Recent content by SteveHere

I built one of those, too, great project. I really like the output from it...

Thanks for sharing that dougg3, I wish I would have known about that option before I started my design. But it's good to know that there's a couple of options out there now. Thanks for the tips YMK, I'm a beginner at PCB Layout but now that there's a couple of options out there including an...

My cable design didn't work. After many hours of troubleshooting I decided I needed to break down and buy one of the Apple cables to aid the process. I do have an original cable now, but so much time has gone by that I see someone's already produced a solution and is selling them on eBay. i...

Just to close the loop on this repair, at VCF Midwest I saw that Joe's Computer Museum had nice 3D printed vents... https://jcm-1.com/product/top-grill-replacement-for-classic-mac-128-512-plus/ I purchased one and installed it into my machine. My bucket is yellowed so it's not a perfect color...

I'm also a DaVinci Resolve user, but I'm an amateur user and a beginner. I used iMovie back in the day. Because of the depth of the tools in Resolve it's less intuitive, but that is countered by the massive amount of online tutorials and information about Resolve online, learning from video...

Thanks JDW! For those who are interested in the back story of the icons here is a talk from Susan Kare. It's been up on YouTube since 2019 but I had not seen it till recently and I quite enjoyed it...

Thanks to everyone that contributed in this thread. The Hard Drive in my portable died during VCF Midwest this year and today I was able to get it back up and running. It was locking on wake from sleep till I brought 5 V power up from the floppy drive per the instructions on page 3 of this...

I'm planning to be there and really looking forward too it. I'll have an interactive exhibit with a mix of Laptops from 1988 to 1999.

In case anyone tries this in the future, let me describe my observations here. I should clarify that I used a paint stripper heat gun on low, not a hot air soldering unit. Heating the plastic does indeed soften it, but the unsupported vent areas become flexible first. I've stopped before...

I'm working on fixing up a Mac 128K I found locally on Facebook Marketplace. The case is a bit rough, one of the top grill vents is mostly missing. I guess i never noticed before that these top vents are not one piece with the body of the bucket. So I'm thinking about using a heat gun to warm...

There was a book published in 1990 called "Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" by Larry Pina. It's an amazing book with practical steps you can follow for most Compact Mac troubleshooting. It's been a big help to me many times since @ScutBoy recommended it too me. You can find scans of this...

I quite enjoyed Andy Hertzfeld's book... https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Paperback-Insanely-Great-ebook/dp/B006BAW3N0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=revolution+in+the+valley+andy+hertzfeld&sr=8-1 and I also enjoyed this talk he gave about the early years before he went on the Mac project...

I had a great time at VCF Midwest. I had many interesting conversations and learned alot. Here's a YouTube short that RetroTech Chris made about my exhibit...

I quite enjoyed this real life interview with the developer and businessman that was published on YouTube in the lead up to the movie...

I was just working on a Mac Classic this week and had a similar symptom. I was reading in Larry Pina’s book “Mac Classic & SE Repair and Upgrade Secrets”. There’s a small Pot in the center of the Analog board for adjusting the voltage, look for broken solder joints and use contact cleaner on...