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Yeah, I got a 6100 and was confused by the tangle of cables for hooking up the monitor, and then I realized it had the DOS compatibility card. It gets hot! Throw a PowerPC 601 with a 486 right across from it, then add incredibly poor airflow!

I considered. I have two CD cartridges, so I might see about painting one. The paint gives a bit of a rough texture to it, so I'll have to be careful anywhere the CD would contact. But I think I'm going to leave the cartridge drive doors as is on the Mac TV. I like keeping it original, even...

FYI, I painted my Performa 5500 with the same technique:

I had wondered that myself, and if this article is to be believed, they are replica batteries: "In frames, such as this Apple Watch model, that include a battery, a fake battery is used so it is safe to store, display, and ship. However Grid creates the fake batteries, they look identical to...

Picked up a 4s on eBay for a discount. Haven’t hung it up yet, but really do love seeing the components that make up older tech. Part of why I love the translucent phase of Apple products. My 17 Apple Studio CRT is one of my favorite pieces of apple hardware.

Yeah, Biology class finally came in handy!

Yeah, my wife loves me running my old machines in the kitchen after I fix them up!

The longer cable worked well. It is much longer than necessary, but makes it very easy to plug in / remove. Only slight challenge was that the connector on one end wasn't keyed, so you just need to make sure you plug it in the proper way then attaching the edge connector. After plugging it...

Got it painted and everything looks great. Now to try to recreate the model sticker and powerPC logo.

So, I decided to keep the quirky platinum doors from the Mac TV to keep it original. And I was reading up on the black Mac SE/30 and realized that the real life version was platinum, and it was only black when they recreated it for the Watchmen movie. So I think I'm going to leave my spare SE...

I may or may not have forgotten to turn off my soldering iron one day and then left for 5 hours. I thought it had an auto cut-off, but I was wrong. Tip was in pretty bad shape...

Also, for documentation purposes for anyone else that needs to disassemble the drive to recap or fix the drive eject issue, here is how you take it apart. First, remove from the front of the computer. There's a tab underneath that you lift up as you pull the drive out. It has edge connectors...

Ok, so I figured out the problem. That arm inside the drive that I showed in my video was the problem. There was a torsion spring (couldn't think of the word for it in the video) that was supposed to keep the lever arm pushing down. It had fallen off it's mount point and so the lever arm that...

The CD Caddy is actually embossed (or whatever the opposite of embossed in (carved out of the plastic). Debossed? Anyway, I think it would still be visible even if painted. Also, as discussed in my other thread about the CD caddy getting stuck in the drive, there's actually two doors. One...

The other question I am contemplating is: do I paint the CD drive doors? One one hand, I think it would make the Mac TV look much better. On the other, it's not stock and the platinum colored CD door was one of those quirky Mac TV things.

On that note, anyone know the font used for the model names on the Mac SE? I think I might give this a go with my spare SE case.

Love the DOS Compatible label on the front! I ran into problems getting my DOS card to work, and I reseated the CPU and it was working great again. Glad you were able to track one down.

Yeah, I meant to post a video with the original post, but got caught up in work things. Here’s a somewhat long video trying to explain the behavior. The door mechanism itself: And the eject where it doesn’t move the door out of the way:

It did get me thinking. With my wife's vinyl cutting machine, I feel like I could make a stencil in the right font for the model number. And I have a Mac SE case that doesn't have innards I could do a trial run on... It would look a bit like one of those defense department black Macs. And I...

I'm trying to fix up my Macintosh TV and the CD ROM would not take a CD initially. I know the AppleCD 300 drives are notorious for their capacitor leakage, so I removed the drive, took the shield off, removed the board and could see a significant amount of damage from leaky caps. I cleaned up...