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So, next step was getting the floppydrive back to life. As to be expected, all the grease from the metal moving parts was completely gummed up, even the grease on the plastic gears from the eject motor was totally hardened out. Took apart what needed to be taken apart to get to the moving parts...

Oh, noise wise I prefer the Miniscribe over the Widget :cool: Just with that noise alone you can visualize the movement of the head!

Don't you tell me! The rollers disintegrated into small orange bits, and some of the pieces fell onto the floor while handling the unit, without me noticing until I stepped in them. Bloody sticky gluey stuff it is 😤 Luckily it's a tiled floor, but still took me a bunch of IPA to clean the floor...

Eventhough mine is working, I too am looking around for a replacement, as sooner or later the widget will eventually fail. In below post, and the one right after you'll see some reccomondations I got over here for a replacement...

Complete spin-up of my widget, till the brake releases at the end with the typical click sound.

Oooh, that does not sound very good. Almost like a mechanical issue, like shot bearings! My (working) widget is out of my Lisa, so could quickly do a video like yours, and on mine the rotation is totally silent. If on yours the alignment of the axle gets out of whack due to worn out bearing...

So, now I gotta find one of those spiral cords for the keyboard (after I properly clean and disinfect it), and see if that one is good... Also need to find me some DC2000 QIC mini-cartridges and see if the tape back-up can be brought to life... Also rummage tthrough my memory simm's, should...

After opening them up for a quick inspection, looking for out of whack stuff, everything looked surprisingly clean (compared to the outside of the machines) so decided to have a go with them. The first one doesn't do anything at all, no noise, beep, totally zilch. Bummer... Next one, looks more...

just picked up 2 Mac Plus machines, with some accesories: Mac Plus 1 Mac Plus 2 Micronet SC20 external hard diks Apple Tape Back Up 40SC (M2640) Filthy as sh*t keyboard. Gambled a bit, there were no cables at all, so totally untested, paid 200€ for the lot (Plusses are normally easily repaird...

Welcome to the world of discovery into vintage Macintosh computing! It can be a bit daunting at first with their incompatible with anyting else floppies, making you find alternative ways of moving stuff from the modern world to your vintage machine. I find the external DB25 SCSI SD card...

I would refrase that to "they usually don't kill themselves", unlike many other compact macs :ROFLMAO:

An SE should indeed run 6.08! Or 7.01 at the most, anything higher will make it rather sluggish, especially when running of the original harddrive!

In my opinion: Get the batteries out asap. The Varta's have a lower chance of leaking/exploding compared to the Maxel's, but best not to take the risk. Machine runs fine without battery, it's mainly the clock which loses the setting, and if I'm not mistaken you also lose the settings in the...

Next one to attack is the floppy drive, see if we can get that one cleaned and greased up. Then I'm at the point of a very tourough cleaning reassembly, getting the display squared out a bit better, replave the lightbulb in the softpower switch, bunch of smaller things really. Next step after...

Slowly, but steady.. Project "keyboard" completed!

True that, bet no engineer ever said "let's make sure that they'll still be working perfectly in 40 odd years time" :ROFLMAO:

I'll let you know when mine is restored! But truth be told, there are several keyboard technologies or production runs which turned out not so good regarding longevity. I'm also restoring a TRS80-model III, uses a keyboard with the rubber domes, and also is a disaster with about a third of the...

Might be just early technology, the keyboard brands using those foam pads (BTC, keytronic) moved over to the rubber dome type keyboard. The mechanical ones likey were a fair bit more expensive!

Not just Apple! Keyboards with those foam pads were used by several brands, Compaq Portable, IBM PCjr, some Wang machines and many more.

I hope foto 3 (the component side of the logic board) was before the IPA cleaning? I usually flush with demineralized water, cause the IPA always leaves those blotchy white traces. Just be very carefull everything is properly dry before powering up, unlike IPA water just doesn't evaporate that...