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I recently recaped my two MoBo’s with tantalum caps. Although my soldering skills are amateur at best MoBo’s are working with some problems I mention below. I a…
· 10 posts · started 24 Nov 2008 - 09:28 · last 11 Sep 2012 - 01:00
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I am trying to fix an iMac "Core 2 Duo" for a friend. The hard drive is making the "click of death" but also there is no video displayed on the screen. Not a fl…
· 7 posts · started 24 Jul 2012 - 03:33 · last 10 Sep 2012 - 12:29
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How rare is an Apple III Monitor, I had one in storage and got it out for the first time in years. Its in really good condition and works great. Any idea of the…
· 6 posts · started 17 Mar 2011 - 23:49 · last 10 Sep 2012 - 00:50
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I was lucky today, taking some rubbish to the trash, i did found some freebies in a waste skip: A set of 3 Palm handheld V series ( Two V's and one Vx) I alread…
· 18 posts · started 20 Aug 2012 - 20:09 · last 9 Sep 2012 - 14:18
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Macintosh IIfx - 200Mb HDD - 16Mb RAM - Superdrive (auto-inject) - Apple Macintosh II display card - 3Com NIC card - One PRAM battery leaked, cleaned but not ye…
· 19 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 19:04 · last 8 Sep 2012 - 10:01
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I have acquired ...Yet Another SE/30. It was an eBay item for less than $60, shipped, which I thought a respectable price for a decent SE/30 with a classic case…
· 1 posts · started 7 Sep 2012 - 05:07 · last 7 Sep 2012 - 05:07
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So my family used an iMac G5 as our one and only computer for many years. In fact, my mom bought it like a week before the intel macs came out (even though she …
· 12 posts · started 23 Jul 2012 - 21:23 · last 7 Sep 2012 - 01:03
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Hi, I'm working on reviving an old SE/30. I've got it to the stage where I've had the motherboard recapped and am running on a SSD drive, however I have one big…
· 34 posts · started 29 Aug 2012 - 21:28 · last 7 Sep 2012 - 00:49
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I have an opportunity to buy this: http://postimage.org/image/bxfnot9c5/ $150 for the card. I did some Googling, and apparently the 3-1-90 ROM is the one to hav…
· 2 posts · started 6 Sep 2012 - 03:03 · last 6 Sep 2012 - 16:17
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Finally got my macbook. conquestish since it was $100 and in amazing condition and works perfectly. early 2007 so it's *just* meets the 10.7 cutoff, once I upgr…
· 12 posts · started 11 Aug 2012 - 15:21 · last 4 Sep 2012 - 22:27
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Picked up this one for 10€. This is so far being untested for. - PowerMac 9600 300Mhz - Missing CD-ROM drive plastics - ??? RAM - 4 GB ?? HDD - USB-card - Firef…
· 6 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 18:59 · last 4 Sep 2012 - 11:57
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- Macintosh IIci (no hdd, all ram slots filled, no cards) - clean. Added 500Mb HDD and Daystar FastCache-card from my broken down Iici. - AppleCD 300e (clean) -…
· 3 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 19:00 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 08:03
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Macintosh IIfx - Clean outside, not much yellowing. - PRAM batteries changed. - 8 Mb RAM (8 x 1 Mb SIMM) -> NEED more RAM for this baby <- - 5Mb H…
· 3 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 18:57 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 05:13
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Well, none of it is particularly inspiring however it's a conquest none the less... On my way around to my Sisters house (visit for her B'day) and spotted a lon…
· 13 posts · started 21 Aug 2012 - 13:27 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 04:07
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Dumped the IDE hard drive results this morning. CF was done a couple of weeks ago. Graphical: Text version: CF worth it? Oh heck yeah. No sounds whatsoever. Fee…
· 6 posts · started 1 Jul 2012 - 20:14 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 03:46
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Waiting this to arrive early next week, should be better than the one i had before. PowerBook 170 - No PSU, PowerBook 100's PSU works with this luckily. - HDD w…
· 1 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 18:58 · last 2 Sep 2012 - 18:58
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Does anyone remember the company Throwboy? They make a bunch of pillows with icons and have a set with Mac icons? Well, earlier this year, they had a pre-sale f…
· 4 posts · started 1 Sep 2012 - 01:10 · last 1 Sep 2012 - 05:20
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Another addition to the Macintosh squadron, one that was nearly lost. It's a MacBook (Mid 2010) White Polycarbonate Unibody that almost met its maker earlier th…
· 6 posts · started 27 Aug 2012 - 15:00 · last 29 Aug 2012 - 14:17
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I made it clear that I had no intention to continue collecting Apple hardware. However, I've also gone on the record as stating that I am quite the fan of the C…
· 2 posts · started 27 Aug 2012 - 10:09 · last 27 Aug 2012 - 15:41
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I have never soldered anything before. I have spent some time lurking these forms, reading recap experiences. I watched a few youtube videos, and read a few web…
· 17 posts · started 14 Jun 2012 - 13:41 · last 25 Aug 2012 - 21:53
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This machine is new to me, from eBay. The screen seems to flash between full and half height, and the image ghosts in both halves (upper hal and lower half). Mo…
· 3 posts · started 23 Aug 2012 - 04:34 · last 23 Aug 2012 - 13:11
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Dear, I bought an old SE/30 for server-purposes, but sadly it has a video problem. I see only a fine horizontal line. The vertical sweep circuit on the analog b…
· 5 posts · started 21 Aug 2012 - 09:03 · last 23 Aug 2012 - 11:19
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The Powerbook came with 14mb onboard and a GOOD battery. Yes, I can walk around with it and not need to plug it in for about an hour. b: { "lightbox_close": "Cl…
· 1 posts · started 21 Aug 2012 - 07:19 · last 21 Aug 2012 - 07:19
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I was on a fleamarket in our capital (Brussels) this morning and saw a powerbook lying around. I asked the price and the guy said 20 euro. I was able to haggle …
· 14 posts · started 24 Mar 2012 - 23:32 · last 18 Aug 2012 - 13:56
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I have a monitor //c. It's nice and bright and works really well except for the fact that there is a slow rolling, horizontal wave that sweeps from the bottom u…
· 2 posts · started 15 Aug 2012 - 22:29 · last 15 Aug 2012 - 22:39
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