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Ooooh - yes, mine came like this and I've never had the caps. I've definitely daydreamed about finding a way to get replacements 3D printed. I have no personal knowledge or experience with 3D printing / modeling, but if you're willing to use yours as a model and you have some new ones made up, I...

Ooooh - another BeBox owner?! Here's mine, also a dual-66MHz model. Mine is running well with all-original hardware, although the BlinkenLights have never worked in the (nearly) 20 years that I've owned this machine - they bounce a couple times during POST, but never bounce during actual usage...

A local friend messaged me a couple days ago to point out a post on a local community app I'd never heard of (think NextDoor, but hopefully less awful). The poster was offering to give away some vaguely-defined Mac stuff - old magazines, CD-ROM's, books, etc., along with some Berkeley Mac User...

That is super cool - congrats! A school library where I used to work had one of these on a mostly-unused desk in the back of the staff area, and it bums me out that I never made an attempt to claim it. Glad that this one found a loving home! Huxley

Thank you! I'm still buzzing about it a full day later :LOL: Yeah, that place ("Urban Ore") is fascinating - a huge dusty warehouse, filled with... everything. Their inventory seems to turn over pretty frequently, but on any random day you can find old pianos, an entire bathroom, four...

My wife and I were out running some errands yesterday and on a whim we stopped into an awesome local secondhand / junk store. We had a nice time poking around and looking at tons of interesting items, and then I spotted something that made my brain twitch: a Mac-like device, but shorter and...

Thanks for helping make this happen! That's a really interesting idea / point. I guess I just assumed that the hinge would've shipped with some kind of industrial lubricant in there, but maybe not? I'm really curious if anyone knows one way or another... Huxley

Hi all! I just completed a "brain transplant" - I relocated the innards of my Macintosh Portable from the original badly-cracked bottom case to a replacement case (thanks again @ScutBoy!). The operation was a success and my Portable is looking and working beautifully now. However, the hinge...

Hey @RetroTheryboy - could you share any model details of that awesome NCR point-of-sale monitor you rigged up for use with your Apple IIc? It's so cool and such a nice pairing, I'd love to start hunting for one of my own... Huxley

Hi all! I recently bought a really nice Apple IIc kit, which I'm pretty excited about - it's a system I've always admired but never owned. When I bought it a couple weeks ago, the seller gave me a quick demo and everything seemed to be working well. I finally have some time to play with it...

Yup, that's what I'm starting to understand too. SOS is (as the name indicates) very sophisticated by the standards of the early 1980's, but it's also quite different from most other OS's, in the sense that it runs "invisibly" in the background, supporting and providing services to applications...

Yeah, SOS is quite impressive - especially if you compare it against the popular OS's of the day. That said, as a total beginner who is much more familiar with other systems, SOS is quite different and takes me a bit more effort to understand. I'm fortunate in that I already have a ready-made...

I'm happy to report that I have gotten one of my two Apple III's running smoothly! With a deep-cleaning, new Reactive Micro "Universal Power Supply," re-soldered Composite video connector, etc., this machine is running nicely. That said, while I'm far from an expert, I'm much more familiar with...

Ahh got it - thank you for clarifying! I'm happy to have the adapter regardless, but it's comforting to know what its capabilities and limitations are. Appreciate the info! Huxley

This is helpful info, thank you! The one detail that I can't figure out from the Github page is this: if I connect the Floppy Emu (via the adapter) to the external floppy port on the Apple III, will I be able to boot the system from a bootable disk image on the FloppyEmu, or does booting require...

Given its business-oriented design and short lifespan, I do understand that the library of software (especially entertainment / games) for the Apple III is microscopic compared to the Apple II. With that said, I'll be exhibiting one of my Apple III's in early June and I'm looking for any...

Hi again @jajan547! I bought two of these Apple III-to-Floppy Emu adapters from you recently, and I have a couple questions. The adapters I received look great with their blue 3D-printed enclosures (see pic below), but they don't look like anything pictured in this thread and I can't find any...

This is beyond awesome - thanks for sharing the info and files! Now I just have to look into getting the boards made up... Huxley

Haha no rush on the Mac Portable stuff - as you can see, I've got my hands full with other projects! Good point about the PSU though, not sure about that. My general understanding is that the primary cause of early Apple /// failures was due to the motherboard warping as heat built up, rather...

I'm definitely interested! I don't have any experience whatsoever with PCB manufacture or anything like that, but if the design exists and is available, that puts me (and probably others) a big step closer towards having cooler-running Apple /// systems! Huxley