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How do you manage to do that, software-wise?

It used to be conventional advice that a CC sometimes needs to be plugged in (with a logic board installed) for a few hours in order to boot up. That advice was given 10-15 years back, at any rate; what time and tide has since further degraded may make it redundant, but if I were you, I’d begin...

Stupid question, but needed at this point: You do have the ROM installed in its slot, do you? Lots of old machines have been cannibalized for parts.

That would depend on how much storage I needed, but if the goal were just to NetBoot some Apple II machines, and maybe some light duty as a source for basic installers and such, I’d go for something low powered that could run everything from a RAM disk, and otherwise spin down the hard drive to...

Just to add to an excellent suggestion: the “Erase all data” in the previous post means to reset to how the machine came from the factory, rather than to blank everything out. NewtonWorks et al will still be on there. Also, don’t interrupt the device if and when the erase starts!

On the CD bezel question, I recall having trouble with mine also. It was maybe four years ago, but as I recall, the bezel from an 8500 would not fit the Q800, and I went back to using the original blank (I have some external scsi drives, so that was no special bother). The machine was...

I have had several passive-matrix 100 series PowerBooks pass through my hands over the past few years. All have needed the screen recapped, i.e., all showed the symptoms described, and all came back to life after the screen was recapped. I did the recaps myself. I am no expert with a soldering...

Why the best Mac ever?

I would try to be quite sure that there isn’t a small scrap of paper, like a corner of a page, stuck somewhere in the mechanism. What you describe is how the LaserWriters of my acquaintance, like the 4/600, are apt to behave when a little piece of torn paper gets left behind after a paper jam...

You could also try “Rubber Renue” or an automotive rubber reconditioner on the rollers. This has worked for me on old laser printers with paper feed trouble.

Yes, of course. The one you have has its advantages — above all the ability to use the 601 card as well. On the cache question, you will know more than me, given your background. My understanding is that the cache holds data and instructions just outside the CPU so that it does not need to be...

Interesting stuff. Some time back I searched in vain for what must have been years for an 040 PDS cache card. In the end I came up with a Daystar Quad 040 PDS card (40mhz and I think 128k on said card), where there have been no stability implications at all running in a Q650, or before that, in...

Would X.3 Server work, does anyone know?

The Micromac product included an adapter board (soldered onto the new logic board), which converted the edge connector. So what you are talking about is not a simple DIY solution. I happen to have the Micromac upgrade pictured. It is destined for eBay, as my LC575 fell to pieces, I was moving...

Apple Internet Router is very stable and, as I recall, runs on any 68020/30/40 with LocalTalk and Ethernet. Don’t know how stably it would run on a 6100, though, because I think you’d want to be running it on the back of System 7.1. Just because I had nice examples that I wanted a use for, I...

Fat Cursors is your friend. https://www.macintoshrepository.org/25630-fat-cursors#:~:text=What%20is%20Fat%20Cursors%3F,Fat%20Cursors%20v1.

I have a vague recollection that I once transplanted one from a 17” ACD display onto a 20”. Never had occasion to try it on a 23” model.

There’s more than one layer in the screen. I believe that I have some examples of the bottom layer here (NOS). I’ve probably got three or four of them. If it’s one of those you need, send me a note. I didn’t see this auction, but have been keeping an eye out for a reasonably priced 2100 with a...

No idea about the plastics, sorry. In your position I’d persevere, however, as I liked the look of the eMac about a thousand times more than those of the G3 iMac. I couldn’t stand those things back when they came out, and still can’t. For some reason, the eMac does not for me hold the same...