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I'm no electrician, but I would have to say that solder joint on C6 looks suspicious (I assume that to be some kind of diode. But I'm probably wrong. :p ). The solder pad on the + marker looks fine. I'm talking about the one opposite of that. Visually speaking that's really the only thing I...

Yeah I definitely understand that. I recall Windows machines grew up on the days of MS-DOS and other command line based OSs. So keyboard control was important and retained even in more modern operating systems. The Macintosh emphasized a mouse driven GUI environment that is simpliar and easily...

Cool. If I don't find something like that locally, that would certainly be where I get it now. :D My Macintosh SE is only slightly yellowed. (and the fluorescent light in my bedroom makes it appear a bit more yellow then it really is) So I would think mine would likely not "re-yellow" after a...

Is there anything similar to Mouse Keys for MacOS 7? I need to see if I can use the keyboard to control the mouse cursor since I don't have a mouse. :(

Ok I ran Lido anyway. It starts up and scans the bus. But once it reaches id 0, the hard-drive shows a bit of activity but after about 10 seconds this error comes up: "OSErr = 5 Bad SCSI Command: phase error." I click ok and it will then show the device on id 0 and reports the correct capacity...

Is Lido keyboard friendly? EDIT: I ran it in Basilisk. Doesn't appear I can do anything with this program without a mouse. I wonder if there's some simple app/extension that can assign keys on the keyboard to mouse actions. I could then use the keyboard to move the mouse. Would be a decent...

Sorry for all the double posts, But the forum's time limit on editing posts is too short. :( I've gotten a patched version of Apple HD Setup. Started that and it says it can't find a suitable drive. So even the patched version won't initialize it. Since it shows up on SCSI Probe, it isn't a...

Ok the drive shows up on SCSI Probe. Could be it's not formatted correctly. I will try and find a patched or third party HD setup program. The stock Apple HD Setup app doesn't see it. Probably because it may not be an Apple branded drive. Since SCSI Probe sees it, that rules out connection...

Ok got a hard-drive for the Macintosh SE. It's a Seagate ST-157N. Appears to be a 40MB drive. It spins up and I can hear the head moving. However it won't boot from it. The floppy disk icon still comes up. Though it does appear to be "trying" to access the drive as I hear the drive head click...

Yeah the external USB Floppies are all the same kind used in PCs, so you probably can't use those to write 800k disks. :(

I have the "Legacy Recovery CD" image I got from some website. Not sure I can link to it here. But I can grab the 7.1.1 installer files off the disk and PM you those. :D I believe they are all stored as Disk Copy drive images. I would hope you have another Mac to create the disks with as you...

Yeah. Unfortunately it looks like it could be a long while before I can get an SE/30. I live in a small town so it's really unlikely I will ever find one locally and I don't drive so going out of town is out of the question. Getting one from somewhere online will probably be the only way. Yeah...

You found a pawn shop that still has old Macs? Man I wished I lived where you live. :p I do know the music store in my town has an old PowerPC Mac (similar in design to what you have), but never did see (or recall) the exact model. It was in the back office though and I don't think they are...

Nice! So it has two floppies AND a hard-drive? Looks like some aftermarket side mounted setup. I heard such a configuration wasn't officially supported by Apple at the time. :p MacOS 7.5? I personally wouldn't recommend running 7.5 on a SE. (I tried it on my Macintosh Classic way back when I...

Oh. Well I shall PM him about that then. :p

I managed to navigate to the General Controls control panel despite not having a mouse and saw that the date was on 1/1/04 (1904 I assume). Yeah PRAM battery appears to be dead. My OCD was compelling me to remove this ticking time bomb from my Mac: I checked it with a small LED I have and it...

Thanks for the response! Yeah I agree the SE is a great start on getting a compact Mac. I could have also gotten a Macintosh Plus or 128k/512k. But for what ever reason I prefer to have something that can use an internal hard-drive (without doing some wierd after-market mods to the system. :p...

A week or so ago, I bought a Macintosh SE (SuperDrive) from eBay. The seller sold it to me for $60 + 17.68 shipping. Which given the price this and other compac Macs were selling for looked like a decent deal. Though it did not come with any additional accesories. It did however have a Asente...