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Dumb question, but have you tried pulling the drive and cleaning/lubing it? So many problems fixed that way. If that doesn't work, I will dig through my pile of 800K drives to find some part numbers. They are definitely not as hard to source as the 400K ones (admittedly, less common than the...

The more I look at it, the more jealous I get. Definitely a nice haul for $40, no matter what you find in it.  (There is a special joy in digging through the surprise boxes of life. Hope you find some nice surprises!)

Very cool! How did you pick this up? Craigslist lot, garage sale, word of mouth? Hope you get some fun stuff out of the lot.

The next Compact frontier: before I start testing my million and one unknown analog boards, I have a Mac 512K board with a MacSnap upgrade that needs diagnosis. This came out of a (labeled) 512Ke machine that I know was not working when I disassembled it many years ago, but the fault might have...

Thanks! RAM and (socketed) ROM will be removed accordingly. Good news: I discovered while continuing to test that one of my 512Ke machines is fully working. (I don't know why I didn't remember this? I think I set the 512Ke aside in disappointment when I discovered it was not an original 512K -...

Oh yeah, that hurts. I don't want to think about how much I spent on ebay re-acquiring a set of early 90s BMUG newsletters after I gave mine away (or possibly threw them in the trash *shudder*) before a cross country move that was priced by weight. At least I have them all back now (plus several...

A follow up question: if I want to put my old, dusty, not-sure-if-they-work-or-not boards through the dishwasher (no soap), is there anything I need to remove first for safety?

I am embarking on a long project. I have been trying to take stock of my inventory, and it appears that I have an even dozen of Compact machines, ranging from 128K to a mystic Color Classic.  The goal is to get at least one model of each generation working. I am now able to declare the 128K...

Late response, but - OMG thank you! I have been searching for a list of Mac 128/512/Plus analog board replacement parts. I don't know if all the part numbers on DigiKey will still be the same but this is a fantastic start.

Nice zip find! I agree Zip drives can be had for a reasonable price if you stalk but $25 is an exceptionally good price for that lot. I’ve never even seen a case before. 

That is SUPER cheap in terms of fees. Your standard proxy services will often charge something like 50% over the original price of the item by the time all is said and done. You found a good guy! Haha, doujinshi are fan-created manga (think fanfic, only graphic style). Totally different medium...

Damn, those are some cheap fees (granted I don't know what the proxy commission was). And shipping, too! How close to Japan are you? (I am used to ordering doujinshi from Japan to the US. How to go broke in one easy lessson.)

I should look up the pictures of my old Classic (they are on the forum somewhere). Makes this board look like child's play - I almost wonder if I could get it back to working. (I doubt it, but hope springs eternal. I have to practie soldering anyway right?) You have no chance to survive make...

On a different topic: this is more of a pyrrhic victory than a conquest, but: reporting in on my latest dead SE/30. I was alerted by this thread to a cheap auction for a non working SE/30: I ended up getting it for $90 including shipping which was a bit more than I hoped to get away with...

MO should stand for magneto-optical, which is an old type of tape/disk backup (I think MO disks did look a bit like floppy disks). Kind of like a zip drive but different media, only used for backup AFAIK. Won't be much use to you unless you can get your hands on some MO tapes (disks?). I have no...

This topic came up in a thread that started as a conquest two years ago (I was crowing about finding a 128K mac in good shape that I was having trouble starting from the floppy drive) and turned into a longish thread on floppy drive compatibility. As I just posted in an update to that thread, I...

Further good news and bad news: Good: As reported in this thread (linked above), an 800K external drive can be used to boot a 128K. I tried it with the 800K drive that works with both my IIsi and my 512K - no problems. The good is, apart from the incompatible internal floppy drive, this can now...

ETA Too: I may have an answer! @BadGoldEagle pointed me in the right direction before but I missed it. The internal floppy motor has the square sticker, not the round one. It may be incompatible with the Version A ROMs. I wonder how that happened, though? The floppy mechanism actually has a...

ETA: The FloppyEmu works now! I have no idea why it didn't before (as noted above, two years ago I couldn't even get it to load). I was able to successfully start the machine with two different early System disks on the FEmu. Once started up, the computer can read the problem floppy disks I was...

I am reviving this old thread of mine (long time no see, thread!) because I got this 128K out of storage and started playing with it again. For a brief moment I thought I had a success story. I took out the old floppy drive (which was completely seized and wouldn't take disks, let alone eject...