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Flying toasters! :-) Nah, this was an eBay purchase. I think it came from California. While I appreciate the simple, quick beep of the early Mac models, I actually really liked the Quadra-era chord. I used to have a Quadra 605 back in the day.

As promised: Macintosh SE/30 full motherboard, 1991 Mac SE/30 repaired Now that the machine is all repaired, let me tell the little story of it. I purchased this SE/30 last September (2018) while on vacation in France so it was waiting for me at home when I arrived back. What makes this SE/30...

Option key on the ADB keyboard is same as Closed Apple on the IIe keyboard. Both Command Keys, which are Open Apple equivalent, should function identically.

You were correct! I'd shake your hand if I could, because that was the fix. I never thought to check the RAM SIMMs. This Mac SE/30 is now fixed! :-)

I will have one tomorrow for you. Thanks. I have another SE/30 which is working, so I will try swapping RAM from its board. Since posting this topic I used my soldering iron to touch up my replacement capacitors, since some of them looked like not-so-good solder jobs, but no change in behavior.

I have a Mac SE/30 which when I received it showed this on screen (full size image): (link above for full-size picture). There was no sound. I replaced all capacitors on the motherboard, and now I get a slow death chimes immediately on power-up, with no other obvious change. I washed the...

I went looking on Google image search on Monday and found one picture of the front of a platinum 512Ke, but not the back. Would like to see photos of the front and back of a platinum 512Ke.

Found this last night: 512e discontinued? Note the date is July 1987.

Citation needed. This smells like someone typing something because it sounds good and sounds like it could be true. It's possible that it's true with a caveat, such as in a foreign market, branded as the Macintosh ED or somesuch. Some investigation could determine whether there were ever...

Those technically weren't arrow keys, and instead Apple called them "field motion keys." They work in Microsoft Multiplan and probably other spreadsheet applications. See Inside Macintosh, volume 1, page I-36. By the way, the Macintosh can tell whether a keypress came from the main keyboard or...

It prevents dust and other particles from falling into the drive.

Leave the Mac on for about 4 or 5 hours and the sound should be louder. It's a failing capacitor problem, as many others here have said.

Correct. The arrow keys and some of the other keys which the Plus keyboard added are dependent on System file support. As long as you're using System file version 3.0 or later (1986), you should be fine. You can also copy the appropriate INIT resources from a newer System file into an older...

The MacBinary format does not have a CRC checksum. This explanation does not make sense. Do you not keep both data and resource fork in RAM? MacBinary is 3 parts: 128-byte header, followed by data fork, followed by resource fork. Surely writing these 3 parts in one combined operation is no...

I recommend using MacBinary format instead of AppleDouble, especially if you want to facilitate easy transfer to vintage Macintosh computers. Also, every version of OS X so far released under HFS, HFS+ and APFS supports resource forks. Consider using native filesystem support under OS X for...

There were two versions of this brochure. One was larger and printed on heavier paper, and it's the one that the OP has. A slightly smaller one with a slightly different layout was inserted in several leading news magazines, including Business Week and Newsweek. Both have the same content. I...

No, I mean the brown part that comes in contact with the disk drive's read/write heads. Just paint a single stripe of isopropyl alcohol on the top and bottom sides, and this will function reasonably well as a cleaning disk.

By the way, you can make any disk a cleaning disk. Take a disk that you don't value so much and use the cotton swab to brush on some isopropyl alcohol on both sides of the magnetic media. Just a single brush stroke per side with a saturated cotton tip will do.

TeleDisk is still a work in progress. I'm working on MacBinary encoding for sending single files. I had hoped to release TeleDisk in August, but now it'll be good if it comes out at all this year. :-/