Yep no problems at all booting from an external hard drive. But yes, Pluses never had an internal anyway... booting from floppies and running off floppies was the normal manner …

Mine's old enough that it doesn't have a hard drive, will System 6 run on floppies and if not it can boot from an external hard drive right?

+1 for getting a copy of 6... max1zzz has a mirror of the old now defunct unsupported software archive up on the web and you can find .sea files of the System 6 startup disk set he…

System 3 - Juliet Elysa? Damn... You should get System 6 and get more software for the Plus. A lot of things that will run on System 7 will on on System 6. 

plus is a great machine!

Aw, sorry to hear about the PowerBook. But congrats on finally finding a Plus! Especially a working one. I love mine, though I can't really do much on it due to a lack of softwa…

I had a few bad Macintosh Conquests lately.  From a local recycler I got a Powerbook 140 & a Macintosh IIcx which don't work.  The Powerbook is beyond help, the Macintosh I…

That is just plain weird. I've seen a lot of odd electronics, but never a chip-on-chip socket like that. 

Oh butts. Oh well. Live and learn.......

Here's a pic of both.

snuci said: Correction: You can low level format all the 5MB ProFiles whenever you want.  The 10MB ProFile requires a Z8613 piggyback Z8.  If you need to borrow it, let me kn…

snuci said: Correction: You can low level format all the 5MB ProFiles  you want, whenever you want.  The 10MB ProFile requires a Z8613 piggyback Z8.  If you need to borrow it…

CelGen said: No longer have to bum the chip off snuci. Now I can do work on my ProFile (or any other) whenever I want. Click to expand... Correction: You can low leve…

Not necessarily, I have seen the same panels used in older Pentium era laptops. I think I have one or two lying around somewhere. 

TheWhiteFalcon said: They're so pretty though, I personally think the 2003 DP models are the most attractive computer interior ever made. I wish I still had my 1.8. Click …

CE? I know since it is IDE, you can replace the IDE Drive in it and put in a CF with a CF-to-IDE Converter in it and watch it boot a lot faster and run for hours on battery! I hav…

They're so pretty though, I personally think the 2003 DP models are the most attractive computer interior ever made. I wish I still had my 1.8.

Welp, can't sleep tonight as you can probably tell, and do not have to work until the evening, so I decided to stop procrastinating and remove the 2.0DP from my office as it was ta…

Man, this thing is a godsend... for the past 15 years Ive been using a small multi-bit driver with a handle just narrow enough to slide down the sides of a compact handle... except…

I finally bought an 18" Torx screwdriver to work on compacts. Bit long but it definitely works.

So. In my new quests with vintage apple collecting, I seem to have acquired the most homely PB duo one has ever seen. The battery blew up long ago. The front filter on the LCD pane…

Update on the second Classic... took it apart yesterday after my last post, and glaringly obvious are what look to be the two filter caps busted open, which would have explained at…

Don't give up with old batteries. The Portable uses a lead acid battery, which can be exercised, possibly to rejuvenation. Boaters know people who have battery exercisers which can…

I think there's also a device you can buy just for doing low-level formats without the need of a ProFile card and special ROM.  I seem to recall seeing one on eBay.

mactjaap said: Could you explain a little bit where this is for? Click to expand... ProFile hard disks cannot low-level format on their own. There was not enough space in…