A solder sucker/desoldering braid isn't really necessary. A bit of solder wick placed over the solder and then heated up does the same thing - and for a lot less money.

Is the 40 MB 2.5 SCSI HD a Conner? If so, then those weren't very reliable and had a tendency to die, so I'm pretty sure the HD's toast. The reason why it has no SCSI power connec…

Is the 40 MB 2.5 SCSI HD a Conner? If so, then those weren't very reliable and had a tendency to die, so I'm pretty sure the HD's toast. The reason why it has no SCSI power connec…

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…

A 2.5" only needs +5VDC so that should be easy enough. You can get pinouts of drives at http://pinouts.ru/pin_HD.shtml I was just looking online and there are adapters available. …

Hi, I've looked at what I have, and I'm unsure how to follow this project. Let's see: I reopen my IIgs and looked inside it. There is no such thing as a way to get a 3.5" HD powe…

If you've never done any soldering before, I suggest you practice on an old junk board before taking to your Mac Plus board. It's very easy to apply too much heat for too long and…

to do it right you should remove and re apply fresh solder (and flux) if you just reflow you are adding alot of old oxidization and contamination to the joint, and it probably wil…

This thread deserves more photos... My "Redneck Repair" to the hard disk. Simple enough, when there's nothing to secure the drive in... improvise! In the great war that us 68k Mac…

Okay, I've read the famous PDF about classic mac procedures, and I'm pretty sure I need to fix the solder connections on the J1 connector. I'm a little unclear on exactly what to d…

Wow Great conquest! I love the Screen bezels on the 128/512k/plus. It looks like a tuxedo for some reason to me

I had a bit of time yesternight to look at the Apple Macintosh CD which is for the 7200, 9500 and a few other Macs. It's dated 1996 and says that it has System 7.5.3 on it. However…

Macintosh SE is together and running System 7.1, although i'd like to get System 6 running on there eventually. Macintosh 512k unfortunately now doesn't want to start at all. This…

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It's a coincidence that you mention that, because I've had the CD for years now and never could use the OS (just the assorted goodies like Gerbils and what-not). I have not tried i…

To be frank, I'd stick with System 7.1 and not touch System 7.5.3. Your Macintosh Classic II will feel slower with System 7.5.3. 50-pin hard drives (which your Macintosh Classic I…

next time that happens , run your finger along the top case of the TiBook. I have one that spazzes out every so often, and then with one finger running down the back of it, it'll s…

There's an electronics waste/collection place by my house, and every once in awhile, I check out what's in the dumpster behind the building. So far I've acquired a Netpliance I-Ope…

From memory the 750/750AV fixed a lot of the problems with the 1710/1710AV, and had an updated CRT with a slightly better dot pitch.

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays. Click to expand... It appears …

The 7200's were never popular and if I remember correctly(which could be wrong) they had some serious QC issues and bugs in the design. You are a brave man for trying to upgrade a …

If you want a copy of the original 7.1.2 for PowerPC, I think I just found my OS disc collection, and could image the disc for you. (Only the very first set of PPCs could run 7.1.…

Wow! My total CPU count has doubled in the past week, but my wallet remains at a constant size. 8-o First conquest: Power Mac 8100/80 from the library of a neighboring village.…

Progress is that..... a cd did become mounted on the desktop... at least, ones that boot automatically seem to mount, and after installing Toast I got one of my own burned cd's to …

… I have an external cd-r … but when I put a cd in the cd-r drive, it isn't mounted on the desktop … Click to expand... If the 840av is indeed the successor to/baton-carrier af…