Well, as of late I have noticed my SE Superdrive has developed a bit of a jittery display most noticable when it first powers on, and some ever so slight dimensional changes with c…

I'm not sure if the space between the two nubs needs to be clear... so a full axle might not work.  a nice tight-fitting bit of metal (perhaps as simple as a bit of clothes hanger …

Could do a rod, or drill out the one side and glue a rod into it.

The different angles of door is something I have not been thinking about much. Your argument makes lot of senses... But how do you suggest I proceed to repair that little pin that…

meall said: I have an external III floppy that I could "destroy" to repair the main unit, but I'm looking at a better/cleaner solution. Click to expand... You'll need to …

I'm glad you sorted that out. I hope now things will be easy for you when you replace the floppy drive. You should be able to replace the drive guts with another working one like a…

I have an Apple III I bought many years ago from a member of this forum. Can't remember who, sadly! I have not started it in years, but I know it needs some care. The first thing …

NJRoadfan said: All the original files from Apple are 800k Disk Copy 4.2 images in self extracting archives. To install on a HD you need all 6 disks. Disk 7 is used for Apple…

I love my two NuPower batteries - they are both getting weaker, alas. I keep babying them along.

I assumed it was a power management issue as it won't charge batteries anymore (hasn't for years) but that could of course just be dead batteries! (One of them was a new NuPower Ma…

I would guess it was a power management issue with the software.  Like shutdown every 15 minutes.  It only asked you because you were using it.

Yes , strange. Maybe a virus, there was some : http://lowendmac.com/2015/classic-mac-os-viruses/ Can get them with old downloaded games sometimes. Install Desinfectant.  Happy t…

I booted from a 9.1 CD and it wasn't doing it, so I did a fresh install... and it's ok now. Genuinely confused as to what caused it (~15 years playing with Macs and I've never see…

Have you tried booting from a system cd , see if it does the same ?

I know this isn't a mechanical problem, as I've gone so far as to unplug the power button to see what I can do here. I know the power button works, because it can boot the thing f…

(Elfen you were right, the floppy that I normally put disk tools on had died.  The SCSI CD drive will no longer boot either the c or cs, but I think it may be a termination issue. …

Ok so the 5300c's bus is fine; this is at least partly a drive issue.  The drive in question, with a jumper, spins but isn't recognized.  Without a jumper it spins and shuts down i…

I was going to say, Elfen, if you can clue me in to any factors you think might affect the cards, I can test them systematically and make like a grid along with a correlation of th…

The adapters giving problems are all directly PCMCIA/Cardbus to SD.  I successfully set up my 16gb card - the one that had the weird OS 8.5 Disk Tools System Folder on it - with th…

Lets go back to the very beginning... You got... A CF in a PCMCIA adapter that crashed a 3400 and gives problems on a 5300? It gave  a Sad Mac on the 3400 and then bars on boot wh…

The floppy drive has been very well tested and works perfectly.  The disk also works perfectly. I was going to say the SCSI enclosure didn't work but it appears to be booting to O…

Elfen said: I think you can turn the unit on as a SCSI Drive and connect it to another Mac through the SCSI Port and inspect the drive like modern Macs can connect by FireWir…

bigmessowires said: A commenter on my blog also pointed out this homebrew adapter based on an Altera DE0-Nano. It's got a very nicely detailed write-up of how it works. https…

Yes, I'd like one as well for my IIgs. Maybe if I got one, I'd actually use it! c

raoulduke said: It doesn't seem to be able to boot from floppy.  It starts to boot normally and then on the smiling mac it spits out the floppy and goes back to the flashing …