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Ooo... just sent an email. I work in Ann Arbor. :)

Even better! :)

Keep in mind that in the SE, it will only function as an 800K drive... if I remember that's what your SE was, but at least it should tell you if the drive is working.

Dennis, to answer a couple of your questions, yes the drive is auto-inject, but it's not necessarily known working. It was working when it was pulled quite a while ago, but I did not test it again before letting Tempest borrow it. We were both attending the same event and I just grabbed it on my...

They were pretty popular in schools. I haven't looked for any recently, but schools were littered with them (and LC II's) in the 90's.

I've probably got a drive laying around my place that you could test it with.

On top of making noises, the floppy drive should should eject any disk that it can't boot from. So, just the fact that it's getting to a blinking "?" and NOT booting or ejecting the disc is a good sign that the drive could be bad. You could try plugging the floppy drive into the other socket on...

My guess is that it's not even getting to the point in the boot sequece where it tries to read from a floppy. Video would defintely help here. It seems to be past the ADB check since the keyboard is blinking. I'll check my book when I get home to verify what occurs between the ADB test and...

That was my thought at first, but if you read further down the page it mentions using a boot floppy to load an OS so the computer can recognize the option key if you can't boot from your HD.

Here's a bit of information I just found: Q: When I connect my display to my Spectrum card, instead of getting a usable picture, I get a distorted, scrambled image. I know the monitor is supposed to be compatible with this card -- what else do I have to do? A: SuperMac cards must be configured...

I wouldn't bother with the resister either. However, it shows a simple way to ground it with a screw driver and a wire with alligator clips at each end. And it shows you how to ground it. Nothing really elaborate about that... it's one of the simplest diagrams for discharging a CRT that I've seen.

Scroll down a bit on this page and it shows the best way to discharge the CRT: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html

Not sure how it would get that way... maybe it was never perfect from the factory? Maybe the yoke screw clamp has loosened after 20 years? I'm not sure that you can really adjust the physical tilt of the CRT. It's pretty much screwed in place. This sounds like a tilted screen image, which is...

None of the pots adjust the tilt of the monitor.

To adjust the tilt of the monitor you have to adjust the yoke on the back of the CRT. The adjustments section of the service manual explains how to do this: http://www.apple-collection.com/CarPos/classic_ii_performa_200.pdf

Don't think I've ever tried it, but I don't see why not. Plug in a set of headphones to the Audio Out port. If you get good sound through the headphones, then you just have a bad speaker or speaker connection to the motherboard.

On this page: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#WavyDisplay Check out the sections on "12. Too Bright Monitor with Horizontal Sweep Lines" and "14. Wavy Display, Swaying Back and Forth of the Image" The display doesn't look wavy, but the "Welcome to Macintosh" dialog box...

Looks like it could be a power supply issue. The lines are probably the brightness turned up too high. Also, for SimasiMac you are looking for the caps on the motherboard. The ones in your pics are of the power supply. This link shows you exactly what to look for...

It's always safest to discharge the monitor before working on a compact Mac. Though you *should* be able to remove and work on the logic board without messing with the CRT. Do so at your own risk.

http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#WavyDisplay Looks like SimasiMac to me. Take apart info is in the link also.