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On ci #1 and cx #3, the cards closest to the power supply are ethernet cards rather than video cards.  The 15 pin connector there is an AUI connector ci #2 might get better results if you pull that single ram simm out of the bank. edit:  You may be able to find documentation on your video...

For FDHD you need to move the roms *and* the SWIM chip

I like using the name "All Mankind" with "All Around the World" as the organization.  It adds just a little happiness to my day to have the splash screen announce that "This program is registered to  All Mankind All Around the World" Even if it is 25 year old software.

You must be living right! Congratulations

The Dead Mac Scrolls, which is available out there on the 'tubes as a PDF, shows pictures of common faults and their repairs for the Plus and SE.  It's a great resource. https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pdf/The_Dead_Mac_Scrolls_1992.pdf

Ha!  I was looking at that ad an hour ago.  I wasn't too interested in the 7200, but hmmm that monitor and keyboard... Congratulations, looks like a nice score!

Wow, I'm really surprised that any USB drive could write 800K disks.  Good to know.

Hope it didn't kill the cache card or the logic board!

If you have a dvd burner, you can download a disk image from Macintosh Garden and burn a copy.  They have images of the retail disk and might have an image of the original disk for your iMac/PowerMac G5.

Maybe the gear was designed to be the first to break as sort of a "fuse"; if too much torque was applied or if something else went wrong, that particular gear would give way and spare all the other gears.  I'm probably giving too much benefit of the doubt or credit for being far-sighted but who...

I'm guessing you may be trying to install from the installer disk for another computer, maybe a PowerMac G5 or a Mac Mini or something.  You're going to want a retail Leopard disk.  I understand there are ways of modifying an image of your disk to allow it to install but it's easier to just get...

There's no network multiplayer game that I've played more than Marathon (and Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity) It is a first-person shooter and may or may not be appropriate to your nephew's ages.

I took a look through some of my old Apple users guides.  I didn't scour them, but here is what I found: In my copy of "Macintosh II Owner's Guide" copyright 1988 one screenshot shows "Hard Disk" but that seems to be all.  In my "Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0" copyright...

I would guess that your monitor is desperately out of adjustment; it looks like the electron guns are far out of alignment.  I don't recall off the top of my head, but it seems like they are adjusted on the neck of the crt which is really difficult.  It might adjust by way of pots on the inside...

Very neat.  I love the old AlphaSmarts. Fun YouTube series.

You'll have to let us know what the secret sauce was. It's funny, I had been reading through this nearly year-old thread just as you posted.

I wish I could, but count me among the dummies.  Sorry.

Here's a link to a project to hook up an adb or ps/2 keyboard to a plus: http://synack.net/~bbraun/mackbd/ And some discussion: 

It's probably worth looking at the drive.  All the (former) lubricants are probably now more like glue.

I wouldn't be at all confident that a proper high-density floppy drive upgrade has been performed with proper ROMs and SWIM chip.  Seems more likely that it's a frankenmac assembled from whatever was lying around. But maybe I'm just cynical.