According to wikipedia... "AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the need for a centralized router or server of any sort."
Thanks for finding that! So in other words it looks like it was an early stage of being able to network Macs together so they could talk to each other. Interesting... 😀
"Chooser" refers to choosing printers/modems and other things that were on the serial bus. AppleTalk was a networking tech technology. I remember it worked with the Chooser, because I always had to fiddle with it when I wanted to plug two machines together. I don't believe there was a way to choose between boot devices. The internal drives got searched for a system folder that was "blessed" (ie: had the special System Folder icon), and then the externals, and used the first of those they found. So the way you booted up from an HD and then accessed the system restore floppy was you took the floppy out, booted up, it would find the only blessed system folder, and then after boot you put in the floppy. This is similar to the PC side, where it auto-booted from the A Drive unless there was no disk in the A Drive. I think the Minifinder was what you used if grandma needed to type letters but kept screwing up her Mac. I do not remember it from my LC II with System 7.
Thanks for the information on all of that. 😀 it’s nice to hear from someone who knows about some of those things that I had no clue what they were. Yeah I’m not super familiar with System 1-8. I’m more familiar with System 9 and of course OS X/ MacOS. I hope in future videos I’ll be able to explore some more in the old Mac OS’s.
Wow! I have a Mac SE that I'm half way to restoring. I'll prob have to do the SD card trick because i think the HD is dead. I wonder if i can revive the HD though first? Don't want to dump any more money into it.
Seems like the RIFA cap in your PSU blew. Not a big issue & can be easily repaired. Is there any internal damage on the analogue/motherboard from that 4.5v 523 battery leaking? You 512Ke is in great condition though... looks like it’s been freshly retr0brited. I especially like the Image Writer II & amazed that it still works.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking was it was a RIFA cap that blew. I didn’t feel safe opening it up at all though unfortunately (mainly because of the CRT) and it actually was one of my close family members computer’s. Yeah but the overall computer was is remarkable condition mainly because we kept it in a case in a closet it’s whole life. Unfortunately my family member decided to recycle it after it blew up (plus the disk drives weren’t working properly) however they let me keep all of the original accessories, software, and manuals. So at least I still have those. 😀 As for the battery it was the battery on the back that leaked (in its own housing). So no damage that I knew about at least happened to the logic board. I think however there was another battery on the logic board itself. I have no clue on the condition of that since I felt unsafe opening the computer up to look. I’m thinking down the road I’m going to buy another Classic Mac and “finish” out the video since I never got to look at some of the apps and what was on the disks. 😔 I was also amazed that the Image Writer II still worked too! Pretty cool to see something that old still print. I never realized it was a color printer until I started doing some research about it.
LoveTech I hope the recycling centre will save it & sell it on to someone else as it’s in A1 condition which is rare for a machine that’s 35 years old. The floppy disk drive just needs dismantled and lubricated... same was true of mine. I have a machine that looks identical but it’s a 128K upgraded to a Plus. Your accessories are worth a decent amount these days should you decide to sell. External drives are quite rare for compact Macs as well as the keyboards and mice. Good luck with finding another one... nice looking refurbished ones are rare but you’ll find one if you’re persistent enough.
When I heard the capacitor explode inside of the computer the computer itself seemed to continue to work. But due to the risks of radiation exposure I didn’t open up the computer to try and fix it.
According to wikipedia...
"AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the need for a centralized router or server of any sort."
Thanks for finding that! So in other words it looks like it was an early stage of being able to network Macs together so they could talk to each other. Interesting... 😀
"Chooser" refers to choosing printers/modems and other things that were on the serial bus. AppleTalk was a networking tech technology. I remember it worked with the Chooser, because I always had to fiddle with it when I wanted to plug two machines together.
I don't believe there was a way to choose between boot devices. The internal drives got searched for a system folder that was "blessed" (ie: had the special System Folder icon), and then the externals, and used the first of those they found. So the way you booted up from an HD and then accessed the system restore floppy was you took the floppy out, booted up, it would find the only blessed system folder, and then after boot you put in the floppy.
This is similar to the PC side, where it auto-booted from the A Drive unless there was no disk in the A Drive.
I think the Minifinder was what you used if grandma needed to type letters but kept screwing up her Mac. I do not remember it from my LC II with System 7.
Thanks for the information on all of that. 😀 it’s nice to hear from someone who knows about some of those things that I had no clue what they were. Yeah I’m not super familiar with System 1-8. I’m more familiar with System 9 and of course OS X/ MacOS. I hope in future videos I’ll be able to explore some more in the old Mac OS’s.
That's why you gotta remove the RIFA caps before using an old mac!
Yeah in hindsight I should have done that. 😟 Let me say that it was the worst smell in the world when that blew!
@@LoveTech4U yep
Wow! I have a Mac SE that I'm half way to restoring. I'll prob have to do the SD card trick because i think the HD is dead. I wonder if i can revive the HD though first? Don't want to dump any more money into it.
Seems like the RIFA cap in your PSU blew. Not a big issue & can be easily repaired. Is there any internal damage on the analogue/motherboard from that 4.5v 523 battery leaking? You 512Ke is in great condition though... looks like it’s been freshly retr0brited. I especially like the Image Writer II & amazed that it still works.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking was it was a RIFA cap that blew. I didn’t feel safe opening it up at all though unfortunately (mainly because of the CRT) and it actually was one of my close family members computer’s. Yeah but the overall computer was is remarkable condition mainly because we kept it in a case in a closet it’s whole life. Unfortunately my family member decided to recycle it after it blew up (plus the disk drives weren’t working properly) however they let me keep all of the original accessories, software, and manuals. So at least I still have those. 😀 As for the battery it was the battery on the back that leaked (in its own housing). So no damage that I knew about at least happened to the logic board. I think however there was another battery on the logic board itself. I have no clue on the condition of that since I felt unsafe opening the computer up to look. I’m thinking down the road I’m going to buy another Classic Mac and “finish” out the video since I never got to look at some of the apps and what was on the disks. 😔 I was also amazed that the Image Writer II still worked too! Pretty cool to see something that old still print. I never realized it was a color printer until I started doing some research about it.
LoveTech I hope the recycling centre will save it & sell it on to someone else as it’s in A1 condition which is rare for a machine that’s 35 years old. The floppy disk drive just needs dismantled and lubricated... same was true of mine. I have a machine that looks identical but it’s a 128K upgraded to a Plus. Your accessories are worth a decent amount these days should you decide to sell. External drives are quite rare for compact Macs as well as the keyboards and mice. Good luck with finding another one... nice looking refurbished ones are rare but you’ll find one if you’re persistent enough.
@@LoveTech4Uyour family member is an idiot. It was in great condition and this is a very easy fix.
These are very valuable now.
I met this situation many years ago. but my mac plus still can work. do you feel incredible??
Oh no that’s not good does it still work?
When I heard the capacitor explode inside of the computer the computer itself seemed to continue to work. But due to the risks of radiation exposure I didn’t open up the computer to try and fix it.
@@LoveTech4U radiation exposure? wtf are you talking about lol