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Having two Macs is never a bad thing. They're very comparable, as everyone has said. You may want to pick up a pair of LocalTalk or PhoneNet boxes and play around with networking them. In terms of the Plus vs SE debate, don't forget the Classic is also comparable. Its advantages are RAM...

Glad to see this happening to my old CC!! 

Regarding screws: I have a no-CD LC 550 which has its original packing list. 2 screws are mentioned on there, but they're practically the only part missing. I had to put two of my spares on myself since the tabs are broken. Aside from that and some yellowing though, the computer is in immaculate...

It does indeed have the door! I also have a teardrop ADB mouse for it that's in perfect shape. The only real wear is on the yellowed keyboard, and the one from my dead 180c will more than likely replace it. Plus having the other 145 will be good in two other ways...I can sell another unit with...

Definitely! Thanks!! I watched the video on the screen recap and saw the difference it made on your screen in the old thread, so I'm confident I can revive this machine. I know it works otherwise...the hard drive spins up, pressing command-O opens whatever was on the desktop, and pressing shift...

Did you use a tool to remove them or just bare hands? I did dig up your old thread where you had new caps on the screen. If you don't mind, do you have the list of caps you ordered? I'd probably use tantalum caps myself; have them in my LC and it's been working great since I put them in.

How did you remove your caps? I'll have to look that video up. I did just look up the keyboard replacement procedure and found it; it looks easy and I could do that first. I can always find a display adapter and run it from the extra 13" monitor I have just to test it for functionality. This...

Awesome! Have you done the recap for the screen? If so, how tough was it? Mine just has a blank gray screen but the hard drive works. Playing with brightness and contrast don’t work unless you turn brightness all the way down, then it goes black/off.

It's a 145B in otherwise great shape aside from needing new caps for its screen.

Would a 180c Keyboard work? I have one I’m parting out.

What's the best way to clean a discolored PowerBook keyboard? Some of the keys are more brown than gray, not sure how that happened. I haven't tried my usual keyboard cleaner yet but I figure someone here probably has played around with this!

Somewhere I may still have a 2.7 CD if all else fails. I have no idea if I tossed it...I may have...but there's a chance it's in with a bunch of other CDs that I may be going through this week.

I'm curious if Claris CAD would have anything that would be able to do this. I'm not sure how high-end it was, but it always intrigued me when I saw it in the Claris catalogs. (At $800 it was a pipe dream, and even now, there's no way I'd spend $800 on a piece of software). Most of these names...

When the 900 was being developed, its internal codename was IIex. My guess is that it was a "fast, enhanced, extended Mac II" if you follow the naming logic. Given its size and position in the lineup, it's very reasonable to think of the IIfx as the starting point for the design. Interestingly...

It's very easy to swap between the II, III, and 475 boards. In fact, where I went to school, we swapped several of our IIs for IIIs just in board. (We also had to buy hard drives because we we bought the stripped-down LC II without them and the III, of course, requires 7.1). Speaking of...

You can always turn the button on the PSU by 90º to see if it was in the "always on" position. This was done as a failsafe on these machines in case they were used as servers and power was interrupted. Of course, it could just be a wonky PSU or even something on the board. I have a IIci with...

If you boot with an English OS 9 CD, you can install over the French version.

Nice work with this!  I have a Keyspan serial adapter sitting around...wonder what it would take to get an ImageWriter II going on Catalina? 

Classic II requires the later one 99% of the time, but I did once see a Classic II with the earlier connector. My guess is that it had been cobbled together out of an older analog board and CRT, probably from a donor Classic I. Every SE uses the older style CRT, which are super common. They're...

Regarding the C drive, I've seen some computers that have left it unnamed, but my IBM PS/1 shipped with a C drive called "MAIN FOLDER". Keep in mind the PS/1 was supposed to be the more user-friendly IBM, almost equal to the Performa line in a sense, so it could be they did that to help users...