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Service videos for 1xx/2xx/5xx on ebay — #1

Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training Courses. This …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Bunsen Mon, 27 Jul 2009 - 02:46

Rip Van Winkle SE — #14

Is there any market for the machine in its present condition? johnboy Click to expand... I also have the original box she arrived in and all her diskettes - OS Install …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JRL Sun, 26 Jul 2009 - 15:16

Rip Van Winkle SE — #13

It’s great to hear you experts discussing what type of disk I should install, and esoteric (beyond me!) methods to prepare an Apple image to store on this disk, and many thanks for…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by johnboy Sun, 26 Jul 2009 - 14:26

7200 Hardware Chaos — #5

After a night of test installations today I managed to install a stable version of 9.1+ onto a 7200 with Sonnet G3/400/1MB L2/224MB RAM, ATI Rage, 1GB Harddisk and a TEAC CD burner…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by register Fri, 24 Jul 2009 - 20:06

Looking for a couple tips re: Mac Plus analog board — #13

Yeah stupid me, I meant tip. Some of the joints are quite small. Tomlee: Yes data suggests otherwise. I may actually be selling the Classic 2! I got an offer from Classic Mac 500
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mars478 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 - 16:10

Powerbook 1x0: nicest portables to work on, bar none! — #7

I always liked working on my PB 170 (when it was alive) but I absolutely abhored my PowerBook 190. That thing broke so often, it was not even funny. I lost my homework everytime i…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by coius Thu, 23 Jul 2009 - 08:13

Powerbook 1x0: nicest portables to work on, bar none! — #5

The only annoyance is finding the tiny torx screwdrivers > Click to expand... Not really. I just turn to the tray in which I keep all my special tools for working on com…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by equill Thu, 23 Jul 2009 - 03:07

Powerbook 1x0: nicest portables to work on, bar none! — #3

Without, in any way, contesting the ease of take-apart/repair in the PB140 and higher (I don't own a PB100), I feel obliged to advance the PB500 and PB1400 as coming out of the sam…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by equill Thu, 23 Jul 2009 - 00:24

Powerbook 1x0: nicest portables to work on, bar none! — #1

Hi, In a recent post I commented on having to strip down my Powerbook 2400c to replace a scratched/dim LCD panel with one I purchased on eBay for .99c many moons ago. I finally g…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Byrd Wed, 22 Jul 2009 - 14:37

Looking for a couple tips re: Mac Plus analog board — #12

Get the smallest soldering iron you can. Click to expand... I would offer quite different advice. To get this particular connector to solder properly requires a fairly robust i…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by joshc Wed, 22 Jul 2009 - 11:00

Rip Van Winkle SE — #11

The tape trick only tells the drive (and OS) that it is dealing with double-density media, and only works reasonably well if the disk has never, ever been formatted or otherwise wr…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 - 01:33

Rip Van Winkle SE — #10

Do you by any chance have a Mac running OSX 10.4 or earlier? By taping over the hole on a 1.44mb disk you should be able to make a fake 800kb disk and put Apple's image on there, t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by System6+Vista Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 22:34

Looking for a couple tips re: Mac Plus analog board — #11

Get the smallest soldering iron you can. Put a dab of new solder to get a nice shiny look on the solder. Just DON'T DO WHAT I DID. Make sure you have a desoldering tool, in case yo…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 21:27

Rip Van Winkle SE — #9

Do you by any chance have a Mac running OSX 10.4 or earlier? By taping over the hole on a 1.44mb disk you should be able to make a fake 800kb disk and put Apple's image on there, t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 21:08

Macintosh 512k & Macintosh SE FDHD — #8

The SE's over in the IT department at the moment. The IT systems administrator said it "bought back a lot of memories" so I let them keep it for the night.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by iMac600 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 07:37

Rip Van Winkle SE — #8

I'm willing to bet you have a MiniScribe hard drive. These drives were prone to failure in the first place and seem to be failing at an alarmingly high rate as of late due to age (…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JRL Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 05:44

Rip Van Winkle SE — #7

Do you by any chance have a Mac running OSX 10.4 or earlier? By taping over the hole on a 1.44mb disk you should be able to make a fake 800kb disk and put Apple's image on there, t…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by System6+Vista Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 05:35

Rip Van Winkle SE — #6

I'm willing to bet you have a MiniScribe hard drive. These drives were prone to failure in the first place and seem to be failing at an alarmingly high rate as of late due to age (…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Scott Baret Tue, 21 Jul 2009 - 02:53

Rip Van Winkle SE — #5

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JRL Mon, 20 Jul 2009 - 21:39
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