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Post #2 by techknight
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateWed, 14 Sep 2011 - 03:09
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-mac-plus.23839/
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They are supposed to, but at the same time, that particular goodwill may not follow that rule.

But i live near the main headquarters in woodlawn ohio, and i go there frequently. They NEVER have anything vintage. and thats when i found out about the recycling thing they do.

However, the funny thing is, I did see an older airking vintage TV from the 1950s there. Shoudl have grabbed it but i didnt have a truck. The only time I ever saw something like that.

Another time I saw a bally video poker casino machine, a REAL one. which at the time gambling was illegal in ohio so i dunno how it ever made it to the floor, it had an argosy casino tag on it, but I grabbed it, $40 I couldn't pass it up. it didn't work but i fixed it plus i had to do some minor repair to the hopper control board to get it working again. But it did power up to scrambled pixel display, CPU wasnt booting so the display was picking off random garbage out of the RAM. Turned out to be bad connections on all the ROM sockets/CPU socket. after that, worked fine. Only bug I have to work out now, is the lights dont work. none of the button lights or the attendent tower light. Power is going to the lamps, but there is a logic IC along with a triac assembly that runs the lamps, they are individually addressable. No light is working unless i physically enable the triac by hand. So the logic circuit is at fault, just havent had time to do much.

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