Hello Macintosh fans, My name is Emiel, I am from Holland (somewhere in Europe). The first time a have worked with a Mac was in 1987 at the graphic and printing school. I don't k…

Tempest and I made an agreement for him to send me 2 broken Mac II's (one somewhat gutted) in exchange for repair and recap of his IIfx logic board. I basically paid to have the s…

Yeah, recapping is pretty simple, just that there are SO MANY capacitors. I count 13 that I replaced with 47uF tantalums. Also, these are original Mac IIs, so they don't have a R…

Wow, I'd almost be tempted to leave it sealed!

They could go bad sitting on the shelf, but probably not if kept in a cool environment. Good luck with it. LC motherboards are pretty easy to recap, I still have a LC 3 I did if a…

I've had such rotten luck with getting a working LC motherboard, that if this doesn't work, nothing will. I call this a super conquest for me, even at $25. :beige:

The SE/30 got canned in Oct. 1990 after only being introduced in Jan. 1989 Click to expand... That was the published date. The SE/30 stayed on the books into 1991, in part beca…

I dont have a problem with buying batteries online, but only from certain trusted places, random google hits and ebay are just too loaded with half battery half led weight for me t…

I got 1990 issues of MacUser requested from the storage facility an hour ago, and should have them in 3 hours from now. Hang tight.

Turns out it was a bad HD cable. Replaced it, and it works great. The coolest thing about this is that it's actually a LC II with the official Apple LC 475 upgrade! Thanks everybo…

Hey now that *is* a good idea. I'll dig some of mine out and join you. On a wiki page would be best. And a scan would be preferable to a photo, where possible - but that can be …

Mac II's came with 800K DD. You might want to check the ROM SIMMs if the units do not chime, I have to clean mine in a pair of IIx's to get them working 100%. Recapping mac II's …

Ah, thank you for that insight. I hope I can find an online database that contains those magazines or if someone here has access to an issue of either publication around the middle…

You are quite welcome.

Ah, thank you for that insight. I hope I can find an online database that contains those magazines or if someone here has access to an issue of either publication around the middle…

One need only reference old MacUser or MacWorld magazines during that period to determine price and price stability from debut to EOL. I have those magazines at my parent's home i…

That's what I'm not so sure about. The SE/30 got canned in Oct. 1990 after only being introduced in Jan. 1989. I figure by May/June of 1990 Apple knew where they were headed with t…

Yep, still needed it! That's EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks a million, 'junky! Go ahead and button'er back up! Great idea posting a picI I'll do that for all the PSUs in …

*Looks at his Classic 2* *Decides not to reply*

Tempest and I made an agreement for him to send me 2 broken Mac II's (one somewhat gutted) in exchange for repair and recap of his IIfx logic board. I basically paid to have the s…

apple-history.com has $4,369 in 1989... presumably the price wouldn't have changed much by 1990.

Does anyone know what a basic SE/30 would have cost in the first half of 1990?

I just did last month. I got a 20mb SE with a 68020 accelerator installed and was trying to get it apart because the accelerator wasn't seated securely in the slot. I yanked on a c…

The only one I ever snapped was totally on purpose, with a hammer, while building the Macminitosh. Kind of fun, though! But I'm always afraid whenever I have to use some force…

I came very close on my Classic II while refurbing it. I am rather hesitant now to monkey around inside my Mac now unless I have no other choice...