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@maceffects, if you need a guarantee for someone who will buy a ton of ribbons, look no further. If all the kids decide to use Kid Pix when I have the lab set up, I can plow through one or two a month. (It also teaches patience when this happens...remember the "Waiting for AppleTalk ImageWriter"...

Regarding 13 vs 14 inches...that actually comes about because of how Apple used to measure monitors. The 13" and 14" Apple Trinitron displays are the same size. The reason? When the Hi-Res Display first came out, Apple measured by how much was actually viewable, assuming the height and width...

Could Ultrasonic work on a StyleWriter I? I've got one that won't print from any cartridge.

Great video!! If I'm going to work on a Plus or earlier and need to work with the CRT, I prefer to leave things unplugged for two weeks. In addition to keeping the Mac off, I'll actually unplug it. This should get rid of almost any buildup in there, but to err on the side of caution, discharge...

The font in question is Athens.

We had one fail at our school back when the wedge mouse was the current model. The switch was stuck in the down position. The Mac Classic it was on wound up rejecting every single disk--until the mouse was disconnected!!

Try DazzleDraw for a drawing program. 

Here's a video of an ED with the platinum case. It's not quite the 512Ke you're looking for, but it's the right color and has the 512Ke badge (though this one is sort of yellowed).

Most sources I have read have pinned the discontinuation date of the 512Ke as September 3, 1987. It could be possible it was pulled from production in the United States at an earlier time (summer 1987) but never officially discontinued.  The platinum 512Ke is for real. It looks like the Plus...

Do you know if this Mac has been re-capped? If it hasn't, that's your first step. Every capacitor on the logic board should be replaced.

Would the same trace also be responsible for a IIci that wants to stay on all the time? I had mine re-capped eight years ago and it's had this issue since (otherwise, it works like a charm). If I plug it in, it comes on. If I turn it off, it comes back on a few seconds later. The switch isn't...

Yes, the LED on the outside of the case. 

I have a ton of old ProDrives which I am using in my various Macs. (Yes, I'm a purist and will use these hard drives as long as I am able to maintain them). I keep them in working condition, but have one minor issue with the LEDs... The plug for the access LED is a smaller size on the newer...

If your hard drive isn't getting powered, it's almost certainly a power supply issue. I had an LC that was going through this same process and a re-capped power supply solved the problem. I had another LC on which the hard drive wouldn't even power up sometimes. Again, a new power supply solved...

The tubes are the same, but the connectors may vary. A Plus CRT will work. Not all Classics will. There's a thread on this forum about compact Mac CRTs--read it over to see the difference between the A and B connectors on the Classic. All Pluses and SE models (both regular and /30) have the...

Try Silverlining. I've ben able to use it for all of my non-Apple disks.

Chances are good it was proprietary, albeit given to three manufacturers of the PSU. I believe Apple designed it alongside TDK, at least from what I recall of early notes on the LC. I'd say about 90% of LCs have TDK PSUs. The other 10% were made by Astec and Delta. Delta PSUs are easy to spot...

A roll call on here may or may not be accurate. Again, we have our preferences, and there are probably a disproportionate amount of SE/30s and CCs compared to the real world. I've actually flipped three CCs and four SE/30s in the past fifteen years. All have sold at a profit and sold rather...

Having entered the Apple world when compacts were still being sold, I can offer some insight, but no set figures. We know about how many 128K/512K are out there given when the million mark was hit. The 512K was produced thereafter for a short time as the 512Ke (which really began in 1986) and...

I have nine LC and LC II machines and all work without a PRAM battery.