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My ClearVue/SE has a space for a standard DB-15 monitor connector to the little breakout box that holds the ports on the back of the SE, but the cable from the logic board of the expansion card is hard-wired into the 9-pin port. Not sure if the 9-pin port is compatible with a standard apple...

Swapped the RAM over and...happy chime! Then no video, no sound of booting. Trying alternative video cards.  Aha! Recognises 820-0198 from 1987, just not the 8•24 from 1990. Makes sense.  Huzzah!

Trag — a good point. Turns out SIM1 and SIM2 are Bank B, and SIM3 and SIM4 are Bank A. This is...less intuitive than it might be. Unfortunately it also means the broken SIMM socket is in the bank that has to be filled. 

I have one of the unicorn cables - I’ve run my portrait from a IIci built in video, a Macintosh Display Card 8•24, an LC475. I’ve ordered a 13W3 cable which I hope to use from my Nubus portrait card. I think you either need the cable or a Nubus card and a 13W3 cable. The latter might be cheaper...

And examining my Aunt's old SE I find the RasterOps ClearVue SE card in it — I fear I threw out the two-page monitor a million years ago. Foolish, foolish.  I see from this archived post at Mac Gui that "This adapter has a high-res frame buffer, selectable for 1024x768 or 640x870 with an...

Continuing my saga of failure, tonight I tried out my Mac II. Dead as a doornail upon initial attempt, multimeter on the batteries indicating they were dead. Unsurprising given they're 32 years old. What was surprising was that they hadn't leaked.  Soldered — amateurishly — a new pair on...

That is an amazingly thorough list. 

Wow this stuff’s complicated. I guess most things are when you’re two weeks into learning about it, but yikes. Thanks all for your replies. I’ll let you know how I go. Might practice on a Performa before I break something a care about. 

Ah, solved one of those mysteries: Bonus. 

And finally got to the Laserwriter I. Don’t know yet if it’s a plain I or a plus (or what version of the plus) but it looks super clean inside apart from one spider corpse. I’ve ordered a new toner cartridge because the foam on the old one has liquidated. Turned it on and it made all the right...

Finally got to trying the LaserWriter IIs. The IIg has the two red flashing lights which the service book tells me means new laser assembly. The IIf boots fine, shows up on a network, and prints...kinda...but with some paper feed issues. 

Oh, and open to offers for the lot. But it’s a lot. Prices reasonable without being a total steal.

This has been a good morning. A LaserWriter I, a LaserWriter IIf, a LaserWriter IIg, and a 13inch trinitron monitor.  The seller (near Bathurst in Australia, so not much use to most of you) has a massive array of apple stuff - at least four SE/30s with Ethernet cards, at least six complete Mac...

Thanks OlePigeon - that’s what I was guessing, but very reassuring to have someone confirm it. 

Okay, so I find I need the following for the IIci (thanks to maccaps - the mm measurements are mine): 8 - 47µf - 16V - SMT — 6.4mm wide 3 - 470µf - 16V - Axial — 21.5mm wide 2 - 10µf - 16V -SMT — 4mm wide 1 - 220µf - 16V - Axial — 16.3mm wide I can’t find anything specifying the ESR I need...

In short: bugger. Time to learn to solder. Seems to be the surface mount ones rather than axial, but guess I should get them all. 

...and IIsi:

“Inspired” by my IIci and IIfx I also checked my IIcx:

Ah. Think you might be right...

Artefacts. Bad RAM or CLUT? Thought it was linked to instability for a while, but then discovered my FloppyEmu was riddled with WDEF-A, which apparently has a bug on IIcis.