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PowerBook 190 strange behavior — #10

Finally had some time to look at this boy.  I tried Elfen's suggestion and scrubbed the board with alcool and a toothbrush, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. I also …
68kMLA Hardware by Sherry Haibara Sat, 16 May 2015 - 10:18

Damaged traces on IIvi - repairable? — #3

Hmm. How much would you charge for a recap? Are you reasonably sure that the caps are the problem or could I have put it back together wrong? heheh
68kMLA Hardware by rawkinghorse Sat, 16 May 2015 - 09:15

Damaged traces on IIvi - repairable? — #1

I posted this IIvi over on the trading post, but I figured I'd ask here about this specific problem. When it went away in storage about 10 years ago, the colours on the display we…
68kMLA Hardware by rawkinghorse Sat, 16 May 2015 - 01:22

Powerbook 5xx AC Adapter — #5

Ok, so it sounds like my basic idea will work. Good enough for me. I'll try it on the 520 I don't care about just in case.
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Thu, 14 May 2015 - 23:15

Mac OS 7.6 on PowerBook 1400cs/166? — #20

The Maxell 650MB CD-Rs came yesterday, as did the floppy drive and HDI-30 to DB-25 SCSI adapter. The PowerBook and the AC adapter are coming Monday (18 May 2015). I found the Clams…
68kMLA Hardware by tanuki65 Thu, 14 May 2015 - 15:02

2400C battery internal configuration? — #7

Techknight I have a 2400c battery apart and still intact!!!! I prepped it for rebuild eventually.. It just has the top cover nicely removed with little damage.. I will take a few p…
68kMLA Hardware by aplmak Thu, 14 May 2015 - 04:02

Powerbook 5xx AC Adapter — #4

I did dig this old thread up: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/7704-powerbook-520-power-pinouts/ Sadly all the pictures are gone, but it pretty much explains everything…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Wed, 13 May 2015 - 23:31

Powerbook 5xx AC Adapter — #3

I havent tried it recently. I vaguely recall screwing around with a generic power supply on a 520 long long ago when mine died. Back when I was actively dicking around with these m…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Wed, 13 May 2015 - 23:19

2400C battery internal configuration? — #6

the lighting is too dark, and the pictures are too blurry to make out anything useful, but its possible the PCB circuitry is similar/same to make heads and tails of my battery.  B…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Wed, 13 May 2015 - 23:18

Interesting IIc Find — #8

I remember that Applied Engineering Accelerator, Dr. Levinson  had it (along with many others), it was quite a card! I managed to get the RocketChip Manual off archive.org. The si…
68kMLA Hardware by Elfen Wed, 13 May 2015 - 04:40

SE/30 no internal SCSI — #7

External port traces run through the internal one first... except for one or two. I forget which.
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Tue, 12 May 2015 - 22:31

Interesting IIc Find — #7

My accelerated Apple IIe makes a higher pitched beep, though I believe Applied Engineering made documents available for writing software to be Accelerator Aware.  Ultima V, for exa…
68kMLA Hardware by olePigeon Tue, 12 May 2015 - 21:19

SE/30 no internal SCSI — #6

that is funny your external port works.  but the internal one doesn't.    Techknight knows dead scsi traces oh so well.
68kMLA Hardware by uniserver Tue, 12 May 2015 - 19:53

SE/30 no internal SCSI — #5

I would double check polarity on your caps, and then just retouch all the solder points once more, make sure everything is good.
68kMLA Hardware by olePigeon Tue, 12 May 2015 - 17:50

SE/30 no internal SCSI — #3

Yes I connected two different known good drives internally. An 80MB and 350MB. The drives are seen and will boot the system when I put them in an external SCSI enclosure and connec…
68kMLA Hardware by Aaron707 Tue, 12 May 2015 - 16:52

SE/30 no internal SCSI — #1

Hello all,  I recently recapped an SE/30 motherboard. I cleaned the board with a toothbrush and soap and hot water, let it dry for a week or more and then replaced the capacitors.…
68kMLA Hardware by Aaron707 Tue, 12 May 2015 - 05:52

2400C battery internal configuration? — #4

On the 3400c's lithium battery board, the black wire is the neg lead; red is the pos; the two white wires connect to tabs between the 2nd and 3rd and 3rd and 4th (I think) cells - …
68kMLA Hardware by raoulduke Tue, 12 May 2015 - 02:48
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