The II and IIfx do need a working battery. In these old machines, the battery actually closes a relay in the power supply to turn 'em on. A Kensington or other fan will do a lot t…

Does it work with standard HFS or do I need a dedicated "Plus" scsi drive formatted differently? Click to expand... Depends on the drive and the utility that was used to format…

using some of the lower System versions (say, System 3, with which it shipped, I gather) with an external scsi hard drive? Does it work with standard HFS Click to expand... Sin…

I was going to mention the Plus's lack of internal termination, but LCGuy beat me to it. Try to use a short SCSI cable to the first external device and made sure that the device n…

If you're going to use the hard drive with the Plus exclusively, you're best to format it with an interleave of 3:1, which you can do in Hard Disk Toolkit, or I'd imagine most 3rd …

The donor has found the keyboard, which I can collect tomorrow. There is ein Gott im Himmel, evidently.

As reported over on Conquests, I just have acquired my oldest Macintosh yet, a nice-looking Plus. Having (ahem) a plethora of peripherals in the perimeter of the Plus, I think I m…

Gott im Himmel! It's not worth real money, is it? And mine looks almost new.

I can report back that I what I collected today was more limited than originally anticipated, as the chap decided that he would keep most of his collection. The software I had hope…

Well aparently it is a dual-floppy SE box, though it is not the box that goes with my SE I also found out that it has a good PRAM battery in it :O P.S. Is there a version…

The Outbound Laptop Model 125 could use either the Plus ROM or the SE ROM. I think that all of mine use the Plus ROM. It would be interesting to see one which uses the SE ROM t…

Compacts rock! I love my 512k. My Classic 2... Eh not that much :lol:

Rise of the Compacts!

I have a Supermac STD-979o (Sony GDM-1950) that is listed as a 19" monitor (I think it is 21" with 19 viewable) and the only place I could put it without it crushing something was …

Uh, wow! I got an SE dual floppy 2 weeks ago - also my first compact! 8-o

an early 21" monitor with its matching Nubus card, Click to expand... Altho thats a cool score, ouch ... I snagged a early 21" hp monitor (with bnc's on the back) and the thing…

The velco strips could have been for one of those screens that keep people from seeing what you are typing (or for a paper holder that mounts on the side of the case). Click to …

Very good price. The velco strips could have been for one of those screens that keep people from seeing what you are typing (or for a paper holder that mounts on the side of the ca…

I finally got my first compact Mac today, a SE Dual Floppy :lol: . It came in a SE box, to my surprise, though unfortunately it is a SE SuperDrive box not a regular SE box. T…

I am told that later in the week I am going to be given a (dead screen) Mac Plus, a matching external HD, a IIfx in a Mac II case, a wide carriage ImageWriter printer, an early 21"…

except for a serial mouse. Click to expand... I've never known a Macintosh with a "serial mouse". Where does this mythical beast fit it to the picture? Click to expand... W…

except for a serial mouse. Click to expand... I've never known a Macintosh with a "serial mouse". Where does this mythical beast fit it to the picture?

On any list of dreadful Apple printers, the LW 300 will find a place... For drivers, you'll need to provide feedback about OS versions that you plan using. If you are running Syst…

I'd expect any SE/Plus ROM combination to fail. The significant differences between Plus and SE are ADB and PDS, although I imagine there are tweaks around serial and sound too. P…

Cool experiment though. Now we know for sure what happens. Click to expand... Yes. It makes me wonder if there is a pin incompatibility or a software one. I should have put th…