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  1. Scott Baret

    Bootable SC20 with IBM disk

    Try Silverlining. I've ben able to use it for all of my non-Apple disks.
  2. Scott Baret

    LC/LCII/LCIII power connector

    Chances are good it was proprietary, albeit given to three manufacturers of the PSU. I believe Apple designed it alongside TDK, at least from what I recall of early notes on the LC. I'd say about 90% of LCs have TDK PSUs. The other 10% were made by Astec and Delta. Delta PSUs are easy to spot...
  3. Scott Baret

    Sales figures for compact Macs

    A roll call on here may or may not be accurate. Again, we have our preferences, and there are probably a disproportionate amount of SE/30s and CCs compared to the real world. I've actually flipped three CCs and four SE/30s in the past fifteen years. All have sold at a profit and sold rather...
  4. Scott Baret

    Sales figures for compact Macs

    Having entered the Apple world when compacts were still being sold, I can offer some insight, but no set figures. We know about how many 128K/512K are out there given when the million mark was hit. The 512K was produced thereafter for a short time as the 512Ke (which really began in 1986) and...
  5. Scott Baret

    LCII crapped the bed

    I have nine LC and LC II machines and all work without a PRAM battery.
  6. Scott Baret

    "(Error #-199)" Error Code

    Have you formatted this drive recently? -199 represents a drive map error. Alternately, try copying the files directly from the System 6 floppies to the drive. There is nothing to decompress on a System 6 disk so the files can be copied without any problems. If you have the 1.4MB floppies, just...
  7. Scott Baret

    AppleCD SC M2850 disassembly

    The tabs are along the grooves on the sides. You'll want to use a small screwdriver. To avoid leaving scratch marks, wrap the blade in electrical tape. Apple's ZFP SCSI hard drives (i.e. 20SC) use the same disassembly procedure.
  8. Scott Baret

    You can never have too many storage options...

    Adding hard disks was always the way to go, but very few saw it due to the price unless they truly did the math and a little shopping, even in the very early days. Case in point: my Mac LC and its storage issue. When I got the machine in 1992, it came with a 40MB drive. That was the more...
  9. Scott Baret

    Early Mac LC proto?

    A few second floppy notes: 1. The LC II lacks the connector for the second floppy but it looks like most of the framework for it is there. Other than the 030, extra RAM, and lack of second floppy connector, the most notable change on the LC II board is the fact there are pin connectors for the...
  10. Scott Baret

    Printing on ImageWriter II from Apple IIGS

    It should use the same cable as the SE. Mini DIN-8 on both ends.
  11. Scott Baret

    Picked up some old machines from a friend

    Does the iMac G3 make any noises when the display does this? I saw (and heard) this problem in a Bondi a few years back. I'd suspect the flyback first but wouldn't rule out any component driving the video or on the analog board. Best to take this one component-by-component.
  12. Scott Baret

    PB190, is it the worst? (Probably).

    I believe the RAM is the same since they share the same connector. I'm not sure about video though.
  13. Scott Baret

    Color Classic Analog Board problems

    I'm having this same problem with a recently-acquired CC. I do have two known good logic boards to pop in (a 520 and a re-capped 550), so I can test this hypothesis for you this weekend.
  14. Scott Baret

    Mac LC Weirdness - Electric Charge? Shorting Out?

    Popped a spare in and ran it for 20 minutes. No problems. The hard drive also failed to spin up two weeks ago. It worked fine today.
  15. Scott Baret

    Mac LC Weirdness - Electric Charge? Shorting Out?

    When I started the computer up, it kept restarting every few seconds and the hard drive would start to spin down.
  16. Scott Baret

    Mac LC Weirdness - Electric Charge? Shorting Out?

    I have an LC, both logic board and PSU re-capped, with a strange issue. The logic board appears to build up some sort of weird charge over time. It causes video interference over time and today caused the computer to short out while starting up. I unplugged the PSU from the board, re-inserted...
  17. Scott Baret

    How to change screen resolution? (LCIII, System 7.1)

    Monitors has an interesting history with the early versions.  If you put the Monitors cdev in the System Folder under System 6, it won't show up in the Control Panel on a black and white Mac. It does open on one in System 7, but won't do much unless you have an external monitor installed.  As...
  18. Scott Baret

    LACIE - Joule Modular Storage System - Snow White stripes . . .

    LaCie certainly had some interesting designs. My personal favorite was the Backster, which mounted on the back of a compact Mac. (I've always thought that it would give enough depth, if modified, to fit the CC's CRT into another case while installed).
  19. Scott Baret

    PB190, is it the worst? (Probably).

    I have a 190 sitting around and while it currently won't boot up, it's not a terrible machine. I got one that was almost new a few years ago on eBay.  I always felt there was an identity crisis with the 190. It was some odd cross between the 520/540, 5300, and 150. The 100-series naming also...
  20. Scott Baret

    How to change screen resolution? (LCIII, System 7.1)

    In 7.1, it's simply Monitors. I believe 7.6 changed to Monitors and Sound. Did you find the model number of your monitor?
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