Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that).

It arrived today and It works, battery holds some form of a charge and it's in nice condition. :O And it's time for some Nixification. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! Already have …

splotchy outcome on some projects Click to expand... My 3) When using the gel form... addresses that. And if you use the liquid form with 3% H202, you won't ever have splotchi…

Eh, I think I'm actually going to take a chance with Debian (maybe NetBSD), I heard some bad things about Ubuntu regarding updating. But I would like to know whether to use lenny, …

2 things have kept me from using retro bright 1) the specialty H202 2) the splotchy outcome on some projects #2 can be dealt with by keeping on top of things and using a less st…

For the skeptics and hold-outs... CAN RETROBRIGHT REALLY MAKE PLASTICS BRITTLE? Let's think about it logically. How can cleaning the surface (0.1mm worth?) of a piece of plastic…

I like the T-shirt it is the one from the Apple T-shirts book "Why do people love Macintosh?" "Just ask!" 

I am still worried about whether this method will make the plastics brittle, or has some other long-term consequence which no one knows about yet. When it's been 2-3 years with no …

Mac128, I went with the 3% Oxydol over-the-counter stuff with "basic stabilizers." I determined that those stabilizers were pretty much the same as what are found in the US grade …

Great job - and great photo gallery, very detailed and instructive for others to follow easily. Thanks!

The folks behind "RetroBright" are all good people, but they use concentrations of H202 that are just beyond reason. ... you only need cheap, drug store 3% peroxide to do the job, …

JDW, I saw your pics in my 68kmla flickr pool's RSS feed last night, and they're incredible! This is really a great job, with stunning results. Thanks a lot for sharing. Your pictu…

That was just what I was looking for! Thanks!

I don't have any pics, so I'll try to be as descriptive as possible. Looking at the back ports with the lid off, the "Hi" ROM (341-0662) should be in the slot right below the batt…

Thanks JRL. I managed to find the message he sent me (finally) and turns out it was the 68851 PMMU he was after, not the 68881 FPU

Would somebody happen to have the LC III motherboard layout? My LC III was shipped to me without the ROMs installed and I need to know the correct position of the ROMs so hopefully…

I believe it was IIsi?

JDW, I saw your pics in my 68kmla flickr pool's RSS feed last night, and they're incredible! This is really a great job, with stunning results. Thanks a lot for sharing. Your pictu…

Folks, I did all the work this past Spring, but it took me until now to upload the photos to my Flickr account. Simply put, I used both liquid and gel versions of RetroBright on m…

Ah, ISTR someone wanted one for an original Mac II, the only machine that can use this one.

http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk/Old_SCSI_HD_Utilities.sit Use Lido (in that package, along with patched HD SC Setup) to format your hard drive. If you need help with that pac…

Yeah, I ran ubuntu desktop as well as debian etch or lenny (or both?) on my A21m and it was perfect, nothing needed any special setup. Both of those keyboards and the A21m are nice…

If you're comfortable opening the iPod, check the Firewire connector to see if it has broken solder joints. I seem to recall that was an issue with those older models. I havent re…

Yeah, the 701c looks great but I'm not too interested in it for a few reasons, the biggest of which is that my entire pre-P3 thinkpad collection went to _K. [] ]'> The nex…

The 701c butterfly is the one most colletors want in the 7xx series, and the ones that you see are mostly beat and expensive. If I come across one cheap I will probably snag it but…