and I suggest you do some practicing, weather its taking apart some old electro junk or going down to radio shack and buying some random caps and a perf board, soldering and desold…

Trag sells new SE/30 tantalum capacitor replacement sets. http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4884 Info on replacing them is on the board.

Sorry, my bad, you need a long Torx T15. Here are some helpful hints from the Classic Mac Repair PDF: Obviously, it’s very dangerous to work on the innards of any line-powe…

Hi, This is my first time posting here... I've been a Mac user for a long time, and have a few classic systems in my collection that are running fine now, but I know that someday …

Thanks Guys (or Gals?) I had an brain-wave and tried the Norton Utility Emergency Disc - it booted beautifully (if painfully slowly), I asked it to search the SCSI network, and it…

The recycler in question wasn't this company, was it? http://www.recycleapc.com/ Parent company homepage here Looks like they host collection events... and actually, never mind,…

"go to places like Japan or Nigeria" Click to expand... Yes, I've noticed that the Wall St Journal always puts Japan and Nigeria in the same bracket. Perhaps the bloke should h…

What would be a method to figure out whether it was the recycling company or apple who made the decision? As the guy obviously hadn't cataloged the donated computers yet (all of t…

The issue here is not apple. It was most likely a lie. And that is going to just end up in china and be burned. Its the recyclers wanting MONEY per pound of "Junk".

Archived version of the same page Works fine for me.

The floppy disk is vital, and a X icon means that: 1: your disk has somehow gone bad 2: your floppy drive is dead (but I doubt it) 3: no bootable/corrupt System Folder on the di…

I doubt Steve gives a crap about 20 year old computers (that were built when he wasn't even at Apple at the time).

It means that the OS is corrupt or your HD has gone kaput. The Floppy disk could have also gone bad. Do you hear the HD spin up has it turns on?

Gentlemen, it seems this war has another enemy. Apple. They are making our mission harder. I think we should campaign. Email Sjobs@apple.com and DEMAND that the old macs be saved a…

Very good. I am on a campaign for a working compact.

Wow, nice SCSI cable hack! I wouldn't have been able to think of something like that. xD anyways, nice finds, and fair price for what you got! I've always liked the Macintosh SE/i…

Hi, For the first time in several years, I have unpacked my very old friend the Macintosh SE. We have moved house and I no longer have space to store her, so must put her up for s…

Hey, does anyone have the procedure to overclock the 6200 motherboard from 37.5mhz bus to 40mhz? Takashi's 6xxx overclocking site hasn't been around for awhile( http://www.bekkoam…

If you had another system with native IDE support, why didn't you just format it with that system in the first place? Click to expand... maybe because I have not thought about …

Thanks for the feedback crew, appreciate it. Dismantled the 512k today. Found some calcium marks from moisture along the base of the case, but thanks to Apple's design team thinki…

If you had another system with native IDE support, why didn't you just format it with that system in the first place? Click to expand... maybe because I have not thought about …

If you had another system with native IDE support, why didn't you just format it with that system in the first place?

FWB is the still not so free formating utility, right? To use this a few times a year, I'm not sure it is worth it! I used Lido for a while and it has been working fine. I heard a…

I'm on installing OS 8 on this machine. The HD utility in OS 8 does not recognize the HD as an Apple drive, so I used Lido again. Strangely Lido detects the drive as 78 gig, while …

There could be a less-sinister explanation: Some recyclers were actually just shipping off old computers to poorer countries, and it was an environmental nightmare. And it sounds l…