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Is there anything on the analog board that can't be recovered from? like a bad transformer?

I bought a macintosh classic from a local collector that wasn't working, as my first compact mac project. Currently, when I try to power it up, the CRT does not come on (analog board issue?), as well as no chime. Sometimes when I apply power, there will be a white beam that sort of fills the...

So I've spotted a Macintosh Plus for sale in Canada. It comes with no mouse and keyboard and is for parts or repair. But I thought it would make a fun project trying to repair one of these things. Now, the main thing I'm concerned about is the mouse and keyboard. I see them go for 50 dollars for...

There is a way to bypass this, the problem is during the loading of the game, it may need some data from th OS, and since the ram can only hold so much, it requires you to swap floppies. The way to bypass this is to have the OS installed on a hard drive or have an external floppy drive. Now, I...

How much should I expect to pay for one of these compact macs in this day and age.

But wheres the fun in using a floppy disk emulator? I want to feel the real disks! :)

Now that's another question... How do I transfer files to these things? I don't have any other Mac around the house and I only have Windows and Linux computers. But I've heard Linux supports HFS, but can it write to HFS?

I'm lookin for a compact Mac. I've been looking into the Classic model, as they seem like the most affordable on eBay. But are there other models that you guys could recommend that's fairly affordable?

I'm in the urban part.

Hm, then I should probably be looking for an early power pc mac then

Hi! I'm a new member here and I'd like to introduce myself. I enjoy retro tech and I've always wanted a compact Mac for quite some time now. But funds, and shipping costs make it an improbability. But some day, a compact Mac will be mine :) . Anyways, now I want to move on to the main...