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If you are using a PC make sure it's a 1.44mb sized image you write to the disk. 800/400k images won't work from a PC because of the special format those size disks use. As long as you stick to the 1.44mb images, you can write an image to a disk if you use something like HFVExplorer or Transmac...

Yeah. Some of the horizontal desktop machines are ok with me. But I definitely have a preference for the LCs for that category of desktops. Besides the all-in-one Macintoshes, The LC "pizza box" machines have sentimental value to me because the elementary school I went to used them in their...

Quadra looks nice. But I'm personally not a fan of any of the vintage tower macs. They look too much like PCs to me. Sorta ruins the feel for me. :p

Ahh so that's what's going on. I had assumed he had already booted into MacOS. I think he was at the Flashing Floppy icon. Now the instant eject makes sense. Yeah try what technight has suggested. If the Mac was at the floppy icon asking for a boot disk, it decides pretty quick your floppy...

Wow that drive looks bad. Looks like you could almost take the platter out and use it as a vinyl for a DJ. :p With scratches that bad, I'd be surprised if the head hadn't been ripped clean off by now. I think my drive may have had a head-crash too since my mac won't read it. (Diagnosing the...

I recently read about the 580 on wikipedia: "Lastly, the Trinitron display of the 575 was replaced with a cheaper shadow mask screen, causing a slight change in the plastic case surrounding the CRT" From that quote I'm led to believe you might have problems getting a Trinitron CRT to mount...

There isn't a real need to emulate an external SCSI drive. Just take a SCSI2SD and put it in an enclosure. I'm sure that's pretty much the same thing. :p But I suppose you could chop off the jack off a old printer cable and create a simple adapter for it if you want the drive to hang off the...

Ouch. I've heard UPS can be pretty rough. But my Macintosh SE arrived to me in one piece. Maybe I just have one of the better UPS drivers in my town? :p It all comes down to how well the seller packs it I would guess. :p

Eww. I don't like how that screen's adjusted. You should fix that ASAP. :p For the compacts, I prefer how the factory had them set. A bit of a gap on the sides with a slightly bigger gap on the top/bottom. Looks like someone went out of their way to stretch out the screen. I'd imagine the...

Yep that's the exact model. Although this one is a bit peculier. It has a black face plate on the front with LED. (so there is no connector to attach the SE's LED cord to. :( ). It looks like this particular drive was meant to be in a server rack of some kind perhaps. Odd that it found it's...

Ok. I've removed the drive and took a closer look at it. I've disconnected the circuit board and noticed something: There is some "debris" near the center axle area that contacts a copper fin on the circuit board. Here's a photo of the underside of the circuit board: And here's a photo of...

Ok once I get a replacement drive, what would I have to do to try and recover data of this drive? I've heard of the freezer trick and also manually moving the head if it gets stuck in the park position. But my drive isn't really doing any "click of death" noises. It does some clicks on spin up...

I'm no electrician, but I would have to say that solder joint on C6 looks suspicious (I assume that to be some kind of diode. But I'm probably wrong. :p ). The solder pad on the + marker looks fine. I'm talking about the one opposite of that. Visually speaking that's really the only thing I...

Yeah I definitely understand that. I recall Windows machines grew up on the days of MS-DOS and other command line based OSs. So keyboard control was important and retained even in more modern operating systems. The Macintosh emphasized a mouse driven GUI environment that is simpliar and easily...

Cool. If I don't find something like that locally, that would certainly be where I get it now. :D My Macintosh SE is only slightly yellowed. (and the fluorescent light in my bedroom makes it appear a bit more yellow then it really is) So I would think mine would likely not "re-yellow" after a...

Is there anything similar to Mouse Keys for MacOS 7? I need to see if I can use the keyboard to control the mouse cursor since I don't have a mouse. :(

Ok I ran Lido anyway. It starts up and scans the bus. But once it reaches id 0, the hard-drive shows a bit of activity but after about 10 seconds this error comes up: "OSErr = 5 Bad SCSI Command: phase error." I click ok and it will then show the device on id 0 and reports the correct capacity...

Is Lido keyboard friendly? EDIT: I ran it in Basilisk. Doesn't appear I can do anything with this program without a mouse. I wonder if there's some simple app/extension that can assign keys on the keyboard to mouse actions. I could then use the keyboard to move the mouse. Would be a decent...

Sorry for all the double posts, But the forum's time limit on editing posts is too short. :( I've gotten a patched version of Apple HD Setup. Started that and it says it can't find a suitable drive. So even the patched version won't initialize it. Since it shows up on SCSI Probe, it isn't a...

Ok the drive shows up on SCSI Probe. Could be it's not formatted correctly. I will try and find a patched or third party HD setup program. The stock Apple HD Setup app doesn't see it. Probably because it may not be an Apple branded drive. Since SCSI Probe sees it, that rules out connection...