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Having the bottom side populated is, IMHO, the bare minimum -- the parts cost is negligible and if you do a sufficiently large production run then the setup costs are pretty low. The SE/30 Reloaded batch I had made also included some of the top-side SMD parts, and each board ended up costing $73...

Was that just for plain PCBs or populated ones? My 50 SE/30 Reloaded board group buy batch came to about $3200, and that included the bottom and most of the top SMD parts populated.

I'm probably going to have to recap the screen on one of my 1xx series PowerBooks. It has those weird sideways electrolytic caps with rectangular enclosures, with both leads coming out one end. There aren't any modern elecrolytics that are close enough in size or value (3.3uF, 35V), but ceramic...

You might have done so already, but try reaching out to Mouser. They may still be able to get a few -- apparently the part is being discontinued, but there may be some left in the supply chain. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/NXP-Semiconductors/MC88916DW80?qs=WhRErS6oET%252BCZr2YQaNLxw%3D%3D

I'm not aware of any distributors in France that stock the part, but if you're willing to import one, here's a direct replacement: https://www.peconnectors.com/sockets-pga-cpu-and-memory/hws1788/

I presume you mean to probe the legs of the PLCCs themselves while in their sockets? This is an interesting thought -- the chips seem to snap into the sockets pretty firmly, but I suppose it's quite possible a few legs aren't making a good connection. I just ordered some pin probes for my...

I've made significant progress in building my SE/30 Reloaded board. Unfortunately, all I'm getting out of it is a Simasimac. There's no chime at all from the speaker/headphone jack, except for a quick pop when I power the machine on. Here's what I've done so far: --Tried multiple known-good ROM...

Sure would be interesting if a copy of the disc ended up on the Internet Archive...

Did you buy the BlueSCSI as a kit, or preassembled? Are the terminating resistor packs installed? (Take a photo of the BlueSCSI and upload it here if you're not sure what those are, or if they're installed correctly.)

Yeah, I think the approach at this point is going to be throwing the daughterboard in the ultrasonic cleaner. I *might* be able to get the DC side of the main board in there too if I'm lucky. The PSU came to me with the through-hole caps already replaced, and I suspect there wasn't much cleaning...

I was handed a pair of IIsi power supplies to try to fix. One of them was easy to get working again, but the second is being stubborn. It's been fully recapped (including the SMD caps on the daughterboard), and it's producing the 5V standby rail. A known-good IIsi won't power on with it...

Short sleeve is my preference -- basically, just take the designs for the sweatshirts and offer them on black/dark grey short-sleeve T-shirts.

I'm hoping that T-shirts are also planned to be offered at some point?

I don't have a Classic II board handy, but looking at some photos it appears that the positive pad for C6 hits a nearby via and likely connects to a SMD resistor on the bottom of the board.

IIRC there's a hole in the bezel behind the badge, you can push a tool through to pop the old badge off.

Looks like the trailing / got dropped from the link, interesting that it's required. I've edited my post but it's the same link @pocketscience posted.

If the ROM SIMM slot is trashed and the PotatoFi clips aren't helping, you can buy a replacement here: https://www.peconnectors.com/sockets-pga-cpu-and-memory/hws1788/ Be warned that you'll likely still need to use the PotatoFi clips, as most reproduction ROM SIMMs are slightly too thin.

If you're looking to recap the PSU from your Quadra 700 and/or you have a Mac with an Astec AA15831, here's the complete list of all the electrolytic and film safety caps. For convenience, here's a DigiKey list of everything you need: https://www.digikey.com/en/mylists/list/X1H5MFVEFT Note...

Are there any recommended alternate parts for U3 and SD1? Both are low/no stock at JLCPCB. (The 100mW 100-ohm resistors at R39 etc are also low-stock, but part C160517 appears to be equivalent.)

Perhaps I missed something, but I'm having trouble getting JLCPCB to process the BOM and CPL files for the v2 desktop board -- it just keeps throwing a generic error. I tried removing the through-hole parts from the CPL but that didn't help. Maybe JLCPCB is just having server problems today, but...