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Seems like that printer had the print nozzles in the cartridge.  Make sure the contacts on the printer and on the cartridge are clean. Are these New-new cartridges or are they New old stock?  Not sure how well old stock would do; ink could have dried up or even just thickened enough to not flow.

The Dead Mac Scrolls lists two different chips in the keyboard that can be killed by using a telephone cord.

CharlieFrown, I think this is a good spot to mention the modified mice you are selling that are suitable for use with a Mac 512k.  OP may have missed that post.

I use a cupcake pan (or two) to help keep track of screws.  Helps make it slightly less painful.

The usb floppy drive will neither read nor write 800k floppies

The Macintosh 12" RGB monitor M1296 was a popular choice for LC owners at the time because it was cheap and it was the same width as the LC and looked nice perched on top. They're cute, and they can be tough to come by anymore because everybody hated them at the time but wants one now.   The...

Can't tell by the photo whether you've already done it, but get the battery out of there.  They're a ticking time bomb.

Goo-Gone is pretty agressive; Goof-Off is gentler and still does a good job. For a G4 cube I'd test it first though.

I've been looking at a Microdrive IIgs, which plugs into a slot and uses a CF card as a hard drive.  $115, which doesn't seem too bad.  You can also change out the firmware ROM and use it in a IIe too...

Doesn't look like any Apple printer I've ever seen (and I think I've seen virtually all of them)

You can use a standard mac printer cable to connect the printer ports of the 475 and the 6116 and use it as an AppleTalk network connection.  Really slick little trick that many are unaware of.

Use a usb to serial adapter and remote in to OSX terminal with it... Super cool looking though.

If I recall correctly they all had the grey plastic inner case.  Most of the imacs I've seen lately have at least a few cracks there, some catastrophic others minor.  My flower power has a few cracks too. Good luck with that!  What a great computer!

One of the Color Stylewriters would probably be a good bet.  They were decent printers as I recall, and they used a Canon inkjet cartridge so if any ancient ink cartridges are available these should be. Some of the old HP Deskjet printers would probably be good too, but I think you'd have to be...

That's a very nice resource for system software versions and enablers.  I just wish it would print up better; I'm saving it as a pdf for future reference. Thanks!

Ok, I looked and these are the pages that I was thinking about: http://www.jagshouse.com/zipMacPlus.html http://www.vintagemacworld.com/pluszip.html There are probably others out there.

Should work, but be careful about zip disks and the Plus.  Seems like the Plus can use the Zip, but only with an older version (they're all old of course) of the Zip software/driver.  The challenge is that the newer driver will install itself over the older one just by inserting a disk. Google...

There were several different etherwave adapters, one for AAUI ethernet, one for AUI, one to hook up to the computer's localtalk serial port and thence to ethernet, one to hook one printer to ethernet via localtalk, another to hook several printers and computers to ethernet via localtalk.  You...

I think I have a functioning Q700; may be willing to trade for some of your awesome projects... I have no idea what they're going for on ebay lately.

I know with the pictured keyboard I would be hitting the PageUp key instead of or in addition to the Enter key something like 75% of the time.  Right shift looks tiny too.  Nothing one couldn't get used to though I guess.