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Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #6

How about Quadra 840av schematics? I have not one, not two, but THREE dead boards I'd like to get working someday. And anyone asks, yes, they've been recapped and washed. There's…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by CC_333 Fri, 15 May 2015 - 01:20

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

Classic II hard drive broken — #2

maybe its got the stiction? maybe you could try this? https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=263 other wise you can get a SCSI2SD for it.  I would say the Classic II is w…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:25

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #3

as far as i know all he has is a PC,   He gets boards in and does the R/E and then sends them back. The Color Classic Mainboard and the Classic II main board are ones i sent em,  …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:20

Classic II hard drive broken — #1

I have a recapped classic 2 mobo with an 80mb hard-drive. I plugged in the hard drive, turned the mac on and booted from the system 7 disk utilities floppy. Once the reformatting w…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by bman12three4 Thu, 14 May 2015 - 22:05

Finally color classic and classic II schematics! — #1

BLOB is definitely retired from reverse engineering and schematics! hasn't worked on a board in over two years. But I called him up and asked em very nicely and he said that he wou…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by uniserver Thu, 14 May 2015 - 17:02

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

PowerMac G3 All-in-One, iMac G3 - Same Symptoms — #17

It's by no means a Lisa or 128k level of special to me, so I'll more than likely go for the LCD transplant route. Make the machine so much lighter, easier to move, and a tad more p…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by notcrazy_iminsane Tue, 12 May 2015 - 16:55

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
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