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A year or two ago fully refurbished IIc's were going for around $400.

From what I've seen, I presume that Macs have a roughly V-shaped curve when value is plotted over time.  Expensive when they first come out, the value drops over 10-20 years until they're considered nothing more than obsolete and worthless, and then from that point on the value rises as they get...

I just started having the same problem with my LC about a week ago: I turned my Mac on, only to get a popping sound which I traced to the speaker.  Opening it up, I saw that the fan was also twitching with each pop.  I pulled the fan/speaker assembly and got just a faint clicking from the power...

My Monitor II manual mentions both green and amber options.

I'm still working on finding various disk images and getting software onto my old Macs.  I've networked my new Performa 575 with my LC and 512ke, which has helped a lot with hard drive space. I'm not usually one to be critical of people who donate their time and effort to the cause, but I feel...

I found these same bits in the original 800k floppy drive of my 512ke after I took it out of my closet and felt confident enough to restore it.  The floppy drive had been basically shot (with short bouts of functionality) ever since I got it, and had only deteriorated from there.  When I...

Well, I'm trying again.  I got a Performa 575 on eBay and I'm having it shipped out the day after labor day.  The seller is having it packaged by a company that specializes in packing things for shipping, who he regards very highly.  Apparently they've had a perfect track record with his fragile...

Update:  Finally got my AppleCD 300 fully working with version 5.3.1 of the CD-ROM driver, which I found on the Internet and transferred to my LC using Floppy Emu. I wonder why this made a difference?

Update:  I was finally able to run the software I wanted.  After following the steps I listed above, I upgraded my LC from System 7.0 to System 7.1 in order to run Disk Copy 6.3.3.  The Floppy Emu with the vintage software collection SD card from Big Mess o' Wires (which includes several System...

​ The software is the original version of Amazon Trail (not the CD version), which I found at Macintosh Garden. Will Disk Copy 6.3.3 work on a Macintosh LC running 7.0?

Update:  I put the .sit file inside a HD20 image and used my new Floppy Emu to transfer the file to my Macintosh LC.  I was then able to copy the .sit file out of the HD20 image and used StuffIt Expander to unpack it on my Mac.  Inside was a .img file, as expected. The problem now is that Disk...

Update:  I got a refund and I left positive feedback for the seller.  I'm convinced he wasn't at fault, and the fault was with Canada Post who didn't take good care of a package with "fragile" labels highly visible from every angle.  The kicker was when they sent me a questionnaire asking if I...

The floppy disk I got from eBay is Macintosh CD-ROM Setup Version 4.0, from 1992. Update:  I still haven't gotten this working...

I was able to take a look inside one of the images using TransMac (if I remember correctly).  It contained the basic program files you would expect, just quite a bit bigger than a floppy disk could hold.  Maybe someone just copied them from their hard drive onto a disk image without regard for...

I had seen Floppy Emu before when I was searching for a solution for Apple II software, but I didn't realize it worked for Macintosh disk images as well.  Looks like it would pretty efficiently accomplish what I want. The oversized disk images I'm referring to are in excess of 5 MB.  Can Floppy...

For the past two nights I've been trying without avail to get Macintosh software downloaded from the internet onto Macintosh formatted floppy disks via my Dell running Windows XP. This tutorial for example proved practically useless. I've downloaded around 10 different utilities, and probably...

I have working AppleCD 300 that I'm trying to bring up to normal functionality (i.e., reading CDs when I insert them into the drive).  I have it hooked up to a Macintosh LC running System 7.0. The drive will read a bootable CD when I restart the computer.  But, then it doesn't let me eject or...

So I bought a Performa 580CD on eBay recently.  It was in full working condition when it was shipped, but it was badly damaged during shipping (see attached photos).   The front of the case is completely broken away from the rear.  Looks like it was thrown from the back of a truck.  Currently...