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    Macintosh SE Mystery Card - Help solve the puzzle!

    I picked up a Macintosh SE and a Macintosh SE/30 from a local craigslist ad for FREE. The SE/30 works beautifully and is in excellent condition. What a find! But the Mac SE was advertised as "for parts only" due to an unknown flaw. The back of the SE was marked "Two 800k Drives" but the...
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    Mac IIci - Recapped and Won't Turn On

    I just recapped my Mac IIci. I was very careful. But I did wash by hand and dry the motherboard, just as I have done with other boards without problems. All the caps seem to have installed fine. But when plugged in, nothing happens. Pressing the power button does nothing. Pressing the...
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    Macintosh Classic II - Recapping the Board - SUCCESS!!

    Well it was my first try re-capping a classic Mac, and I started with the Classic II. I got my replacement tantalum caps from Trag in the Trading Post subforum here on 68kmla. He was kind enough to ship me 13 replacement capacitors: 47uF qty 3 10uF qty 8 1uF qty 2 I went to work using two...
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    Mac IIci Haul w/040 card and magneto optical lot

    This was quite a find on my local Craigslist. I paid $100. For that I got: Mac IIci - good condition, 32mb ram, and a DayStar 040 card, with a 1250 MB internal drive (wow) Apple Color Monitor External CDROM drive that works External MAGNETO OPTICAL drive that takes 128MB 3.5" disks About...
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    Problem: Stuffit Expander 5.5 Crashes when Unstuffing

    On my Quadra 800, I have Stuffit Expander 5.5 installed, and am attempting to decompress files downloaded from Macintosh Garden. It works on some files, but many of the files begin extracting only to stop after the first file. Stuffit Expander then just quits with no error code, nothing...
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    Dilema: Mounting a 9GB SCSI Drive under System 7.6

    Interesting problem. I have a Quadra 800, which is a super nice machine. I also bought two external hard drives. Unfortunately, neither of the external drives is mountable on the Quadra. The first external drive is an Apple External Hard Drive, 9GB. It won't open under System 7.5.1. So I...
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    Hyperdrive FX-20

    I have a Hyperdrive FX-20 external SCSI hard drive that I acquired with a Mac Plus off eBay a few months ago. The Mac Plus works great, but the FX-20 isn't working. All attempts to rehabilitate the drive have failed. Apple HD SC Setup 7.1.1 attempts to format the drive, but it fails on...
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