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Thanks! I guess I could go your route and mount it on the drive bay; OR, make the leads even longer and put it on top of the space for a Bar Code between the sound chip and the PSU connector. I kind of like the idea of having the battery holder integrated onto the logic board.

I've come up with a solution that I think is pretty neat. Sharing here so that it may help others. Looking at the schematics, I had the theory that pulling the 3V from between the two batteries in the off-the-shelf 2x CR2032 battery holder would have the same effect as the original battery...

I happen to have one of these holders, and I'm not sure yours are different but mine actually has space for two CR2032s in serial = 6V. So it got me thinking: Can one of these holders replace both original 1/2 AAs? So tracking down the original Mac II schematics, at a glance the two batteries...

Thanks for the offer! Let me first see what state the computer is in before diving into trying out an experimental board. :)

As someone waiting for their first ever Mac II to be delivered, I would definitely be in the market for one of these battery boards if someone starts making them! In the meantime, I've ordered two regular 1/2 AA holders from retrofixes.com -- this product has worked great in my SE so far, and...

I've ordered one of these homebrew units. Will report back once it gets delivered from Korea.

You're welcome! Good RAM deserves to be used, not sitting in a box of spare parts in my closet.

At a related note, do you all keep the bottom RF shield installed on your IIc's? I tested all the contact points with the logic board, and everything seems to be grounded properly without the shield there. In my case, the shield itself is in good shape, but the paper sheet that insulates it from...

Thanks for the advice! This is what I assumed, but you never know what secondary purpose a component may have (such as the RF shield acting as the ground plane for SCSI/audio etc. in certain mid-90s Macs.) I had extremely low expectations for the quality of the IIc keyboard after hearing all...

I just ordered a batch of dodgy chips from China, but if you have certified good ones to spare I'd happily take you up on that offer! Let me shoot you a private message. Yesterday a quick googling led to MECC Computer Inspector as a diagnostics program that can help with RAM troubleshooting...

My IIc's keyboard comes with this dual layer of rubbery sheets inbetween the keycaps and switches. A lot of the 'mushy' feel of typing on the keyboard was due to this thing, and removing it made the tactile response from the switches significantly better in my opinion. Do you all keep the spill...

Great to see so much IIc love! I just got my first ever IIc delivered in the mail today, and I *think* it has bad RAM, although it's hard to say for sure due to ROM v255. Do you have advice on good replacement chips to procure?

After a bit more tinkering, making the port number configurable and cleaning up the code, I cut something I'd like to call a stable release of macproxy (off of my fork of course; I hope the original author don't mind) here: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy/releases/tag/v21.11 If you want to...

This book looks amazing. Ordered my copy!

Binary file downloading is now working as well, at least in Netscape 4.5 on Mac. I had to use a workaround with Flask sessions to retain the content-type header, which Flask always changes to text/html regardless of the original header. There may be some decorator or hook or something to achieve...

Figured out the easy way to get embedded images working! I tweaked the proxy logic to only modify the contents when content-type is 'text/html'. This way, any traditional embedded image (<img src="">) in traditional formats (jpeg, gig) work absolutely swimmingly on a higher-spec 68k Mac...

There, I pushed a few changes to my fork so that inline hyperlink URLs should now always be rewritten to the http protocol. It was just a matter of using beautifulsoup to modify the html in memory. I think this proxy is eminently usable at this point. The one major improvement I can think of...

There, I forked and improved the macproxy code a tiny bit to make it run with Python3 and venv (actually, very few changes had to be made.) https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy It's not consistently successful in translating all https requests to http. Some sites work fine, but others like...

Thanks for the tip, and while I respect what Sean has done here, I prefer to avoid messing with PHP if I can. ;) Will keep this one on the back burner for now.

So I've ran a few tests, and macproxy is close to being an excellent solution for very low-end machines, but it has two major drawbacks: For one, unlike WebOne is does not translate https requests to http, which means that any inline hyperlink on an https site will fail. You can still copy...