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Oh, I should also say that there was no sign of the package being mishandled. They’ve obviously not been as gentle as they might’ve been, but I don’t think I can hold a shipping company to the standard necessary to protect something so badly packed. Didn’t even have “delicate” written on it. 

It shouldn’t be revenge shipping - I paid the buy it now price. I think it’s just stupidity. Not sure if it powers on or prints. I’ll try it out tonight. The latches for the top cover are broken so it might not trigger the relevant sensors. Even if it works flawlessly, I’m not inclined to do...

Yes, lesson learned. I’ll try the high maintenance approach from now on. I guess it’s worth spelling out the value as a collector’s item, but I just can’t understand anyone sending something of value this negligently. 

It’s a real shame. He just responded: I m sorry to hear that it s damaged; it didn t mean to be damaged. But since it s damaged, can I offer you a partial refund of 60 dollars while you keep the item and the cartridge, which, when I bought it, was worth 170+. Oh good! A cartridge for a...

Ugh. Snared a working LaserWriter 4/600 with a spare cartridge and the brain genius seller posted it without any padding. At all. Loose in a box. Predictable results. I’ll get a refund through eBay, presumably, but what a goddamned waste. 

I’m with Cheesestraws, but I agree that Phone et is the logical choice. Rumour was that Apple itself used PhoneNet. 

Sigh. Plugged my LaserWriter IIg board into my one working LaserWriter II body, it printed two pages. Turned it off to change toner cartridges, turned it back on...all four lights stayed on. Bugger. Logic board problem, I gather. Back to the IIf.  Which leads to my next question: is there a way...

Oh, and I’ve just about finished imaging all those font files. 

The MacDraft disk is tricksy. It asks for a master disk on launch whether done from a backup floppy or the hard drive. Copy II Hard Drive seems not to work. Copy II Mac will do a sector copy to a FloppyEmu disk image, but it doesn’t work - tells me there’s an error reading sector 58 on track 4. ...

A new arrival today - a boxed copy of MacDraft, a bunch of networking cables, and an Apple Universal Monitor Stand.  The last one was a bit of a coup - while it doesn’t have the plastic plate in the middle with the lip that holds the monitor in place, it’s still good as long as I don’t tilt it...

Latest acquisition: a giant collection of PostScript fonts for my newly working LaserWriter. I’ll image the disks and post them to the usual places. For all the significance of desktop publishing to the early Mac there’s not as much early DTP specialist software out there as one might expect. 

Oh, and it boots and has a very-broken 80meg hard drive. 1 meg of ram. Nothing special. Managed to retrieve a fair bit of the data from the drive - have offered it to the family. Assuming they want data about managing a horse stud in the 1980s and 1990s...

It has less charge than the air around me, according to my possibly-not-wholly-accurate multimeter. But I’ll take not exploding or leaking any time.    Not a bad score — the screen is a bit out of focus and has a little burn-in, but I have about twenty 9-inch CRTs, so I should be right.   ...

An SE and ImageWriter II from a local estate auction. Hard drive seems to be dead and the floppy is gummed up, but it works. Two of the nice older small keyboards too. All fairly yellow, but in good nick otherwise. Boots to flashing question mark.    One of the keyboards has a bung space bar...

A better day today. After a week of disappointments and things breaking: Now obviously it's not the cleanest printout in the world, but a new cartridge shouldn't be hard to come by. Who knows if it'll continue to work reliably (the paper feed seems to have magically fixed itself by sitting in...

According to the tech manual the issue should be the power supply, so I guess I’ll crack that open and have a look. Scary voltages inside....

Today's mess: Fool that I am, I trusted a seller saying "it works". Perhaps it does, perhaps he's honest and just the act of transporting the thing killed it, but having not seen it power up in his house I can't shake the feeling that I've been conned.  Ah well.  Making a request over in...

Riiiight. As per my conquests thread, it was meant to work and...doesn't. Nothing at all when plugged in. You never get this sort of nonsense from an ImageWriter.  Following the table on page 4.16 of the service manual it seems the power supply is dead. I got through to "5 Connect the...

Mud. Dunno what happened to them exactly, but I suspect they were in a basement that flooded. Perfect condition otherwise, but...yeah. Need a wash. They were essentially free ($20 for four, I think), although they were in Coonabarabran, so not convenient. Figured I'd get some good condition...

Thanks again Superjer. Much obliged.