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As far as I can tell, my new Apple /// does not have the clock upgrade kit installed. There is no AA battery pack under the hood. The kits are on eBay now for only $10 bucks. Should I go for it? Is it a nice to have, or is there a fundamental reason why someone would need to swap out the clock...

So you're saying that an Apple /// disk image written out to a floppy on an Apple II isn't readable by an Apple ///? Why is that? You'd think an image written out to a floppy would be readable by the machine it's designed for, not by the machine that wrote the disk. Hum, you might be on to...

Again, I think you're under the impression I'm trying to run Apple II software on an Apple ///. I am not. I am trying to write an Apple /// disk image using ADT Pro on either my IIe or my ///. I tried to use ADT Pro to boostrap my Apple ///. That didn't seem to work. I then sent an Apple ///...

I wasn't trying to run IIe disks. The images I made on the IIe are Apple /// disks.

That's what I tried, per the screenshot. That's bootstrapping it with SOS from ADTPro 1.2.9. The images I made on the IIe are Apple /// SOS disks. I get the inverse-video "HI" on screen, so it should be good to go. The laptop seems to go through the motions of sending over SOS, but nothing...

I'm very pleased to announce that I scored a very nice looking Apple /// with a Monitor ///. Everything seems to be OK, but I just can't seem to transfer images to it via ADT Pro, or read disks made from my IIe. DSC_0001.jpg I tried to bootstrap it. Although it says "HI" in the corner and my...

I regularly buy NOS 800K floppies by the 50's on eBay and they're always good. They seem to last forever as long as they were stored correctly. (Not too hot, not too cold.) My Dad gave me a stack of 300 floppies he'd had in the garage for 20 years and half of them failed on format.

That's exactly what I have planned. I'm going to max the RAM and install the NIC from the other SE. The other SE will then go to the shelf as a backup. The other SE's case is in lousy shape too. It was the 2nd machine I ever attempter to retr0brite. I ended up scorching the plastic in some...

My Dad used to order whatever he wanted for work. They paid for it, but it was his to keep. (The crazy 80s right? Companies used to spend money like it was water). Anyway, he had a 512 and a Plus. We don't know what happened to the 512. The Plus did come home when he bought the SE. I used the...

As far as I know, only a 520, 550, or 575 will work. Anyone know differently? I'd like to know too since my CC needs a new board.

My Dad picked up an SE when they were new. He used it for years, but when work went PC-only, the SE sort of slipped out of usage and at some point ended up in the garage. My parents moved to the West coast in 2000. (I live on the East coast.) So I thought that I'd never see that SE again. My...

Good luck. I think at month's end you're going to have a lot of caching up to do. All the stuff you couldn't do on the 68K machine. Either that, or you'll find yourself defaulting to your phone for the majority of the stuff. I've seen these challenges before. I think it would be more of a...

Awesome work. You should write a book. Or put it out in iBooks format. I'd give you a buck for it.

Nice. Always love the SE, it's my default go-to Classic Mac. Such a little workhorse. I use mine almost daily. So expandable.

Wait, so the drive running the OS was connected to the card you were flashing? What made you think that would work? That's like trying to put a new engine in your car while you're still driving it.

I lost pads on 2 out of 2 recaps. One with a soldering iron, one with a hot air rework station. I guess I need more practice.

Hum...magnetic interference from a hard drive? Wouldn't that be worse for the hard drive as opposed to the monitor? If there was some sort of interference, you'd think the hard drive would throw read/write errors like crazy.

What do you mean, are you using these to break the caps off? That's a good way to take the pads with them. You should use a hot air rework station.

I did a tear down years ago.... Lots of pictures: http://appletothecore.me/files/mac_se_restoration.php

I thought this was going to be something like, "people laugh at me when I wear green pants, a red shirt, and blue socks". Sorry. But seriously, your browser, your website? What are the specifics?