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I have done that successfully once before, but some people were saying elsewhere that there might be less drastic things that could be tried first. 

I finally received the second machine today. It's an SE with a Radius 16 accelerator. The only reason it was on my radar at all was that the seller had posted a photo of it starting up with the Radius badge, as you can see below. (I am unable to upload images to this forum now, and they don't...

I just wasn’t expecting that. I guess I lucked out. 

Small update: The battery on the new Pismo lasted almost exactly 4 hours of light use with the screen on constantly. I did use an SD adapter instead of a hard disk, so that probably helped, but it's still very impressive.

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but this is how I was finally able to install Classic on my PowerMac G5 despite not having the original disks. Everything else I tried failed. https://sites.google.com/site/nickjuly4/enablemacos9classic

I've been going a little crazy buying old computers lately, so I thought I would write about a few of them here. I've already talked about my Macintosh Plus with an accelerator board installed that I got for about $80 + shipping, and that one has worked out pretty well now that I've figured out...

eBay tried to enter Japan a while back and failed. Yahoo Auctions is the most common auction site. Here is a link to the 68k desktop section. It's difficult to search for text because some people will list things in Japanese and others will use English, etc.

The problem with using auction listings to try and figure out sales is that there are too many other factors at play. I'm sure the number of 128k Macintoshes on eBay is skewed by the fact that they are worth a fair amount, which incentivizes people to go to the trouble of getting them out of...

By the way, I was amazed that one of the batteries actually holds a pretty decent charge (it was an original Apple battery and not a replacement). I think it quit after a little more than an hour and a half of actual use, which isn't too bad at all. The main thing I care about with these older...

The seller I bought the second upgraded machine from was taking their sweet time shipping it and never gave me a tracking number, and now I've been told that they accidentally shipped it to a location 2,000 miles away from me. Supposedly they will be shipping it straight from there to me rather...

My first PowerBook was a Lombard PowerBook G3, which I replaced not long afterward with a Pismo. That one I used for quite a while, even upgrading it to a G4 back when such things were possible. I never owned a Titanium PowerBook because I liked my Pismo so much, and I didn't really have the...

This is interesting, although even if we knew exact sales figures, it might be hard to gauge how that affects rarity today. A lot of people no doubt kept them even if they weren't used or didn't work because they are cute and iconic looking, while more plain PCs probably would have been tossed...

Thanks, I haven't had the time or motivation to revisit this one yet but I will.

I’m way over my head in this thread but I did recently get my first 400k drive in a bundle with an original Macintosh (upgraded to 512k). The seller claimed everything was working, but it was obvious that the grease in the drive had turned to glue and it wouldn’t even accept a disk. I did get a...

The original Gameboy is infamous for problems similar to this, but it is relatively easy to fix with a soldering iron. I wonder if the problem here is a similar one. Of course I wouldn't recommend blindly trying something like this, especially since the portable has an active matrix screen as...

Nice job on the cleaning, and that was quite a deal! Amazing how a lot of these machines can get so dirty though.

Dang, that would be disappointing. Any pictures? Short of finding another using in better condition and swapping parts out, I'm not sure if there are any practical ways to fix something like that.

I tried again, and you're right -- it will work without the extra power supply. I guess I got confused when I was trying various combinations of settings. That's good, since it's one less thing to worry about. The Gemstart 3.0 readme says that it is compatible with all versions of system 7 that...

Finally managed to get System 7.1 installed. As I mentioned, Floppy Emu seems to have issues with this machine, so I had to use another Mac that was able to use both the SCSI2SD and Floppy Emu at the same time in order to install it, but it seems to be working fine with Gemstart 3.0, and it's a...

Turns out the package I thought was going to be the second system was something else, so I guess we’ll have to wait a bit longer.  By the way, I tried a number of different combinations of settings so it’s possible I’m misremembering, but I think I still had to use the special SCSI2SD settings...