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In the sense of appearing on the desktop with a floppy disk icon, yes.

In a pinch, Snow Leopard still supports 1.44 megabyte USB floppy drives. Just thought I'd mention it.

DOT 3-type automobile brake fluid works good as a plastic-safe paint stripper. DOT 4 is silicone-based and doesn't work.

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale.

I hate to think that I GAVE AWAY the ideal 2nd iron for the task: A Weller micro soldering station. But I was moving and giving things away left and right, and I hadn't even used that thing in the 10+ years I had gotten it. And of course 18 months later, I've got a bunch of SMD projects. :-/...

I agree! I enjoyed the photo gallery too.

No collection would be complete without a 701c "butterfly" and perhaps the Z50 Workpad!

Not very well!! I wound up lifting the copper foil in a few places. It still works okay, but I'm going to try the Chipquik SMD removal kit on the next C2 motherboard and see if that makes things easier. The solder contained in that kit is a special alloy which remains molten at much lower...

Thanks! If I knew how to do a flawless job using just my regular soldering iron, I'd be all over it, but as it was, I thought I was lifting up too many of those foil traces, and wanted to do better than that. I've also been encountering more SMDs in the audio stuff I like to tinker with, and...

Unrestored Classic II motherboard with leaky capacitors: Getting ready to solder new capacitors (applying solder paste with a syringe). I made a mess of the foil trace for the + side of C3, and you might just barely be able to see that I've already mended it by soldering a tiny bit of wire in...

Some of those Asante devices aren't full-fledged Ethernet->Localtalk bridges, but rather, dedicated printer adapter devices. Easiest way to do what you want to do is to get a Farallon ethernet->serial or ethernet->scsi device. Cayman's Gatorbox may also be very desirable, but I've...

There could be a less-sinister explanation: Some recyclers were actually just shipping off old computers to poorer countries, and it was an environmental nightmare. And it sounds like Apple is now holding recyclers accountable. As for us collectors, who here has never, ever simply tossed...

Relax, I didn't actually buy an SMD rework station only to work on this Classic, I got other projects (involving SMD) going on too, and felt it was time for me to update my tools. I got two Classic IIs, and both have leaky capacitors, so what does that tell me about the stock parts :-/

The Classic II seems a bit more challenging than most, because there's one or two surface mount capacitors in pretty tight spots, and I wasn't able to get in there with conventional tools. So far, this is what I've spent on Classic-related items: Classic II, free + $20 shipping 850B SMD rework...

It's supposed to be in perfect working order, and that's got to be worth something.

I paid $1000 for an NEC external CDROM I-don't-know-how-many years ago. It probably came with Grolier's Encyclopedia, but I mostly remember a lame clip art collection. It broke not so many weeks or months later, and I think I immediately sold it's replacement, and bought Apple's first-gen...

Ah, probably nothing on that computer than a gynecologist hasn't seen countless times before. Speaking of which, I wonder how gynecologists get their kicks. Playing scrabble, maybe.

Just the normal crud that accumulates inside an older computer. These are my "before" pictures.

I don't know if they were just using crap parts at the time, but so far, ever Portable and every Classic II that I've encountered has had capacitor issues, and it's always those surface mount electrolytics. I recapped my Portable some time ago, and plan on going over the two Classic II...

Figuring that the stock 1400 charger is at least 35 watts, and that solar panel is maybe 5-7 watts under ideal conditions, tops, I'll stick to the "fashion statement" label. You can scarcely read a 1400's LCD in bright sun, anyhow.