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…

I've got the RAM card and modem card also. Tomorrow when I'm out of town I'll try to get that new PS and see if I can resurrect it.

Seconded on the carry case, and I wouldn't mind having a set of manuals either. Click to expand... Actually, the black carry-case I've got! I was talking about the Case Plastic…

And that also brings up another thing. i could make a small little lightweight app you could run that would set the hardware to boot from the 64k rom or 128k rom. because if i use…

There used to be a utility called Test Pattern Generator that had some great patterns built in. However, a ruler in MacDraw works well too if you're looking for accuracy of inches.…

not to mention very expensive on some of those caps. but WARNING. you cant just go out and replace your caps with just any caps, need to do some research on the known "good" capac…

Most of the analog board caps are of the larger size variety, and as a result, most of the time you can get away with good system operating without swapping them out. My SE/30 has…

Well, that's got me thinking of what I might get up to one cold winter night next year.... Click to expand... What's "THAT," bc? What's so special about the SE/30 Graphic Card…

Are there are caps on the analog board that one should consider replacing as well even if they aren't leaking at this point in time? I love my Classic II for purely sentimental re…