The outer case to me looks perhaps a little yellowed but overall not that bad. They were beige from the factory (Pantone 453) so it's probably not that far off. Maybe just needs a …

I find that my 170's LCD looks just as good as my Portable's. (Well, they did three years ago, anyway; the last time my 170 was out of storage, and the last time my Portable worke…

Supposedly that's the industry's first active matrix LCD. It certainly beats the B&W LCDs Apple shipped in the early PowerBooks. It also represented half the cost of the ma…

(Performa 200) Click to expand... woot!

The reason Apple built the Classic line of Macintoshes was to corner the market on computers costing less than $1,500 USD. The problem with doing that is you end up releasing hard…

The only thing special about the SE/30 PDS video cards is that I happen to have three of them; odds are that one of them must still work. I also have a 20" Radius greyscale monitor…

But if you attach them to the back of the card, then the pinout is going to be in the wrong order ... Click to expand... The "flip counter-clockwise to match the Gamba drawings…

If it occurs at start-up, I'm guessing it's a hardware error. Looking at my book it seems that all the hardware errors are memory errors? Gonna guess at some problematic/dead memor…

Crickett, yes, I have powered every Compact Mac with every other compact Mac. Never for long periods, but simple mods in the power connectors allowed them to power on and function…

Lucky find, an original Mac.

I have no experience putting holes in plastic in a professional way. Click to expand... You need a Dremel tool. It's a relatively easy thing to do. A starter kit should be enou…

yuhong, I meant it's stunted in the sense that it did not improve on the SE/30, or the SE. Both Classics lowered the bar of what was expected from a Compact Mac. Crickett, yes, I …

http://68kmla.org/wiki/C/C%2B%2B_Programming_for_68k

I have at least one of these in my shed of random bits (pretty sure it is an Asante, definitely only has AAUI). I guess the theory could have been you only needed to buy a new tra…

Yeah, you have to admit, considering the time period, it's a pretty good looking screen.

this piccie Click to expand... MInd telling us exactly what cards you're playing with there? It'll make things a bit easier to follow. Machine Pin Sockets Click to ex…

I added a basic 68k programming guide to the wiki. Click to expand... Got a link?

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Gee, that LCD is nicer than I expected.

If I'm doing display alignment on a compact Mac, I find it easiest to cut a sheet of white paper to the correct image size. Just hold the paper up to the display and adjust the im…

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It is essentially a stunted SE/30, which has neither the same power or capacity. Both it and it's sister Classic were giant steps backward. Click to expand... Actually not dire…

This brings up an interesting question. By today's standards, there is really no point in owning a Classic II for any real work. It is essentially a stunted SE/30, which has neithe…

This site shows pics of a ST-NIC-VF, but a Rev C2 that has a more usual complement of ports: http://www.recycledgoods.com/products/Asante-MC3NB-Mac-Ethernet-Card-%28ST-NIC-VF%29.h…

My guess would be that this card is definetely an oddball model, for I too have never seen a card like this. Perhaps it was a card made for "OEM" purposes, where you'd get a machin…