Recent content by Scott Baret

I'm pretty sure old versions of MacInTax used to come with one called TaxType that was monospaced. Don't quote me 100% on it being monospaced but I do remember TaxType being installed. It's a font specifically designed for tax forms and, without looking at my most recent tax return, I'm pretty...

I'll take some!! We go through them like crazy in the lab when people print Kid Pix drawings (which is a good thing).

Something new at VCF--exhibitors got first dibs on the consignment area. (There are TONS of Macs there this year by the way). Tonight, I scored a IIci for $65 along with an Apple Monochrome Monitor, AppleDesign keyboard, and ADB mouse. I also bought an Apple Keyboard II for $15 since I just...

So I smacked the Mac a few times on the side and we have a sign of life. The raster appears momentarily. If I keep my hand pressed against the side of the computer, I can see a partial raster for an extended period of time. The screen isn't overly bright and there still is no sound, but we have...

In this case it may be what wasn't done given that this computer has essentially sat for 35 years. I'm also not sure what kind of conditions it was in (I'd assume a garage since the computer has a lot of black gunk on it that will probably take me 20 minutes and a lot of isopropyl to clean up).

I do have a functional spare analog board...should I try that first just to see if it springs to life?

A deep clean of the board might be worth trying.

The SE went over to FDHD/SuperDrive in August 1989. Your SE is from the 15th week of 1989, so you're about 15 weeks too early (possibly less depending on when the SE FDHD began rolling off the assembly line). Earlier SE FDHD models were badged as FDHD underneath the Macintosh SE badge (of...

So this is a new one to me. I picked up a Plus (upgraded 128K from the 11th week of 1984) from the son of the original owner. It's been in storage since 1991 and came to me in the box of the computer that replaced it (an SE SuperDrive). The machine turns on and the floppy drive makes its sound...

I have an LPS I need to get going, but the screws are stripped on it. Any ideas as to what I could use on them that would be safe for a hard drive?

Technical note on the speeds: the IIc and IIe Enhanced both use a 1MHz 68C02.

Back in 2001, I bought an SE that had that mod. There was actually a 3.5" Quantum ProDrive (the older model, not the LPS/ELS) in there along with two floppies--both FDHD as a bonus!! It cost me a whopping $25 at a garage sale and also included a few boxes of disks plus some random Apple III...

And now I'm tempted to get another floppy drive, mod one of my lab LCs, and stick an external BlueSCSI on the back of it...too bad the case isn't big enough to do the dual floppy plus a hard drive/hard drive replacement hack like in an SE.

When I had a IIe, I had a Super Serial Card, a floppy interface card to drive a DuoDisk or two UniDisks, and a mouse card. It was a pretty good combination for general use, although like bibilit, I didn't really find I was using the mouse much at all (although Dazzle Draw is a GREAT paint...

One caveat is that the original LC uses a different case base than the later models. This also has to do with its speaker/fan assembly, which connects via contact to the logic board rather than through a cable. Later LC models use an individually-cabled speaker and fan. Basically, any case...