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I have a perfectly good working Macintosh SE that I use as my compact Mac (mostly for gaming), but this week I was given a free Macintosh Plus.  The Mac Plus had issues that I fixed (resoldered the analog board, replaced the disk drive, replaced bad memory), and now it's up and running, but it...

After opening up my Mac SE I noticed that it still has the original soldered in battery in it.  Amazingly the battery still appears to work as the time and date settings are stored properly.  Eventually I know I'll have to replace it, but if it's not leaking is it safe to leave it in until it...

I was going to upgrade my G3 iMac to Tiger tonight when I noticed my Tiger disc was a DVD which my iMac won't read.  Am I better off searching for a Tiger CD set or just buy a FireWire DVD reader?  Are most OS X programs for Tiger or older on CD or DVD? 

Will any standard IDE hard drive work in a iMac 3G?  Are there certain brands that I should avoid? I want to replace the 40GB HD in mine.

Will a USB 2.0 switch box work with early Mac USB keyboards and mice (which are not 2.0)? I want to use my mouse and keyboard with two different Macs (an iMac and Cube) but all the USB switch boxes I see are 2.0. I assume it's all backwards compatible.

Maybe this has been answered before, but is it possible to use a USB floppy drive connected to a G3 iMac to create 800K disks for use on older Macs?  I'm going to guess no since it doesn't have the variable motor, but I wasn't sure if software could overcome that.  By create disks I mean use...

I own two Macs and I want to know which would be better for OS 9/X gaming? A 600Mhz iMac G3 or a 450MHz G4 Cube? The Cube has a GeForce 6200 card and 1.5GB of memory. I'm not sure what the iMac has only 128MB of RAM but I can upgrade that.   My gut says the G4 cube, especially for OS X stuff...

I have a Macintosh SE that has a semi-working disk drive.  It seems to read a disk ok at first, but eventually will throw an error when it tries to read certain files (like ID=10 or 16).  I'm guessing this disk drive is on its way out, so I want to try and find a new one.  What is the part...

I had to remove the cardboard insulator pieces from my Macintosh Classic while I repaired it.  Now I'm putting it back together, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to put it back on.  The little black tabs I removed don't want to go back through the holes.  How do you get them back on?

While playing around with my Mac Classic this weekend I noticed something happening with the video. Sometimes two moving lines would appear at the top and bottom of the screen and the video would 'shake' a bit. This happened to me before but it fixed itself before I could figure out the cause...

I have a Power Mac Beige G3 Tower and I'd like to add a USB keyboard and mouse to it.  Would a card like this work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/321364394880 The auction doesn't mention the Beige G3 but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.  

Anyone know if a good way to remove the hard drive in a Color Classic other than removing the entire analog board like the service manual seems to indicate?   This page seems to indicate that you simply push up on the plastic tab and pull the drive towards you...

The disk drive in my Mac Classic has always given me some trouble.  Whenever I'd insert a disk I had to use something to poke the disk in a little further or the drive wouldn't 'grab' the disk and read it.  So today when I had my Classic open to replace the hard drive I decided to clean the disk...

I spent the day trying to put a new 1GB hard drive in my Mac Classic, but I've had zero luck so far. I've been testing these using an internal SCSI enclosure. I'm also using system 6.0.8. Here are the drives I tried. I'm using Apple HD SC setup 7.3.5 IBM dpes-31080 - detected but unable to...

I'm having a weird problem trying to get a CD ROM drive to work with my Mac Classic.  I had a working CD Drive but I decided to use it with a different system, so I found that I had a spare NEC CD-3010A and a spare enclosure so I hooked those up.  I'm using FWB CD Toolkit and the SCSI scan in...

Is there such a thing as an ADB switch box?  I want to use the same mouse and keyboard with my Mac Classic and Color Classic.  If there isn't, can one be made out of an S-Video switchbox somehow?  I wouldn't be switching this while the systems were on, this would be done while they are off.

I have an opportunity to get my hands on a Color Classic, but I have a few questions first: 1. The CC I'm being offered also comes with a LC575 board (Mystic Mod).  He claims he's used the CC with the 575 board (says you need to do a few tweaks to System 7.1), but never did the screen...

I have a nice 4GB hard drive that I was going to use in my Amiga but can't (the Amiga won't detect the CD drive with this hard drive attached for some reason), so I figured I might as well stick it in my Mac Classic.  4GB is just freaking huge for a Mac Classic, so I was thinking I might do...

Quick question for everyone.  Is there any harm in adjusting the horizontal and vertical size of the picture in a compact Mac so it fills the entire screen (no black border)? I currently have my Mac Classic adjusted that way and haven't had any issues, but I don't want to damage it. I thought I...

I have two questions: 1. How do you tell how big of a hard drive you have with System 6? 2. What is the maximum size hard drive you can use with System 6?