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Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #11

The very first time I took apart an iBook (also to replace the hard drive) and put it back together, I put one of the long hex screws in the middle, instead of the short one. Cl…
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 12:59

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #10

The very first time I took apart an iBook (also to replace the hard drive) and put it back together, I put one of the long hex screws in the middle, instead of the short one. Cl…
68kMLA Hardware by protocol7 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 12:52

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #9

I got it put back together. Only 3 extra screws. That's pretty good for me. :I :I :I :I :I :I :I :I Click to expand... Well done! I had 4 left over after replacing the…
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 12:14

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #8

I got it put back together. Only 3 extra screws. That's pretty good for me. :I :I :I :I :I :I :I :I Click to expand... Well done! I had 4 left over after replacing the…
68kMLA Hardware by protocol7 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 12:09

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #6

I know, I know, I'm going to hell. But it works. It's also non-permanent, if I have to go in later and fix it for real.
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 09:51

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #5

If that's the case, no amount of glue will fix the damage - you'll have to strip the iBook down more to resolder the pads. JB Click to expand... If the pad is lifted off - so …
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 09:23

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #3

The speaker cable isn't superglued in, it just clicks in with a tight fit (male connector). I've done the same as you - but in my instance just the red and white cables came out. …
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 09:12

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #2

The speaker cable isn't superglued in, it just clicks in with a tight fit (male connector). I've done the same as you - but in my instance just the red and white cables came out. …
68kMLA Hardware by Byrd Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 09:08

Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #1

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68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 08:54

Duo Dock ethernet troubles — #6

both do the same thing. I tried to run the hardware diagnostics and it just locked the whole machine up. hmmmm.... I copied the ethertalk extensions and overwrote what was alread…
68kMLA Networking by JRL Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 06:47

Macintosh SE with Radius Accelerator 16 — #3

Worth it for the Radius card alone. Click to expand... Concur! The 800k SE/Radius16 was my main production machine and I ran it constantly, the '16 has an onboard FPU and a dau…
68kMLA 68k by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 05:16

Duo Dock ethernet troubles — #5

both do the same thing. I tried to run the hardware diagnostics and it just locked the whole machine up. hmmmm.... I copied the ethertalk extensions and overwrote what was alread…
68kMLA Networking by techknight Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 04:07

Lead on some older hardware — #5

Gott im Himmel! It's not worth real money, is it? And mine looks almost new.
68kMLA Peripherals by beachycove Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 03:36

Command key stopped working — #1

I just got a PowerBook G3 Lombard yesterday, and everything worked fine, but as of today, the Command key no longer works. I tried resetting the PRAM - but it doesn't work, cause t…
68kMLA PowerPC by Gil Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 03:30

Lead on some older hardware — #4

I can report back that I what I collected today was more limited than originally anticipated, as the chap decided that he would keep most of his collection. The software I had hope…
68kMLA Peripherals by beachycove Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 03:27

SCSI harddrive for my LC III? — #13

I'll try to get the one w/ 22 disks. the cool thing bout Zip disks is i have a usb drive already.
68kMLA Hardware by macgeek417 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 01:11

SCSI harddrive for my LC III? — #12

um... zoom waaay in on the pic, its a paralell drive Click to expand... Oh right. I see that now. Sorry about that. Here's one of the aforementioned Zip Plus drives with 22…
68kMLA Hardware by JRL Thu, 24 Sep 2009 - 23:29

ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #26

For those bidding on this Mac - it isn't a Hyperdrive. I asked the seller for a close-up of the front and it's actually the Macintosh badge from the back of the machine. Click …
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 - 20:35

Duo Dock ethernet troubles — #1

I have a Dayna Daynaport E/II-T ethernet card inside a duo dock, and the system 8.1 thats on my duo will NOT see the card natively. does it require a special driver? and where do i…
68kMLA Networking by techknight Thu, 24 Sep 2009 - 20:34
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