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A little something to usher in the Christmas cheer. Merry Christmas, folks! ⛄🌟🎅🎄

@MICHAENTOSH and I have been discussing his 5126 Portable privately, and he mentioned the need in the past to boot from a floppy in order to get the Conner Hard Drive to boot, which baffled me. I can only assume that strangeness must pertain to the capacitors as well? I have zero experience...

Well, my friend, Michael, received the Battery Eliminator and got it to power his 5126 backlit model, although he shared the following photo with me to show it displays a Sad Mac error... 0000000E <-- Bus Error? RAM error? 0000FFFF <-- unknown He also says he needed to boot from a floppy in...

@Androda Thank you. I just now did what every single Portable owner on the planet should promptly do... I ordered a fully assembled Portable Battery Eliminator (shipped to a friend who owns the Portable). Fantastic product and engineering. Kudos for having brought it from Concept to Market!

If you are talking about making disk image backups of application programs (not your personal data), then I would recommend you first check if your disks contain software not already on the Macintosh Garden. I don't just mean the title, but also the version. If the same title and version...

@MrPickles2169 The keyboard is the only part of your IIci kit which seems yellowed in your opening post photo. Did that yellow in storage, unlike the computer and monitor? Or was the keyboard used by you during the years? If used, I would suggest opening it to check the solder joins for the...

@Androda Thank you for the explanation! I just noticed your BSv2 Adapter is out of stock (both Kit and Assembled). Do you know when it will be back in stock? Next... I read through your thread about the Hybrid Module for the non-Backlit Portable. That's yet another amazing product! Is...

@Androda I'm rather impressed with your new products, especially the Portable Battery Eliminator. Wow. Now all your store needs are replacement rubber feet for the Portable, as those crack apart or get torn away over time. Two questions: 1. Have any of your customers tried the Battery...

Thanks for your kindness, Jeff. I suspect he may not have any issues at the stock 50MHz speed. In my case, I have a stock 40MHz Daystar Turbo040 card for my IIci which I later overclocked to 44MHz via XTAL swap, and it was after that XTAL swap the 400K and 800K floppies became unreadable...

Thank you for the helpful feedback, Jeff! Sadly, even if I ignore HD20 mode on the FloppyEMU, the fact remains that 400K and 800K disks no longer work on the overclocked Turbo040, which is a problem that I am not sure I want to live with. But if such could be fixed by a hacked ROM SIMM, then...

I wish to thank David Cook for his excellent post over at the 68kMLA, as that served as my inspiration for overclocking the Daystar Turbo040 in my Mac IIci. Overclocking is done by a mere XTAL swap. (And the Hakko FR-301 desoldering gun makes the job easy, I must say.) Because David was able...

I'm at home now on my MacOS Sonoma M1 MBP, and it works great. The top part of the dialog is not cut off either. So the problem I reported in my previous post about the top part being cut off seems to be exclusive to MacOS Mojave. Not a major problem at all. I just wanted to mention it...

Very interesting. I'm here at work right now on my late 2015 5K iMac 27", and I am definitely running version 3.0 here. Sure enough, no problem. So I guess I was using an old version at home last night. One thing I do notice though on this Mac OS Mojave machine is that the very top content...

@OneGeekArmy I did my first test of the Apple II features today. You edited your opening post to say the following: Look inside DOS 3.3 disks Unfortunately, I am not able to get a file listing for my DOS 3.3 disks. ProDOS disks do work, however. Attached is a ZIP archive for you to test...

A well deserved nap too! Absolutely amazing work.

People who have boards with those white caps installed are lucky because they don't need changing. Too bad Apple didn't make all board using that particular cap!

Some time ago, OlePigeon over at the 68kMLA let me post photos of his boxed HyperDrive kit on my Flickr page, which you can check out here... https://flickr.com/photos/66071596@N00/albums/72157718814035061

Thank you for sharing that wonderful story, @MichaelLAX. And welcome to TinkerDifferent!

I also see that Console5 does in fact offer a recap kit for the Astec AA7341B: https://console5.com/store/apple-2c-power-supply-cap-kit-p-n-699-0230-astec-aa7341b.html That page provides a link to their cap-list WIKI, which explains the capacitors included in that specific cap kit...

A 1000µF 25V capacitor located just outside the PSU should also be replaced. It is green in the photo below...