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If you swapped anything, be sure you swapped model for model. There are two revisions to this monitor, which involve a 100V difference.

SetDate is a lifesaver and is currently on or will be on all of my classic Macs.  When I was still running my lab, pre-pandemic, I hadn't yet deployed SetDate to all of the machines. It will be something I do this summer when I do my annual maintenance on them. If you want days of the week to...

The connector in particular I'm looking for is the one that fits the half-height style...the early 90s Quantum LPS or ELS, usually found in an LC. I've transplanted a few of those from battery leak LCs into SEs. The MiniScribe connector just won't fit...would love to know the size for that (also...

I wouldn't call it planned obsolescence as much as I'd call it cost cutting. It's the same reason there are cheap capacitors on a relatively expensive computer like an SE/30 or Iici. When you're looking to squeeze profits, you'll use the lowest cost component possible as long as it performs for...

Some insight here... The SE usually had a red LED when it shipped with the 20MB MiniScribe. I have seen the odd MiniScribe with the amber, but almost all seem to be red. Amber lights became more common in 1989 when the SE shipped with other drive capacities inside. The 40MB drive seemed to get...

It will fit in any LCII or LCIII case. It won't fit, however, in an LC I case.

I actually saw one survive the mail last month on another forum. It was packed only in regular peanuts. Now, it's likely this shouldn't have made it, but it somehow did. The key is to not pack them too tightly and to use foam alone from what I've seen. I tried shipping a Color Classic with...

Having been around when these Macs were new, here are a few things I can tell you for certain: --Macs in the System 6 era used Macintosh HD as their internal hard drive name. The SE/30 on eBay right now provides proof of that, although I can also say with 100% certainty all Macs with internal...

Which model of Mac do you have? A stock LC or LC II (or any Performa with a number between 400-430) has 256K VRAM. I don't believe any of the Performa variants came with a 512K VRAM chip (and know for a fact the LC models didn't have it). You'll have to swap out the 256K VRAM chip for a 512K...

I believe this is an LC II originally based on the serial. All internals of the II, III, and 475 are swappable.

What was the serial, if any, of the Twiggy Macs? It's possible the keyboard could have been done far in advance.

Have you tried replacing the battery? I believe this is one of the models that won't boot without a known good one. I have a 4400 that acts similarly and haven't been able to source a replacement just yet.

Recap the board. Most Macs which lose their internal speaker do so because of this. Also, check the contacts of the speaker on the board at its connector. It's less of an issue with the 475 or other newer LCs (the contact pads do create problems sometimes on the original LC, which uses a...

If you get your SE up to 4MB and want to use a RAM disk, I'd advise RamDisk+ by Roger D. Bates. It's an old shareware utility, and you can actually switch it to be your startup disk so that the system is accessible from it. It will speed things up a little bit.  Even going to a Quantum ProDrive...

It could have been designed to have been always-on, and while I'm not familiar with that exact peripheral, I do have one without a power switch, a LaserWriter 4/600 PS, which was intentionally designed to be left on in low-power mode 24/7. However, given the age of the printer, I decided it...

Old versions of the system didn't have the Mac icon on the System Folder. As Dog Cow points out, MFS is one of the big reasons behind this. I believe it was sometime around 4.1 or 4.2 when the icon started to appear. If you run a later version of the System (like 6) and need to bless a System...

There's a third-party one on eBay right now, not sure if that would be acceptable here as a substitute:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-Macintosh-Plus-case-lock-tab/202891145332?hash=item2f3d413074:g:a9sAAOSwG5teMHfn

Are you referring to Kid Pix 2.1 or 1.2? I know I have 1.2 on most of the Macs that run Kid Pix and have yet to have an issue with the ImageWriter not printing in color. I do have a copy of Kid Pix 2 and could fool with it sometime to see if there's an issue there. Have you tried replacing...

Good call on always taking the Torx with you when you buy a Mac. I admittedly did the same with the SE/30 I bought today. I opened it up on the padded seat of my car so I could check for a leaked battery before I bought it. This isn't the first time I've done it, either...once brought the tools...

The only thing wrong with this is the mouse is a bit yellow. I’ve never done Retrobrite before but since I know I have a pristine mouse lost somewhere in my storage unit just in case, I think I found my first item to try with it!! Any tips for a first timer who lives in a city with a lot of...