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i have a pile of computers to recap... so practicing on not retro computes first before i feel comfortable enough to do such an operation on my own....

Picked up the performa 550  EvilCapitalist linked to in the ebay thread. I live near by so i was able to pick it up without having it shipped. Works great and not too dirty. Still had HDD with games like spectre and a non-working mario teaches typing. weird ram at 5MB. 4 on board, 1 in slot...

i don't know. both sound great to me. internal might just sound different because its in a bigger enclosure? (the mac)

Why not try? do a test run. also, its aif. why does it matter? you can always just manually open it in whatever program on the se/30 you are using it with anyways.

Yep thats it. i purchased these  YMMV but its working for me.

Yeah i just fixed three drives with that same problem. All with broken teeth on that one gear. its easy to pull out the eject motor and open it up and check. Its pretty obvious if thats the problem.. Somebody on ebay sells replacement 3D printed gears. otherwise, could just need a good...

Have you ever figured this out? I'm having similar problems with a TAM. and starting to wonder if its the motherboard (or power supply?)

Nice find! i never find anything good at my goodwills....

Yeah, i open toaster macs and am careful with the high voltage. Thing i need to learn / get good at first is recapping tho.

the Craigslist ad was something like "Room full of macs to many to list" or some such. I do have some mice for older macs and even some that came with a apple ii card. So one of them will probably work? I looked closer. looks like one has a scsi card and a hard drive. Thats neat? Now if only...

Got two of these recently through craigslist. Haven't had time to look over them yet. both have pretty dim screens. But do power and beep. Have the keyboards that go with them. But couldn't find the mice for them. No software or anything. I'm pretty excited. I have been looking for 1 ...

Nice find. that model is what i grew up on. I have many fond memories playing falcon on that computer.

I've been meaning to post for awhile. I recently got the itch for retro computers. I started with 2 computers..and now i have a number that my wife is convinced I'm having  a mid life crises. back in the mid 90's i got a Quadra 700 I got from newspaper ad. I traded a messagepad for it. (i...