w/e - where am i going to find a better most likely irreparable practice board for pad repair... seriously though I tried a lot of stuff... is there any tip you can think of of how…

i wouldn't say its anything about skill level with this board... i would just say that working on it might not be healthy for one's sanity... that board is F'ed up man.

Fairly sure the pad repair is beyond my skill level.  Tried a bit tonight.  I'll have to clean it before/if I try again.

I just did this, I actually just popped it open with a screwdriver and radioshack sells a 6v 4.5AH battery that fits snugly into the old battery for 20 dollars...

I did not look close at connector. I may be wrong, but there may be two different style connectors. I know not all widgets are the same. Not sure on power. Also it may be an after…

Aha! I tried it on a widget drive I have (wrapped in plastic) and ...yes...it fits! Not sure what the power like cable is for. I see the widget drive needs a more complex power pl…

mactjaap said: OK. How rare are they in the Netherlands? No so. I see one for around 40 dollar offered. A genuine with two disk drives. http://link.marktplaats.nl/m922304692…

Great suggestions everyone. I'd like to dispose of the current cells so will open up, but I also have a replacement battery that is rated exactly the same as the original so may w…

For the Widget hard drive. Mac XLs usually came with a 10Mb internal drive.

In my Macintosh XL I found three cables. Two are for a disk, but not for a floppy drive. 26 holes in two rows of 13. Who knows what they are? And what is the white one? Seems some …

The image is even more clear now. I adjusted the image on the back of the PSU. Now the screen is crystal clear! View attachment 6314

So last night, I pulled the logic board board back out of the SE/30 to have a closer look for damage and ascertain it's general condition prior to sending it for a recap. I beleive…

Charlieman said: Don't give up with old batteries. The Portable uses a lead acid battery, which can be exercised, possibly to rejuvenation. Boaters know people who have batte…

can you take pictures of these main boards…..     So far all i am aware of, is the earlier Macintosh II boards with all Axial caps,   { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lig…

well heres an update, i finally got around to trying something on it.  I got out an old dell big crt monitor.  If i remember right it supported up to 1280x1024.  Anyway i hooked up…

After looking around for the 5mb LLF rom bin file I realize you already warned me about the two different chips on another forum, plus tested to confirm that you could not substitu…

I bought a Data I/O System 19 with Unipak that should arrive shortly.  It should go down to 2708s.  It's  a gamble.  I am also building an ME1702a programmer so I can do 1702a's to…

For years I ran a Mac 512Ke, Plus, and SE with system 6.0.4 floppies. I can search and look about for them but I no longer have 800K Disks to copy to. I need to hit up eBay for old…

techknight said: Not necessarily, I have seen the same panels used in older Pentium era laptops. I think I have one or two lying around somewhere.  Click to expand... Whe…

I like the mallet idea, but to date have done a few of these things by scoring along the seam lines with a knife or razor saw, then taping the thing back together to facilitate eas…

You should of mentioned. My Willem station can do 2716's...or I think I did. I don't immediately have at hand the SCSI card for my Lisa. Anyways, I can hold onto the chip regardle…

Yes you could do floppies but those are getting harder to find and my experience is that the fail after some time. My floppy collection probably looses 10% of its members every ye…

Actually CelGen, you did well, even if you can't use this one for your 10MB ProFile.  It is a collectible chip at least.   The two I bought I got in the $20 range also.  You just h…

I run system 7 on mine, just because made making floppies easier.

Recelling lol. That's what I get for typing this on a smartphone.