Recent content by sunvalleylaw

Hi all! Relatively new guy here, joining only this last January, as I started to shop and acquire the beginnings of my vintage collection. Kinda went all out for a while, and now am slowing down and considering what stays and what goes long run. So the purpose of this thread, inspired by...

PS, I will be exhibiting an Apple IIe collection, with various drives and peripherals, playing Oregon Trail, my SE/30 doing MIDI music stuff with a connected keyboard, and my Beige G3 playing Myst and various Launch CD-ROM mags focusing on the CD-ROM aspects by that point in time. I may also...

Not ONLY Mac but Apple will be well represented. TVVCC.org which is fairly new, and replaces former defunct vintage computing clubs that included Apple, is full of some nice folks, and cool machines. I will be promoting this forum as well of course. And yes, they do have a discord. LOL! The...

Cool. I got the long Torx t15 from Amazon. and did get the iFixit more complete kit. I am personally trying to go eBay or other vendors instead, and they are available, but that is only my choice, and sometimes I cross that line. I am going to need to open up my working SE modded to SE/30 to...

Yeah, I bought some initial stuff at iFixit but stopped grabbing everything, as I thought I might be able to reuse some things and not buy new. I did get the magnetic mat thing, and will want to get a magnetic cup also. I am super bad about knocking cups of screws and things over when I work...

Thanks!

What we can't control: I just want to add that a good focus is to figure out what you can control, what you can impact, and what you have no control over. Discord, etc. exists and people use it. Can't control the first part. MAYBE our actions can impact whether people prefer to use it or not...

Maybe something from iFixit?

I think anything I do right now and might report on would seem uneventful and mundane to the more experienced here. I am that guy who never really opened his computer before other than to may be install some extra RAM once or twice. So re-capping, replacing CPU'S, installing IDE or SCSI...

Is there a basic kit one can get for computer and electronics repair with the most likely Torx heads, good spludgers, other prying type tools, etc.? I think I saw an iFixit kit mentioned somewhere, but wondered if there was a suggested one to buy or a list of individual tools one typically...

Ok, sourced at a somewhat reasonable price a Buffalo G3 Accelerator 500MHz PowerPC750 1 MB L2 Cache card to install and try out. Just got it and will need a few days to get to installing it, and plan on researching doing that sort of thing first before risking breaking anything. It will be my...

Yeah, that is not me, I joined the other one about the same time as this one. But yeah, glad to see folks on both platforms.

Seems like it works better to communicate more locally like the local Boise area vintage club. Probably less so as an encyclopedia of knowledge and lasting discussion platform.

There you are! Was looking to see if you were here. Will DM on our stuff! Folks, this was one of the deals that got lost for a minute, that I was in the middle of when things went down.

I wanted to give shout outs to a couple folks in particular, and I know I am missing a few more. @Volvo242GT has given me helpful advice and help on both forums, and his presence here helped cement my wanting to hang around, @JDW has been super helpful here and on Youtube via...