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That's awesome, which Mac did you get? I would be so conflicted on opening that!

@NJRoadFan Do you also boot from the CFFA card? I am curious how the speed compares between the HD and your SCSI card. I finally acquired a SCSI card for an Apple II, but it's just the standard model Apple SCSI, not the high speed model.

Would the Plus have actually had a hard drive? No hard drive with either, I would have chosen the IIGS, might still today. Hard drive with the Plus, I probably would have chosen a Plus. Although, back then I would have only been interested in games, so the IIGS would probably have won out...

As soon as I saw the first post I was thinking you would build one! I have one dead Rom 1 that I was thinking would be interesting to use for some kind of case mod, maybe an LC w/ IIe card of some kind. Have you seen this? (Apple2Pi)...

Thanks, I will definitely give this a shot. I have a badly cracked (destroyed) monitor I will test this on. Just received another compact Mac damaged in shipping.

Thanks, I have had excellent success with goop holding things together. I have never used it for a cosmetic repair though. Did it hide the crack for you, or just keep it from getting worse?

I recently received a 512k that suffered a cracks case from a combination if poor packing and USPS abuse. Is there a proper method to fix a crack in the front case? There are no pieces broken off or missing, but there are three stress cracks that I Would like to make sure dont get worse and...

So what did you end up going with!?

Picked up a CC today with KB and Mouse. The case is in excellent shape. I think the logic board needs to be capped, doesn't want to boot, but it looks pretty clean. It fired right up with an LC520 board in it 8-)

My 512K will periodically boot to a sad mac if it doesn't read the floppy. It is also picky about the floppy brand apparently. You might get double lucky and just need a decent floppy disk to get it to boot. That's awesome, where did your dad pick that up from?

That's a good point. I will have to double check the floppy cable. I am pretty confident the connector on the analog board needs to be resoldered though. Jiggling that cable seems to have an impact.

Well, I don't have a great explanaintion for this, but now they are both working! I took the logic board out of the 1st one, looked it over, blew off just a little bit of dust, put it back in and it started seeking immediately. The screen was blank, so I moved the connector ever so slightly...

Well, I made some significant progress throughout the day. I started working on my second 512K. I started out by rigging a long thin Q-Tip contraption with a screwdriver handle to clean the read head without tearing apart the computer and the drive. I made about six different boot disks. I...

Thanks, I'm still not having any luck. I got the Paint and System 2.0 images to boot my mac plus with it's internal 800k and an external 800k from my IIGS. Both disks in the internal 400k attached to the 512K will show a happy mac for a second or two, but then it goes to a floppy with an X and...

Sorry for digging up an old post here, but I am having issues with two 400k floppy drives and am curious what your results were. Were you able to fix any of the drives? Mine try to read, but fail to read known good 400k disks.

I recently acquired two Mac 512k with the original 400k floppy drives. One of the machines had a jammed floppy drive so I did some searching and learned how to remove the crusty grease and lubricate the eject mechanism. I have the eject mechanism moving freely, but I am unable to boot the...

Awesome! So how many of these video issues have you fixed Uniserver!?! I pulled this post back up because I am about to embark on trying to fix a scsi issue on another se/30

That's awesome

Please update if you are successful, I would like to do the same thing, but would like to avoid hacking either the CC or the board.

Nice, what did you pick it up for if you don't mind me asking. I have one with a cracked molar too :'(