Recent content by Scott Baret

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...

If you don’t like the thought of replacing an analog board capacitor, you probably wouldn’t like dealing with a PowerBook and some of the issues that it has, especially if you buy one with screen troubles. The LCIII is usually cheaper but the 475 is far faster. Alternately, buy a IIci. It’s...

Given I was the OP of this thread back in the good old days of 2008, I can answer this! :) I was referring to original physical media copies. The reference to the Dell OEM discs reminds me of the time my high school threw out a whole paper box of OEM Windows 2000 discs. There had to have been...

Yes, the 12" RGB has a fitting for a stand. While they are currently out, Apple Rescue of Denver has a good writeup and the part number for this exact stand: https://applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/macintosh-to-powerpc/monitors-amp-displays-macintosh/apple-universal-monitor-stand-m0403/...

As long as you can find the correct cable, it will work just fine. When I had a Lisa years ago, I used an original Imagewriter on it. There were several revisions of the ImageWriter II owners manual. The earliest 1985 printings detailed how to connect it to a Lisa, so it's also officially...

Just a thought--how well re-capped is the logic board? I had an LC in my lab that was eating power supplies. A quick examination of the caps on there revealed that whoever recapped the board didn't use the correct caps. It is likely that this was eating my power supplies up, especially since I...

I found an intact one in a Mac a few years ago and was almost going to frame it as an exhibit, but I was worried what would happen to the glass box I was going to put it in. I instead took it to a recycling event in Columbus, OH along with about a dozen other batteries I had pulled out of...

Yes! T15. Be sure you get a long-shafted driver so you can reach the screws in the upper/handle part of the case.

MacDraw II (no good equivalent) Kid Pix Print Shop New Math Blaster Plus Number Munchers Word Munchers Super Munchers Fraction Munchers ClarisWorks Carmen San Diego (all of the original titles) Oregon Trail Battle Chess Shufflepuck Cafe Swamp Gas The Treehouse Spelunx Kid Works 2 Midnight Rescue...

Does your SE have a white switch PSU or a black switch?

The IIvx gets a bad rap because of everyone who got IIvx-ed in 1993. We've been complaining about it ever since. It's still not a bad machine though. I'd hold it and keep it as-is. And honestly anything seems snappier than a 5200. Use one on a LocalTalk network, then use a Mac Classic. You'll...