You had better be sure that you make good use of that Mac Classic II! You'll have to use it for something useful, every day, to make up for that price!
I'm working on a fix for this, but how many users do we have here that have a Macintosh Portable with a drive that does not successfully startup? Typical symptoms include a spinup …
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Other plans for this unit:
- Replace ...
- Upgrade the ROMs to handle a 1.44 MB SuperDrive floppy drive.
- Install ...
- Eventually, ...
By the end of the restoration, I s…
The iBooks are always interesting; they take beatings well enough, which is good because they're such a horror to get into.
Great score, hopefully you can get the little bugger go…
Thank you for the photo.
There are a number of differences between the older and newer boards, so one need not be worried about the green wire soldered to the Xtal. Such wires ju…
Posted an Ad wanting cheap mac laptops and someone offered me a iBook G3 500 with 'some' damage. Well the screen is scratched (not cracked but scratched), the keyboard has duct ta…
I dark green on the pins of a few chips behind the serial ports, as well as blue/green on the chip directly next to the internal floppy port. Actually, I just looked at it, many ra…
The only dead motherboard I cannot revive (so far) by replacing capacitors is one from an 840av that has some gook under important chips. I can't tell from your picture how much co…
Well, after a through cleaning/drying to see if I can get it to boot temporarily it still does the same. I'm thinking even if I replace the capacitors that it will still be dead be…
Personally, if you've got a IIx, I'd leave it as a IIx if possible - remember, although the IIfx is much faster, if you upgrade it with a IIfx mobo, you'll have a IIfx, complete wi…
Such machine can be rescued by cleaning and drying, probably with some losses concerning the harddisk drive.
Never try to start a wet computer. Make sure the computer is disconne…
I just recapped my Classic II, a bit of a pain because everything is cramped but doable.
You need 3 different values, maybe 13 total aluminium capacitors going from memory.
Needs a proper restoration. Replace all caps on logicboard and analog board if you know what you are doing. Otherwise, let a professional do the recap for you.
Also, read this:
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