I gave up trying to figure out why, but it appears to be related to the lack of hardware handshaking in the SCSI implementation uniquely used by the Plus. Click to expand... In…

I have retrieved monitors (high voltage components) and power supplies after a thorough soaking in Mother Nature's distilled water from the sky. As long as they are well dried, I …

My recently-acquired IIfx (with Mac II top cover) came to me in an excessively grimy condition. Oddly enough, because it cleaned up so well, the layer of dirt may have actually pre…

Thats one ugly mofo.

Yeah I am thinking that when we move, I will have a super modern white table with shelves and setup the mice and keyboards so that people can use them. Currently my macs are either…

How big's your backyard? Might be time to invest in a shed, or a shipping container Click to expand... Or a room with shelving on every wall fitted to size of each machine, s…

a fast G4 upgrade Click to expand... Yeah, good luck with that. I've been trying to find a good price on one of these upgrades for months, with no luck at all. They regularly f…

Ambitious? Tell 'im 'e's dreamin'!

How big's your backyard? Might be time to invest in a shed, or a shipping container

Egg cartons and icecube trays work nicely too.

I was curious as to why the eBay offering might have needed to be held—almost as if just the isolated rear and front panels were available for display—while it was having its pictu…

What's even more messed up is that right before I graduated, the school bought even more clones and those new clones used a slightly smaller version of the desktop version of that …

The 2 black ones in the back (visible) and the 2 silver ones deep in the handle are all you need to split the case open. Click to expand... I know. Is there any easy way to ge…

Yeah, most of the Tanzania clones simply used PC cases. The Mactell (hah, nice name) and APS M-Power systems (which were also Tanzania based from memory) also used the exact same c…

That same case design, except in a desktop form, was used by a bunch of PC clones we used to have in school. Kind of scary.

Very nice. Best of luck with the parents!

A Plus An SE 2x IIcx's A 7100 An 8100 A Dot Matrix Printer A whole bunch of SCSI gear Means I'll definitely have to have a clean out, and if I double up on either of the Pow…

I remember reading about PowerTools in MacAddict back in the day...from memory they sold their machines in kit form, with no RAM, hard drive, video card or peripherals. Thats the f…

Perhaps as a result of my ineptitude with the search engine, I have seen/found no current/prior reference in these forums to this sale on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl…

Things to watch out for: 1) External drive must supply termination power (the power supply in the Plus is too feeble to do the job, so the design team decided that the external bo…

When I was taking apart the first iBook, I used one paper cup for each "event". An event would be like: - Remove bottom plastic (and all the screws for this go into a cup) - Rem…

The 2 black ones in the back (visible) and the 2 silver ones deep in the handle are all you need to split the case open.

Yeah, I do the exact same thing....but then I bump the paper......and its all downhill after that :-/

How do I take my SE apart? I know where the screws are, and I have the right bit, but I can't get to the bottom screws. Is there any common tool that I can use to open it? Thank…

If you are running 128k without swapping a stack of 400k floppies you aren't living the dream!