I have been performing a recap on a LCIII, the board was pretty clean and capacitors were not completely shot, and most of all even if it was not tested before, the owner just advi…
The acetone+alcool combination seems to have produced some effect, but I'm not sure if this is to be interpreted as a positive progress or a bad sign.
Apparently, the system now *…
68kMLAHardwareby Sherry HaibaraSat, 16 May 2015 - 12:24
well there is only 8 caps to change on there so it wouldn't be a ton.
couple things to try first though.
1. double check your monitor is working, those are dying from bad caps no…
68kMLAHardwareby uniserverSat, 16 May 2015 - 10:51
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 …
68kMLAHardwareby Sherry HaibaraSat, 16 May 2015 - 10:18
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…
68kMLAHardwareby rawkinghorseSat, 16 May 2015 - 01:22
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…
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…
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…
68kMLAHardwareby techknightWed, 13 May 2015 - 23:31
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…
68kMLAHardwareby techknightWed, 13 May 2015 - 23:19
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…
68kMLAHardwareby techknightWed, 13 May 2015 - 23:18
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…
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…
68kMLAHardwareby olePigeonTue, 12 May 2015 - 21:19
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…