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I should preface this by saying that I'm a beginner when it comes to trying to diagnose and fix compact Macs, but I'm learning. I did manage to fix an intermittent screen problem on my Mac SE by reflowing some joints on the analog board, for example. I have three Mac Plus units. One of them...

I don't intend to try and repair it, but I suppose I will keep it around for possible spare parts.

I ordered an Apple Monochrome Monitor to go with my new Apple IIe and it arrived completely destroyed. I got a full refund but it was disappointing to be sure.   

The internal SCSI2SD arrived today and it seems to be working perfectly, so I guess it was just the hard disk itself acting up. Since my SE/30 now has a transparent case, I'll be leaving the disconnected hard disk in there just for looks, and I have the SCSI2SD kind of resting on top of it...

Thanks, if there's a good chance it's just the drive acting up, I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and get an internal SCSI2SD for this machine.

The external version uses a different connector so I’m not sure how I would do that. Is there a converter or something? Sorry, I really don’t know a lot about SCSI.   I could possibly take a drive out of one of my other machines and try that. I think could still complain to the seller of the...

So after unplugging the internal hard disk everything seems to be working as I would expect. I am able to boot from the external SCSI2SD and I can also use a Floppy Emu at the same time. The boot floppy that caused the bomb error still does not work, but I make a copy of the System 7 Disk Tools...

I did some more experimentation and I only get the disk icon without the flashing question mark when I have the external SCSI2SD attached. I unplugged the hard drive cable and it seems to allow it to boot from the SCSI2SD every time, so I'm wondering if it's some kind of SCSI configuration...

It will attempt to boot from a floppy, but I get a bomb error when it gets to the desktop. But the only boot floppy I have on hand is one I've used with other machines, and it is for System 6.0.8. Is it normal for the floppy icon to be displayed without the flashing question mark? Like I said...

I recently bought a recapped Macintosh SE/30, and I don't understand the way it's been behaving. Sometimes it will boot to the hard disk and sometimes it will just show the floppy icon (sometimes with the flashing question mark and sometimes without). Sometimes I can get it to boot from an...

I bought a 2400c last year (which I mentioned in this thread a while back). I didn't use it much for the last few months, and when I went to try using it again I found that the backlight won't come on. You can still barely see that the screen is active so it appears to be functional, but...

I finally got a PowerMac G4 MDD to "complete" my collection of the major tower designs from the 9600 to the G5 (and cheese grater Mac Pro). It was "untested" so it was a bit of a gamble, but it turned out pretty well. Initially it wouldn't turn on because (I discovered) someone had removed the...

Well this thread took an unexpected turn

It's possible that prices were unusually low during the period when I was actively looking and now they have gone back to normal. Either way, I guess I'm glad I got most of the stuff I wanted at that point.

I started collecting PPC Macs in earnest just a few months ago, and one of the main reasons I decided to essentially go all out and get all of the ones I had wanted back in the day was that they were extremely cheap. But I’ve been following the prices since then and it seems like they have...

This was quite a necropost, but I’m kind of glad since the photos at the top of the post were pretty epic. I’m so glad these got saved

Since I've been restoring a lot of older Macs recently, I decided to have a compact Mac-themed birthday party. I brought along a couple of them for people to play around on, and we used the SE on the right to play a three-player game of Jeopardy, which was pretty fun. My sister made up some...

Most people selling these things on eBay seem to know almost nothing about them, so I think it's probably a bridge too far to ask a normal seller to open up the case of one of these computers. In the end, it's always a bit of a gamble. I've bought many computers sold as not working that turned...

Very nice. Getting a working Mac Portable is a long-term goal of mine, but it is kind of intimidating.

I'm thinking that the term dementia was not commonly known at this point or I can't believe that any company would name their product Dimensia. Then again, there is a mechanical keyboard called Dierya, so what do I know?