Boot from a floppy and run SCSI probe to have a look at the bus and see if it's advertising itself. You have two problems... 1. As I understand it the Mac Plus requires drives th…

I'm trying to connect a SCSI HD to the Mac Plus, but for some reason, it's not recognizing it. Actually, it's not even recognizing that the drive is connected. Not even an old ve…

Is there any market for the machine in its present condition? johnboy Click to expand... I also have the original box she arrived in and all her diskettes - OS Install …

It’s great to hear you experts discussing what type of disk I should install, and esoteric (beyond me!) methods to prepare an Apple image to store on this disk, and many thanks for…

Update: I have bought the SCSI-IDE adapter, and IDE-CF adapter. (actually 2 of each, my IIci will also be CF-driven). Meanwhile, I have also disassembled the SE's PSU, to find gold…

I have a PM 9500 Motherboard that I am pretty sure works, but if you want it, it's Free+shipping to you from Omaha, NE 68132 USA Let me know

Maintenance? HDD: file defragmentation/file-directory repair/archiving files (to maintain less than 85% fullth [a technical term]). Break-and-make of all connector-socket junctio…

Ram yes, changing it out did not work, one of the first things I did. Was using 4x 128mb dimms, interleaved. Battery is full 3.6v. El Nino? lol

After a night of test installations today I managed to install a stable version of 9.1+ onto a 7200 with Sonnet G3/400/1MB L2/224MB RAM, ATI Rage, 1GB Harddisk and a TEAC CD burner…

And if this wasn't about PowerPCs, I'd mention the holy grail of clones - the Radius SkyLab :O

Id go for a PowerWave Stargate with Nubus/PCI. } just because nubus is teh win

Battery? El Nino?

Have you tried different RAM?

Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(or more) of service …

PMed you johnboy. =)

Yeah stupid me, I meant tip. Some of the joints are quite small. Tomlee: Yes data suggests otherwise. I may actually be selling the Classic 2! I got an offer from Classic Mac 500

Nice conquest! FWB Hard Disk Toolkit is one of the better third-party hard drive formatters out there. It formats really quickly and can make multiple bootable partitions (unlike …

Quite a good program that one - I have version 3.5. Definitely a must-have for anyone with an older Mac and non-Apple HDDs. Good score.

I've got a few copies from my apple technician days in the 90's. It's nothing special, but it works when nothing else will. Just be sure to read up on any bugs in the release you h…

I always liked working on my PB 170 (when it was alive) but I absolutely abhored my PowerBook 190. That thing broke so often, it was not even funny. I lost my homework everytime i…

The Duo 210 (and I imagine others in the line) is quite easy also.

All I can say is that it works very well - I have version 4.5 and it does the job.

After hearing about it for years I finally bought a copy of Hard Disk Toolkit. It's version 2.0 and the manual is a hulking beast of a book. I've used just about every other hard d…

The only annoyance is finding the tiny torx screwdrivers > Click to expand... Not really. I just turn to the tray in which I keep all my special tools for working on com…

The only annoyance is finding the tiny torx screwdrivers >