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I've been fighting with a 550 that worked just fine a few years ago and then last year when I went to power it on, it does not boot. I get the power LED, fan, some sounds from the SCSI HD, but no picture or boot chime. I recapped and cleaned the board, same issue. I tested a known good Color...

As part of the massive barn haul I picked up last year, there was a Dell CRT that had a Trinitron tube in it, but had no power button and the base was missing. The monitor looks like it was designed to be used with or without the base, so I decided not to try to replace the base. But having...

I recently picked up an Apple IIgs that I had to drive a little bit aways for. And I noticed on FB Marketplace that there was a nice looking IBM PS/1 machine that was listed right on my drive back from picking up the IIgs. I messaged the person who had the listing and it was going to be part...

Today, even though I’m trying to downsize my collection, I ended up picking up an apple IIgs that is a ROM 01 machine and looked to have a box full of accessories. The main reason I got it was because it had the original Apple desktop bus keyboard, which I’ve always wanted to add to my keyboard...

I listed a ton of my extras and unused items on FB Marketplace and have been having a hectic time trying to manage the responses you get when you list 70 Vintage Apple devices all at once! Lesson learned. However, I ended up talking with a local woman who really loves CRTs and she really...

So, I’ve been working on a few of the last of the machines I picked up late last year. One of them was a battery bombed 650 that had a damaged SIMM slot. Unfortunately, I think I used too much heat and damaged some traces trying to remove that 72 pin socket. I did finally get it out, and...

I never knew this was possible But now that I do, I think it would be really cool to run MacOS on my NeXT Station. So, it seems this requires an external box that connects to the DSP port and has an LC ROM in it. It was called the DayDream. Any chance someone has one of these and could...

So, I have finally started trying to salvage the LC form factor machines from my shop haul last December. I was able to get two boards that weren't destroyed by the battery or flooding. Unfortunately, neither would initially boot. On the first, I was looking over the board after my recap, and...

This is a bit of a carry-over from my other IIe card post. I picked up a IIe card from eBay several months back. It was listed as working. I installed it in my Mystic Color Classic, and while the card was recognized and I can boot the IIe, no matter what I tried, I could not get it to run the...

I received my MacEffects case yesterday. I'm so glad they did another run of the clear because I always loved the look but missed out on previous sales. I've had an SE/30 with a reloaded board I've been keeping around with the intention of putting it in a clear case if I ever got the...

I helped a guy in my area by recapping his LC logic board and its power supply. Well, he found his Apple IIe card for it and unfortunately it looks to be in very bad shape. Looks like that capacitor on the left has eaten away what look to be two oscillators? Just with different...

So, I was messing around with my PowerBook 190cs and I noticed in the Control Strip, it allowed me to select thousands of colors. So I selected it... Big mistake! Basically the screen when a slightly odd shade of gray. No problem, I thought, I will restart and zap the PRAM using the...

I picked up a bunch of old computers and CRTs late last year. In that haul was a SuperMac 17" CRT. I finally got around to trying to power it on and while it does power on and show a green LED on the front, I get no picture. However, when I turn it off, I do get the lines at shutdown that...

I had two of my four Mac IIc* machines have bad speakers. And the speakers in them are off, rectangular shaped speakers. I also had a bad speaker in my Mac II (which made me think for the longest time I wasn't getting a boot chime or sad Mac chimes) and found a decent replacement on Amazon. I...

I prefer my helper devices to be covered, and recently learned how easy it is to make basic things in TinkerCad. I recently ordered a set of ESProfiles (internal and external), and while the internal is perfect for my needs, I decided I wanted a case for the external one. So I made the...

So, despite my temporary pause on acquiring new machines because of the massive pile of filthy macs in my workshop, what appeared to be a Mac 128k popped up on FB marketplace and I decided to pull the trigger since the price was good. However, since I don’t think you can actually tell in...

OK, I've been working through my PowerMac 61xx machines that I picked up in my filthy haul a few weeks back. I've successfully built some replacement Y adapters for the ones with a DOS card, but I now have a bigger problem. I currently only have a single HDI-45 adapter that I had with my...

I'll post more in a bit, but I responded to a FB Marketplace post where the OP claimed "Around 100 computers, printers, scanners, and keyboards". No price, and the pictures showed some pretty dusty machines stacked on some shelving in what looked to be a shed. I looked at the posting's...

So, like I suspect many others, I picked up a Monitor /// recently (two actually, but only one had this issue) that had a tear on the mesh screen that I believe was to be a sort of anti-gear coating. When I removed the case, I realized it was just mesh attached to a plastic frame. I...

I just picked up an Apple III locally and it came with a ProFile 5MB Drive (unfortunately no Profile card in the machine), two Apple /// Monitors, and the external floppy drive. I need to replace the RIFA caps as the big ones are cracked significantly. However, I decided to start it up in...