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Did you use a tool to remove them or just bare hands? I did dig up your old thread where you had new caps on the screen. If you don't mind, do you have the list of caps you ordered? I'd probably use tantalum caps myself; have them in my LC and it's been working great since I put them in.

How did you remove your caps? I'll have to look that video up. I did just look up the keyboard replacement procedure and found it; it looks easy and I could do that first. I can always find a display adapter and run it from the extra 13" monitor I have just to test it for functionality. This...

Awesome! Have you done the recap for the screen? If so, how tough was it? Mine just has a blank gray screen but the hard drive works. Playing with brightness and contrast don’t work unless you turn brightness all the way down, then it goes black/off.

It's a 145B in otherwise great shape aside from needing new caps for its screen.

Would a 180c Keyboard work? I have one I’m parting out.

What's the best way to clean a discolored PowerBook keyboard? Some of the keys are more brown than gray, not sure how that happened. I haven't tried my usual keyboard cleaner yet but I figure someone here probably has played around with this!

Somewhere I may still have a 2.7 CD if all else fails. I have no idea if I tossed it...I may have...but there's a chance it's in with a bunch of other CDs that I may be going through this week.

I'm curious if Claris CAD would have anything that would be able to do this. I'm not sure how high-end it was, but it always intrigued me when I saw it in the Claris catalogs. (At $800 it was a pipe dream, and even now, there's no way I'd spend $800 on a piece of software). Most of these names...

When the 900 was being developed, its internal codename was IIex. My guess is that it was a "fast, enhanced, extended Mac II" if you follow the naming logic. Given its size and position in the lineup, it's very reasonable to think of the IIfx as the starting point for the design. Interestingly...

It's very easy to swap between the II, III, and 475 boards. In fact, where I went to school, we swapped several of our IIs for IIIs just in board. (We also had to buy hard drives because we we bought the stripped-down LC II without them and the III, of course, requires 7.1). Speaking of...

You can always turn the button on the PSU by 90º to see if it was in the "always on" position. This was done as a failsafe on these machines in case they were used as servers and power was interrupted. Of course, it could just be a wonky PSU or even something on the board. I have a IIci with...

If you boot with an English OS 9 CD, you can install over the French version.

Nice work with this!  I have a Keyspan serial adapter sitting around...wonder what it would take to get an ImageWriter II going on Catalina? 

Classic II requires the later one 99% of the time, but I did once see a Classic II with the earlier connector. My guess is that it had been cobbled together out of an older analog board and CRT, probably from a donor Classic I. Every SE uses the older style CRT, which are super common. They're...

Regarding the C drive, I've seen some computers that have left it unnamed, but my IBM PS/1 shipped with a C drive called "MAIN FOLDER". Keep in mind the PS/1 was supposed to be the more user-friendly IBM, almost equal to the Performa line in a sense, so it could be they did that to help users...

If you swapped anything, be sure you swapped model for model. There are two revisions to this monitor, which involve a 100V difference.

SetDate is a lifesaver and is currently on or will be on all of my classic Macs.  When I was still running my lab, pre-pandemic, I hadn't yet deployed SetDate to all of the machines. It will be something I do this summer when I do my annual maintenance on them. If you want days of the week to...

The connector in particular I'm looking for is the one that fits the half-height style...the early 90s Quantum LPS or ELS, usually found in an LC. I've transplanted a few of those from battery leak LCs into SEs. The MiniScribe connector just won't fit...would love to know the size for that (also...

I wouldn't call it planned obsolescence as much as I'd call it cost cutting. It's the same reason there are cheap capacitors on a relatively expensive computer like an SE/30 or Iici. When you're looking to squeeze profits, you'll use the lowest cost component possible as long as it performs for...

Some insight here... The SE usually had a red LED when it shipped with the 20MB MiniScribe. I have seen the odd MiniScribe with the amber, but almost all seem to be red. Amber lights became more common in 1989 when the SE shipped with other drive capacities inside. The 40MB drive seemed to get...