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Nick, Glad to see you made it over here. Thanks again for the 68040 chip. Still need to move the resistor on the bottom of my C650's board to turn it into a Q650 board. -John

A9M0106 arrived. Needs help. Gummed up, zero track sensor out of alignment, etc. Might even need an eject motor gear. IIci also arrived. Was said to be equipped with a blank hard drive. Nope, Has System 7.5.1 on its Quantum LPS105S. Floppy drive needs help, but less help than the...

Pretty much.

Looks like if the drive has a label with red writing on it, you want the yellow stripe cable (or one without a stripe). If it's with black writing on the label, it uses the red stripe cable. -J

If we can verify that the board doesn't charge the battery, another option would be a double AA holder with two Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries. Provides 1.8 volts per battery until death.

I found that when I was trying to get my Plus to boot a floppy that when I bumped the zero track sensor's board, it booted up without issues. Put the drive away for a couple days after testing the computer out, then decided to install it in the SE, so I could try to copy some files over to that...

Same thing with the later Sony MP-F75W FDHD drives. A stock 512 will consider it a 400K drive. A 512Ke will think it's an 800K drive. If the 400K drive uses a zero track sensor like the later drives, it might be worth trying to adjust it and see if that causes it to read a known good 400K...

At home. Phone's camera didn't like the 67Hz refresh rate, hence the darkness at the top of the monitor. Nice to finally have a monitor that doesn't have a greenish tint. It does need five of the seven feet that go onto the base, though. Plus a good clean. Next item to arrive will be an...

Thanks for posting this. Was able to get my SE's floppy drive, which has never read a disk in the time I've owned the computer to actually mount a floppy, albeit slowly. Still have some other adjustments to do before it reliably loads software, but it's an improvement.

Also grabbed this: Brother-in-law will be picking it up on his way home from Dillon, Montana on Monday. Got it for $63, plus tax off the 'bay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124901523368 -J

Interesting idea. Been using the meowTOAST adapter in my SE. Seems to be working fine so far. With an SE/30 board, it might have more clearance issues, since the battery is oriented perpendicular to the front of the case.

Soon to arrive, is an A9M0106 that looks to have been upgraded to a SuperDrive mechanism.

Likewise. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

^That one is the early Plus keyboard... Remember, Apple had both beige and platinum Pluses. The Beige Pluses had the same color keyboard as the 128/512 machines. @eric there is a guy in the Seattle, WA area selling a M0120 for $60 on OfferUp. It is marked local pickup only, though.

Not bad. The FDHD mechanism from the Classic will work in one of the Pluses, as an 800K drive. Was able to verify that my Plus worked fine with one that I'd purchased for my Centris 650. Same machine that @tafkar was selling as a parts computer on 68kMLA earlier this month.

Don't worry, not going to post the five pages of conquests that I've listed over at 68kMLA. Mainly going to list what I've received since late 2021, after I decided to make my //e useable again. Going back to November of last year: First conquest was a disk ][ for $35 from eBay seller...

Looks to be an older Pentium MMX based generic PC. Case is familiar. Father had one in the late '90s-early 2000s. Enlight branded case. His had an ASUS board running a Pentium 233MMX chip. Wasn't an awful machine. Much better than what replaced it (a Compaq Presario 7478 - aka a Crapaq)...

A bit early for Throwback Thursday, but, here's a really poor scan of a Kodachrome slide taken of my room at our old house in 1991... Computer was one of the Apple IIgs "Stealth GS" upgrade kit machines with ADB mouse, Apple 3.5 Drive, disk ][ drive, monitor ///, numeric keypad //e, CH...

Right now, the only vintage items I use with my MBP are my home audio components and speakers... The buit-in keyboard is decent enough, and the Micro$oft mouse works well. So, 1988-92 vintage Sony receiver and CD player, and a pair of 1985 vintage Infinity speakers. They are connected to the...

Another option would be to get another Sony CR-44 and recap it... I got lucky with my SE, in that it had the Sony supply in it. Saw a few CR-44 power supplies on the 'bay...