think! I love my little compacts. Yes, finally having an affordable accelerator option for my SE really has been a dream come true!

Nice! Love the purple PCB as well! Yes, I agree it’s not quite SE/30 level performance, but I did not expect it to be. It does take the extension a bit to load on System 7.1 for whatever reason, but I’m not too bothered by that honestly. I haven’t tried to use it much without the extension...

Very nice! Love hearing other people’s experience with this accelerator. Curiously, I was not able to boot my SE (an original 1987 model with 800k ROMs) with or WITHOUT the extension installed on System 7.0.1 (with the System 7 tuneup). So I had to pull the accelerator back out, update to 7.1...

Yes, one with extra RAM would be insanely cool! The 4MB is reasonable for my relatively modest needs, but 8MB or 16MB would be a very welcome upgrade though!

I would too! I assume it probably isn’t quite as fast as an SE/30, but it’s probably pretty close to the Classic II if I had to guess.

I have been patiently waiting for many years for an affordable reproduction accelerator for the Mac SE, and the time has finally come! I wasn’t even aware these were out until I saw Ron’s video on it, and I immediately went and bought one! Here it is installed onto my SE’s logic board (please...

I 100% do NOT believe in not using vintage stuff and just letting it sit, but here I have to agree. If you want to run a compact mac 24/7 I see absolutely no reason to use a 128k. I love firing up my 128 and playing around with it, but a Plus, SE or even a 512k would be much more practical for...

Wow, that is amazing! I have been wanting one of the early serial hard drives for a long time for my early Macs. Love collecting and playing around with the early hard drives. Many of them are a lot more reliable than you might think too! I have lots of MFM/RLL drives that still work fine. Is...

Oh darn, I completely forgot to show this! I picked this up about a month ago. It’s another non-enhanced 512k! I already have one, but I really wanted another as a backup, because that’s one of my favorite machines. It came untested and very dirty, but after some cleaning, resoldering the...

Found another M0110 keyboard and M0100 mouse set for a decent price on eBay! The keyboard was made in the 31st week of 1984, and the mouse is the earlier “square connector” variant and was made in the 39th week of 1984. The mouse is pretty worn but it works fine. The keyboard initially was...

Finally got my lovely iMac G4 set back up! Such an amazing and beautiful design. This is the 15” USB 2.0 model. Has always been a very dependable machine. I went ahead and removed the battery bomb and added new thermal paste for added reliability too. And wow, I forgot how great the Pro Speakers...

Long story short, the SCSI bus on my SE completely failed while I was using it a few days ago! Upon restarting it would not properly recognize any drive connected, even my BlueSCSI. I’m happy to say that replacing the SCSI chip solved my problem! I also added a socket, so if the chip ever fails...

Hah! I wish it was that easy! That would actually be really funny to try just to see the disastrous result (on a junk drive of course).

I've got quite a few working Miniscribes still! The 5.25" ones I have found to actually be quite decent. The main issue with the 3.5" ones I have found, like the SCSI 8425S/SA in the SE, is that they are quite prone to stiction, and the only solution unfortunately is to replace the platters! I...