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It will fit in any LCII or LCIII case. It won't fit, however, in an LC I case.

I actually saw one survive the mail last month on another forum. It was packed only in regular peanuts. Now, it's likely this shouldn't have made it, but it somehow did. The key is to not pack them too tightly and to use foam alone from what I've seen. I tried shipping a Color Classic with...

Having been around when these Macs were new, here are a few things I can tell you for certain: --Macs in the System 6 era used Macintosh HD as their internal hard drive name. The SE/30 on eBay right now provides proof of that, although I can also say with 100% certainty all Macs with internal...

Which model of Mac do you have? A stock LC or LC II (or any Performa with a number between 400-430) has 256K VRAM. I don't believe any of the Performa variants came with a 512K VRAM chip (and know for a fact the LC models didn't have it). You'll have to swap out the 256K VRAM chip for a 512K...

I believe this is an LC II originally based on the serial. All internals of the II, III, and 475 are swappable.

What was the serial, if any, of the Twiggy Macs? It's possible the keyboard could have been done far in advance.

Have you tried replacing the battery? I believe this is one of the models that won't boot without a known good one. I have a 4400 that acts similarly and haven't been able to source a replacement just yet.

Recap the board. Most Macs which lose their internal speaker do so because of this. Also, check the contacts of the speaker on the board at its connector. It's less of an issue with the 475 or other newer LCs (the contact pads do create problems sometimes on the original LC, which uses a...

If you get your SE up to 4MB and want to use a RAM disk, I'd advise RamDisk+ by Roger D. Bates. It's an old shareware utility, and you can actually switch it to be your startup disk so that the system is accessible from it. It will speed things up a little bit.  Even going to a Quantum ProDrive...

It could have been designed to have been always-on, and while I'm not familiar with that exact peripheral, I do have one without a power switch, a LaserWriter 4/600 PS, which was intentionally designed to be left on in low-power mode 24/7. However, given the age of the printer, I decided it...

Old versions of the system didn't have the Mac icon on the System Folder. As Dog Cow points out, MFS is one of the big reasons behind this. I believe it was sometime around 4.1 or 4.2 when the icon started to appear. If you run a later version of the System (like 6) and need to bless a System...

There's a third-party one on eBay right now, not sure if that would be acceptable here as a substitute:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-Macintosh-Plus-case-lock-tab/202891145332?hash=item2f3d413074:g:a9sAAOSwG5teMHfn

Are you referring to Kid Pix 2.1 or 1.2? I know I have 1.2 on most of the Macs that run Kid Pix and have yet to have an issue with the ImageWriter not printing in color. I do have a copy of Kid Pix 2 and could fool with it sometime to see if there's an issue there. Have you tried replacing...

Good call on always taking the Torx with you when you buy a Mac. I admittedly did the same with the SE/30 I bought today. I opened it up on the padded seat of my car so I could check for a leaked battery before I bought it. This isn't the first time I've done it, either...once brought the tools...

The only thing wrong with this is the mouse is a bit yellow. I’ve never done Retrobrite before but since I know I have a pristine mouse lost somewhere in my storage unit just in case, I think I found my first item to try with it!! Any tips for a first timer who lives in a city with a lot of...

Few things in life are perfect, but this SE/30 definitely is cosmetically. It does boot, but given the lack of sound, it’s going to get new caps before I use it. The hard drive is also bad, so I’m going to make this the ultimate dream machine, sticking a big ol’ 2 gigger in there and finding...

From my own experiences: System 6 goes to 1920. System 7 goes to 1920. I don't have anything with OS 8 up right now (anyone want to recap my PowerBook 190?) OS 9 does work. The SetDate control panel is a good option for going into 2020 and beyond. I ran it on a 7.1 LC and a 6.0.8 SE and...

Honestly, it's a good question, as I dropped that card off at the recycler. It just didn't seem like a big deal for my particular Iici. Anyone have experience with recapping a busted cap on a Iici card, as in one that went during use?

I'd go for it. At worst, you get some good parts.

The "squirrel cage", also termed the "rat cage" by some, was phased out in early 1988. The noise wasn't the principal complaint, however. Many felt the fan was responsible for screen interference; this could have also been the result of the horizontal-facing video board (which isn't recommended...