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I picked up a Quadra 610 this week that is in working condition. It chimes at startup and I can hear the hard drive spinning up and booting the machine. However, I get no video. I have an old Dell 4:3 VGA monitor and have connected it with a PTC Mac to VGA adapter (10 switches) and also a more...

I have a Color Classic Mystic upgrade running System 8.1 on BlueSCSI. Is there a startup key combination to force a boot on a particular SCSI device? The only stuff I’ve been able to find is for M series and Intel Macs

I’ve got my Color Classic Mystic running, but I’m going nuts trying to get software on it. Sit files from Macintosh garden won’t open half the time, although sometimes I can get it in Basilisk first Anyway, I got After Dark 4 loaded. It comes with 2 screen savers. I downloaded the After Dark...

Hi all. I recently picked up a Color Classic in good shape, other than a dead hard drive. It did boot up to the no-operating system prompt. I also picked up an LC575 logic board which looked to be in good shape, plus a couple of 68040 processors from eBay. I carried out the 640x480 mods to the...

The display on my SE sits at the right edge of the screen. I was going to shift it left and discovered the little adjusting screw in the rheostat is missing. Is there a way to fix that short of replacing it? The display is completely usable as is, but it looks off center

Dumb question: what sort of disk should be used with the 800k drive? Right now I only have some 1.44mb disks. Would 720k pc disks work if reformatted?

I recently acquired an SE. The floppy wasn’t working, so I got it out and lubed everything and replaced the wet-cardboard eject gear, which had stripped. The drive takes in disks now, but I always get the message “this disk is unreadable by this Macintosh”. I get this same result from any...

Hi all, unlike the usual problem of disks not ejecting, my SE is ejecting floppies as soon as they’re inserted. The drive snaps it in, then instantly ejects it. The screen is displaying the question mark disk icon. Anybody got an idea as to why that might be happening?

Hello. Dumb question: I picked up a Mac SE recently. At the moment I’m working overhauling the floppy drive, but the Miniscribe 8425SA seems to be stuck. I haven’t tried powering it up in the Mac, since I’ve got it apart. Will plugging it into power on a pc let it spin up (if it can) without...