Alright, Tom replied. Should I buy one for $35 shipped?

Try writing to Tom Owad, who wrote the article I linked. A few years back he had crates of the things, NIB, which he couldn't get rid of. Rid of which he could not get. Whatever…

I make no guarantees, and this is the advice of an inveterate packrat. Grabbing half a system "just in case" the other half turns up is the precipice of the slippery slope to craz…

I like my B&W's but thats around the time Apple went trendy with form over function. Click to expand... / such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, b…

With a RAM upgrade to 1MB or more and an 800K floppy, short full screen animations were possible, such as these:http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Mac_Movies/Mac_Movies.html Cl…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…

THAT'S THE ONE! / VGA port?? Click to expand... IIRC it was only made in Blueberry / it shipped with a standard VGA connector Click to expand... Later models were also colo…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! The Apple II music is awesome too!

There is something cool about beige macs, I like my B&W's but thats around the time Apple went trendy with form over function. Click to expand... That'd be the effect …

Rodime were one of the worst makes of drive back in the day. I believe an early edition of The Macintosh Bible mentions Rodime as an unreliable drive. A simple Google search reveal…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…

Basically when state entities such as universities, schools, offices, etc get finished with things like desks, chairs, projectors, computers, and so on they enter the surplus syste…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…

It did not expand the lower resolutions to fit the display, it just displayed the resolutions using only one real pixel per one visible pixel and had massive black borders around t…

That is indeed a very respectable first conquest. Well done, soldier!

Ditto } What is this "surplus" of which you speak?

Yeah, I remember back in 1999 I went to an Apple Roadshow event they had here, where they used to demo the new stuff that had recently come out (in this case, it was the slot load …

The second generation Wallstreets were the ones that could drop video down to 640x480 and 800x600 if needed (a bit blocky at 640x480). Click to expand... It did not expand the …

Yeah, the SE FDHD upgrade involved replacing the IWM chip with a SWIM chip, as you said, as well as replacement ROMs.

The original 128 and 512 could do very little animation because of the lack of memory. About the only option was MacroMind's VideoWorks, which allowed animating a small software sp…

The original SE (4 SIMMs are angled) doesn't have much clearance for the motherboard, a SE30 with the 8 SIMM slots (that stick straight out) will not fit. The difference between a …

My 13" 292Mhz Wallstreet acts up once every few months for a second and thats it (video), it is probably the fastest stock Wallstreet made because of the 83Mhz bus speed. The secon…

serial port/modem port Click to expand... Yep. I was just looking at that port the other day thinking "Now what am I going to use *that* for?" Click to expand... There are …

Does your Rev. 2 B&W still have the good old fashioned serial port/modem port Click to expand... Yep. I was just looking at that port the other day thinking "Now what a…

I would like to have a 1.44 MB floppy, but I think I read somewhere that it would require a logic board upgrade, and then I wouldn't be able to use a second built-in floppy. Can an…