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By the way, if anyone has a suggestion who to entrust with this task in the Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, I'm grateful for it. It's not something I would do myself.

Hi people, thanks for the advice. Knowing my soldering skills, I'm just going to find a competent outside party to do the recap for me.

Dear all, I am on the brink of buying a Classic II off someone. As this was the first new Mac model I ever bought with my own money (I had a used SE before) I'd been looking for one for a while and this one is a very good specimen. From what I can gather from photos, the motherboard looks...

Hi Apache Thunder, Nice machine. I've still got the SE I bought as a teenager back in 1989, and bought an SE/30 along with it a while ago. On eBay they're expensive, but on local (online) markets they're still affordable; the going rate in my part of Europe (Netherlands/Germany) is around...

Just to let you know the end of this saga: I found someone willing to trade their keyboard cable against a deceased Classic II, so I'm saved.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep that in mind. But ideally I'd like to have a used, original one.  Cheers, Ilja

Hi everyone, Tomorrow, I'm going to pick up a (non-upgraded) 512K Mac that someone needed to get rid of (fine with me). It is a good-looking machine, and still works. There are two parts failing, however: the mouse (which can still be had off eBay) and the phone-style keyboard cable. I have...

Thanks, all. The next project will be to get a Lenovo T60 running with Basilisk II to create my own ... erm... Powerbook. Should work...

In that case, could you help me along? Because I can't make it work. Opening a Nisus Compact file in Writer Pro causes it to be converted, so any save action creates a new (.rtf) file. These files are not recognized by Nisus Compact, so this is where things appear to stop...

Thanks Elfen, I got Basilisk to work with 7.5.3; the only thing is that it sometimes fails to recognize my virtual hard drive as its startup volume. But with some tinkering I can get that going again. 

Yes, but while Nisus Writer reads Nisus Compact files perfectly, the reverse is not the case. Unless I missed something...

Hi all, I'm trying to get Basilisk II to work with System 7.5.3, but sofar it has been an extremely frustrating experience. I am using a Macbook Pro retina with 8 GB of RAM and Yosemite 10.10.3 installed. When setting up Basilisk, I followed these instructions to the...

@beachycove: thanks for those tips. Nisus is a good suggestion, although I see that v5 doesn't run on anything < System 7. Because I wish to use both my SE and SE/30 (one at home, one at the office) I would prefer to stick with my beloved System 6.0.8 if at all possible. But I'll switch to 7...

Thank you Elfen, this is very useful. Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember having used PC Exchange in the past. Since I have two complete sets of system floppies, there may be a copy of that application on one of them. For the moment, my priority is to get the SE back to pristine...

HI all, Thanks for all your answers. Reading back I realize that my question was formulated a bit obliquely, so allow me to tell you a bit more. I'm currently finishing two books, and I regularly write shorter pieces, varying from academic articles to newspaper columns. I'm an historian of...

Hi all, First of all, apologies if this has come up before (it must have, but I couldn't find it).  Last month I was able to purchase a recapped SE/30 from a guy near where I live (Leiden, Netherlands) with two hard drives, for next to nothing. If I assessed the situation correctly, he was...

As a student, I bought a new Classic II (a bit of an impulse buy, overlooking the fact that I couldn't actually afford it) in the summer of 1995, and it had a manufacture date of 1994. Fond memories of that machine – I wrote my Master's thesis on it. Should never have sold it.