Most thrift stores for some reason have this aversion to computers. Click to expand... While it is disappointing, I can understand why thrift stores don't want to sell computer…

Oops 5 1/4"

they have to be 5 1/4' diskettes Click to expand... Those are awfully big diskettes. } Yeah, I know. A typo.

Most thrift stores for some reason have this aversion to computers. Click to expand... While it is disappointing, I can understand why thrift stores don't want to sell computer…

Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that). Click to expand... The problem "seems" t…

just didn't know if there was a good Apple monitor from the mid-90's... Click to expand... Oh sure, there are some good monitors. Really, anything *EXCEPT* the MS 15" is good. …

And also this may be unecessary but they have to be 5 1/4' diskettes.

Any DSDD (Double-sided, double-density) disks should work. Click to expand... Exactly. Sectored-ness (hard or soft) is irrelevant in the Apple's case. Just avoid HD ('High De…

Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that).

My school still uses some G3 iBooks and I see this hapenning to them VERY soon... And I'll have to arm up with a heat gun. I was trying to fix the BGA by putting a small candle cu…

Very well written. Enjoy that machine.

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

I'll always love the iBooks though and look forward to the day when I finally have the resources to repair one. (I can do the BGA's on the GPU, just not that little sub-processor c…

I'll always love the iBooks though and look forward to the day when I finally have the resources to repair one. (I can do the BGA's on the GPU, just not that little sub-processor c…

I'd be trying another monitor. Seriously, as Gil said, the MS 15" displays were shocking, even back in the day. I bet if you try another monitor, you'll find that there is nothing …

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O Click to expand.…

Hi, Thanks JRL; I've actually been watching those for a while now. But from my research about these drives, I found that they will not work on my Macintosh 512k without speci…

Any DSDD (Double-sided, double-density) disks should work.

Mine's on its last legs, it's fallen apart and the solder joints have fractured numerous times... it packed up again today. However I still love the computer for the times it did w…

I counted 3 row of 40 pins which is a PDS connector, not a Nubus. So this would add an FPU to the IIsi that doesn't have one and allows one to keep the PDS slot for an ethernet or…

x2 cheap compatible 800k drives: Linky

JRL's right...its a right angle PDS adaptor board for the IIsi. While it will fit the SE/30, it would've originally been intended for the IIsi, as it has a FPU fitted. (the SE/30 h…

Most LC475/Quadra 605 machines use a pre-Intel CPU, which will make any video encoding painfully slow; at the very least get a machine with an Intel CPU, if you want to encode vide…

It is a Nubus angle converter for the IIsi/SE/30 if I remember correctly.

The Goodwill here rarely sells computers. However, one time I went there, they had tons and tons of them. Two Sun Ultra 5s, ~15 PCs, and ~5 laptops (including a heavily upgraded P…