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:

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…

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 …

You are quite welcome.

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 …

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…

You probably no longer need it but here you go: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The r…

If someone would come and pick it up from my door, I would send it off into the world with a ribbon and bow attached. Right now it's taking up useful space. Click to expand... …

In other words, has anybody got a 6500 or a 6500 PSU lying around who could dig one out and post all the voltages and wattage for each for me? I need to adapt an ATX PSU to run the…

Did you try unplugging the floppy drive, the hard drive and the fan to see if it's caused by any of them?

I have an 1040STE with an external hard disk. I wish I could say I use it frequently, but it was sort of an impulse buy. Maybe when I get my music studio set up, I'll dust it off a…

In other words, has anybody got a 6500 or a 6500 PSU lying around who could dig one out and post all the voltages and wattage for each for me? I need to adapt an ATX PSU to run th…

If someone would come and pick it up from my door, I would send it off into the world with a ribbon and bow attached. Right now it's taking up useful space.

If the PRAM battery is good, then yes you have an issue with the motherboard.

Nice work Dennis!

I almost got that ST/ game console thing forget off hand what it was called, when it first came out, but I was shopping for a video game console and ended up with a genesis, other …

I use an ST Mega4 for older software which won't run on my Atari Falcon. Click to expand... Brother Atarian! I have a Falcon 030 but my best ordinary ST is a 1040STF. I'm tryin…

no not fully, yes its toast to joe user, it might be to you, to nerds it might be a interesting project to see what exactly is dead usual suspects, caps, corrosion (and or junk on…

My newest conquested LC 475 displays some strange problems. It refuses to power up, but with different working power supplies (one from my LC III, which works fine, and one from my…

being that large its not going to be anything mission critical (big farads = low frequency filter, or a really half hearted fudge of a timer) I have just been cleaning and sorting …

I have some 1,000uf 25 volt caps here, they were removed from a board, but that board was brand new and never used Click to expand... I'm not exactly sure if it's worth it. Th…