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    MARCHintosh 2025 Projects

    Been tinkering with the Thunderscan 80’s contraption that turns your ImageWriter ii into a scanner. After opening the scanned image into Photoshop 1.0 (it can open Thunderscan format files) and saving out as a tiff and then sending it to my modern MacBook Pro by way of Fetch and BlueSCSI WiFi, I...
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Yeah I’ve done a few. It’s a painstaking process and then hit or miss if the salvaged electronics from another pack will work. I’ve had two that did not so far. Also the electronics vary between pack revisions. So if you wore up everything to one and the electronics don’t work you now need to...
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    And I think this was the closest matching filament I could find: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BD7GTXTB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Here's the battery cover incase you dont have an original or it doesn't fit with new pack.
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Here is my battery and I also made new back legs because one of mine broke. Please use for personal use only so I dont have to frown on you making a profit off my work on ebay 😏
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Yeah I have been wrapped up in designing an Atari 8 bit computer to laptop conversion I am trying to finish for VCF Socal so ive been deep into modeling that and my printer has been running non stop... The problem with the pismo packs is that darn curvy design is going to be a bit tricky to...
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    Recreating Macintosh Portable Hybrid Module

    You can get a new lead acid battery on amazon. I have a replica of the original battery case if you have a 3d printer and want to make one.
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Well I never made the 3d printable model yet but i ended up making two of them that worked out great using the existing case plastics I was able to pry open carefully. The get about 3 hours runtime. I need to electronics out of one to make one. if you want to send me yours I can crack it open...
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    BlueSCSI on Macintosh Portable

    Cool, glad it worked for you. I believe the newer BlueSCSI boards address the issue as well. The PowerBooks 100 series also need the fix.
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    I’ve rebuilt one pack last week (for me) and used one of the two out of 4 packs that I was able to crack open with minimal damage. The cells I am using are working great and are the actual mah they claim to be. I am getting up to 6 hours runtime on a charge. I have yet to model the geometry for...
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    Macintosh Plus - Trouble after doing SCSI Term Diode Mod

    And make sure all those connectors between the logic board and analog board are good!
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    Macintosh Plus - Trouble after doing SCSI Term Diode Mod

    For what it’s worth I did the diode mod a couple weeks ago on my Mac plus with 4mb ram and using a BlueSCSI V2 WiFi external and have had no issues with it at all. I think that when you did the mod it caused your board to pull a little more current and that finished off whatever was barely...
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    Fix for PowerBook BlueSCSI & ZuluSCSI locking up after Mac OS "spins them down"

    I found this a long time ago with my portable and then my pb180. It’s a timing issue when powering the BlueSCSI back up. I “fixed” it back then by jumping power from the floppy drive over to the BlueSCSI so when it wakes up it powers the BlueSCSI immediately before the machine tries to access...
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    Any interest in NEW Repro Lombard / Pismo battery packs?

    Delays… delays…. But it’s on the to do list.
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    Freshly Recapped Portable - RAM Faults

    Did this isolate where the bad ram is ? I need get my board out again and see if I can fix it.