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They are due to arrive this week.  :) I'll put them up for sale once I verify quality and function.

Yeah.  This is what brought me to this little international retro technology rescue adventure.  I recently opened my still vacuum sealed NOS color ribbons only to find that they would print a few color lines before completely giving up.  Here is a picture of the inside of a vintage NOS ribbon...

Correct, sadly.  In order to print in color you need MacPalette II.   http://www.jagshouse.com/colorimagewriter.html That would be fantastic!  I wonder how much work it would take.  The IW II uses a C.ITOH printing engine so if any other related printers have color support then that code might...

Yeah, and here is a driver: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/imagewriter Here is a video of someone getting an IW II to print from an iPad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpRIn10Mcw Yes.  Also, tractor-feed labels are available on Amazon and...

Many black ribbons used a plastic gear mechanism for advancing the ribbon.  This mechanism didn't deteriorate like the felt rollers inside the color ribbons.  In making these new ones I have specifically asked the factory to make them with the gear drive instead of felt rollers so they will last...

UPDATE:  I have worked with the factory and we have reached an agreement.  I've paid them and they are preparing to manufacture some new ImageWriter color ribbons.  These are probably going to be the first ImageWriter ribbons manufactured in a decade.   When they get through customs and such...

I've contacted them so I'll let you guys know what I find out.

Hi folks. As you all know many of the existing color IW II ribbons are unusable because the foam rollers have deteriorated.  I find it a bit sad that the IW II can't be used for color printing anymore.   I was looking around and I found an interesting Chinese site...

Thanks onlyonemac! You are awesome. I am still looking for additional old viruses if anyone knows of additional sources.

I am researching old (pre-OS X) Mac viruses, the older the better.  I've found references to quite a few historic documents that speak about their methods of infection (INIT hooks and such) and their triggers but I would like to be able to find actual copies of some of them for analysis.  Does...

That seems totally logical and it probably was.  (I really wish I could remember more details!)  Most of the animation stuff in that era (even the Apple Tutorial) was created in Director.  Those Macs were my first introduction to System 7.5 and I remember finding the Apple Tutorial as a kid...

First off, yes.  There are a few: - "I Love Native" - StripPPC (strips only PPC) - Strip68K (counter-app to StripPPC, it strips 68K) There might be a few others but I can't remember their names immediately. It is worth noting that 68K Macs load programs in segments, unlike PowerPC Macs...

I really wish I could remember.  It would make finding it much easier!

When I was in school I was in a group of "advanced" kids who were allowed to do extra stuff on the computers in the computer lab.  This also meant that we could meet in the computer lab and work on stuff instead of sit through certain classes on days when there was only busy work.  I know what...

Ah yes, I had a dumb moment.  You are correct, I was thinking in terms of cores.  There are some issues in terms of pipelining and the order of execution but yes, it's not as dramatic as a redesign for SMP. Although some work has been completed in getting this to run as a Mac I am still...

That's another problem, actually.  The '020 was/is capable of multiprocessing but this was never implemented on the 68K-era Mac.  It doesn't matter if your system has 1 core or 256 cores if the software was only written to utilize 1 of them. In PC land there are even cases where running old...

This is a very interesting (and timely) discussion since I am working on an ImageWriter II as well. While Apple never wrote color drivers for the ImageWriter II, at least one third party developer did.  The one I am familiar with is MacPalette II and it will allow you to print in full color...

Have you checked the capacitors?  Based on the age of the CD 300 they are probably leaking and may well cause the drive to malfunction.   It is at least a good sign that the drive shows up on the SCSI bus though.

When my Mac TV sound stopped working a few years ago it was indeed because of bad caps.  I think that with the Mac TVs sound is the first clue that something is wrong. And yes, the TV board is really packed with caps.

As an owner of a Mac TV I will guarantee that it is capacitor related.  Even if you get this machine to boot again you SHOULD NOT use it until it is recapped.  You will destroy it by doing so.