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In my eternal quest to find the easiest way to transfer files between the cloud and my vintage macs, I recently purchased two Zip100 Iomega drives. One has the SCSI interface and connects to the Classics, and one that has a USB interface that I connect to my Macbook. So I can copy files from the...

I noticed that on my 2/10, it takes about a second for the processor to register that I clicked on something before I can drag it. Interesting that the screen icon that I click registers (changes contrast) immediately, but I still have to wait a second before I can drag.

This was long in the making ! Almost 5 years ago, I purchased a Lisa 2/10, well technically a Mac XL, from someone on Craigslist. The story was actually very cool. The seller said that he was working as a cameraman for NBC News, and he was the one filming the 1984 Mac launch at the Flint Center...

Yeah, there is definitely some voyeurism going when I first revive an old HDD. My most interesting documents was a series of letters written by a man (he happened to be a minister) to his wife, trying to save his marriage. Then, letters to a counselor showed up, followed by letters to a divorce...

Wow. thanks ArmorAlley. A lot of these are beyond my skill set, but that will give me something to learn. Much appreciated !

Hi: I'm looking at the best way to download legacy Mac software from the Internet to use on my Compact Mac (eg SE/30, CC etc..). In the past, I used my old WinXP computer and it was tedious, but it worked. Now that I have Win10, it does not work any longer.  So, what is best way to do this ...

I'm a French expat, born and raised in Paris, but now living in the SF Bay Area. Great place for a vintage Mac fan !

Yeah, those Sonys are finicky. I spent almost the whole week-end going through my collection of old 3.5" SCSI HDD's. I have 19 of them, and 6 external ones. Interestingly, none of my two Sony's full height 40MB spun on power on, but both did after I gently tapped their side. Looks like they both...

I finally found a solution to my problem. I used a combination of Lido and Macinstor software (I have an old external 600MD HDD from them, with the software in it). I found that most of the bad blocks were clustered in a small range, in the middle of the drive. What I did then was to note the...

Thanks ILikeTech for the advice. Downloading Silverlining Pro now, and will try this week-end when I finally got time to tinker. And yes Techknight, I spend 27 years in R&D at Seagate, IBM, and HGST, working on HDD reliability, so I can tell you everything you want to know (or don't) about...

No, I don't think I get new ones. Just the ones that had grown during the 25 years in storage. The HDD was dead, but Lido's Format revived it. However, a 7.0.1 OS install failed. I tried to split the 80M drive into two partitions, and I could install the OS into one of them. However, I found...

I have revived yet another SE30. The HDD, however (Quantum Prodrive 80S) is throwing errors. I thought that a Lido format would find and reallocate bad blocks, but it does not seem to be doing that. So I tried the "Overnight Test" in the Lido software, hoping to do just that. However, it seems...

gsteemso: thanks. Can you say a bit more about how to fix those electric traces ? Would you use one of these conductive glue pens ? Would they be making lines that would be thin enough for this screen ?

Update today: I could remove the glass assembly from the metal frame (pushed gently on glass with toothpick through corner holes) , and slowly removed the zebra strip all the way around. Now I have the LCD glass just by itself. I cleaned all the way around. But using a magnifying glass, I...

OK so I finally got to it this week-end. I detached the PCB from the LCD glass, and cleaned the zebra stripes all the way around (see photo 1). Upon reassembly, I noticed that I had to add small pieces of spacer material (I used clear blister packaging pieces) in order to keep the contacts...

Thanks everyone. For what it's worth, I inadvertently dropped the computer last week-end (fortunately on the carpeted floor so nothing broke), and the line pattern changed a bit. This would tend to incriminate the contacts. I'll report next week after I have a chance to look into it some more.

So I just revived a Mac portable (non backlit), and now have it boot up from an external HDD. I bought it off CL for $50, and following great advice from this forum, I recapped the board, recelled the battery. I also had to change one of the power FET that had died.  So everything worked as...