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How did they package it? Was it just wrapped in bubble wrap, or did they use the expanding foam blocks? Either way if I were you I'd consider filing a claim with Buyee about it.

What's the story behind those IIci's?

When you originally purchased the machine, which "plan" did you pick? The default is the "standard plan" which includes shipping insurance and product inspection (when the item arrives at Buyee's warehouse). If you picked that, or the insurance-only plan, then if the machine is damaged when it...

Here's my experience ordering a Color Classic using Buyee from earlier in the year: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/a-beige-mac-international-shipping-holiday-miracle.642/ And if you're worried about a lack of status updates, it was Golden Week in Japan so many businesses were closed.

IIRC machines from that era still used analog audio passthrough from the optical drive. You should have a separate, smaller ribbon cable between the optical drive and motherboard for this. I'd definitely suspect there's something wrong with the audio circuitry on the drive itself if other sounds...

Applefritter has a Hotline server as well: https://www.applefritter.com/content/university-misfire I have fond memories of using Hotline (and Carracho) on the Blue & White G3 at my job in 1999 on a 128kbps IDSN connection. Lightning fast compared to the 33.6 modem at home!

The Outbound Laptop Mac clones from the late 80s have an interesting feature called the Silicon Disk. It's basically a RAM disk, but uses dedicated SIMMs that aren't shared with system memory. As long as the Outbound has power, it will preserve the contents of the Silicon Disk, even if the...

Apple needed to include at least an external SCSI port so users could attach peripherals, as FireWire wasn't around at the time. Since that meant including a SCSI controller, it would cost practically nothing to include an internal SCSI bus as well. Switching the CD-ROM and Zip interfaces to IDE...

I mean, it's not an impossible task, but the service manual assumes you're performing the adjustment with the system powered on (so you can watch the image change). One could instead do the adjustment iteratively, where you power down the machine, discharge the CRT, adjust it a little, then...

Fixing a rotated screen image involves physically turning the yoke assembly at the rear of the CRT...I don't think the circuitry from that era supported rotating the image in software. The procedure is documented on page 129 of the Color Classic service manual. Doing the adjustment requires more...

My two cents: Since leaking capacitors can cause damage, replacing them -- even in a rare or historically significant machine -- would be considered an act of preservation.

Managed to find some answers. The RJ-11 keyboard cable is officially called the "infrared bypass cable", though I still haven't found a pinout. The mini-DIN jack is for an optional mouse that Outbound sold, which was *not* ADB, and could share the keyboard's IR connection to the main unit. The...

If not for an anti-glare filter, then my guess is it's for one of those copy arm things.

1. The keyboard can work either over infrared, or with an attached cable. The keyboard has two ports, an RJ11 (with matching RJ11 on the Outbound itself), and a mini-DIN. What's the pinout of the RJ11 cable? And what's the mini-DIN for? 2. You could get the Laptop with either an internal floppy...

That store was in the same location in the mall for close to 20 years. I remember getting a chuckle when Microsoft opened a store directly across from it, and also showing up at like 8am one day to watch the simulcast of a keynote (probably in 2003). A couple years ago the store moved into a...

I definitely agree with the ego aspect. Growing up we had a 575 as the family computer, and only upgraded it to 12MB total. We never had problems due to limited RAM after that, and that's with using the machine for actual productivity (as opposed to the goofing around we generally do with our...

In case you don't have them, it looks like the drivers are still available for download from Logitec's site (Google Translate link): https://www-logitec-co-jp.translate.goog/down/soft/if/lubsc.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp They list OS 9 and OS X drivers, but they...

Back in the late 90s, after buying an iMac DV, I picked up an Entrega-branded USB-to-SCSI adapter so I could keep using my Zip drive and scanner. To say that the adapter was flaky was an understatement. I could never determine whether it was hardware or driver related (honestly, probably both...

My experience is that the LC 5xx (and Color Classic) need FPM. Interestingly, while the Apple Developer Note for the 575 says that modules need to be 80ns or faster, it doesn't offer much else in terms of specifications beyond mechanical drawings and pin assignments. The 575 service manual...