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I'm seeing a pair of iMac g3s for $20 for both a couple of hours away from me.  Looks like a graphite and maybe an indigo. Not in super shape. I'd jump but I already have a couple, including a Flower Power (Yay!)

Is that hot glue? It looks like hot glue. Only issue is, everywhere I look says the alcohol is good for removing hot glue, so maybe that's out. I saw someone recommend acetone for hot glue.  I don't know how that interacts with the circuit board, but I suspect it would be fine and it's a good...

Was the disk formatted with the Iomega software, or was other software used? I seem to recall that some formatting software installed drivers on the disk that marked it as a fixed disk, versus as an ejectable/removable disk.

Seems like that printer had the print nozzles in the cartridge.  Make sure the contacts on the printer and on the cartridge are clean. Are these New-new cartridges or are they New old stock?  Not sure how well old stock would do; ink could have dried up or even just thickened enough to not flow.

The Dead Mac Scrolls lists two different chips in the keyboard that can be killed by using a telephone cord.

CharlieFrown, I think this is a good spot to mention the modified mice you are selling that are suitable for use with a Mac 512k.  OP may have missed that post.

I use a cupcake pan (or two) to help keep track of screws.  Helps make it slightly less painful.

The usb floppy drive will neither read nor write 800k floppies

The Macintosh 12" RGB monitor M1296 was a popular choice for LC owners at the time because it was cheap and it was the same width as the LC and looked nice perched on top. They're cute, and they can be tough to come by anymore because everybody hated them at the time but wants one now.   The...

Can't tell by the photo whether you've already done it, but get the battery out of there.  They're a ticking time bomb.

Goo-Gone is pretty agressive; Goof-Off is gentler and still does a good job. For a G4 cube I'd test it first though.

I've been looking at a Microdrive IIgs, which plugs into a slot and uses a CF card as a hard drive.  $115, which doesn't seem too bad.  You can also change out the firmware ROM and use it in a IIe too...

Doesn't look like any Apple printer I've ever seen (and I think I've seen virtually all of them)

You can use a standard mac printer cable to connect the printer ports of the 475 and the 6116 and use it as an AppleTalk network connection.  Really slick little trick that many are unaware of.

Use a usb to serial adapter and remote in to OSX terminal with it... Super cool looking though.

If I recall correctly they all had the grey plastic inner case.  Most of the imacs I've seen lately have at least a few cracks there, some catastrophic others minor.  My flower power has a few cracks too. Good luck with that!  What a great computer!

One of the Color Stylewriters would probably be a good bet.  They were decent printers as I recall, and they used a Canon inkjet cartridge so if any ancient ink cartridges are available these should be. Some of the old HP Deskjet printers would probably be good too, but I think you'd have to be...

That's a very nice resource for system software versions and enablers.  I just wish it would print up better; I'm saving it as a pdf for future reference. Thanks!

Ok, I looked and these are the pages that I was thinking about: http://www.jagshouse.com/zipMacPlus.html http://www.vintagemacworld.com/pluszip.html There are probably others out there.

Should work, but be careful about zip disks and the Plus.  Seems like the Plus can use the Zip, but only with an older version (they're all old of course) of the Zip software/driver.  The challenge is that the newer driver will install itself over the older one just by inserting a disk. Google...