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All the ones I'm seeing around that $100 mark are the FX-8804. Looks like they also have multiple versions, since they're meant to be used with the FX-888 series. FX880401 is the Japanese 100V part, FX880402 is the North American 120V part, etc. There's also a seller with used FM2202's going for...

You got me excited until I saw that they're the Japanese 100V version -- not sure I want to risk it on American 120V mains.

I absolutely agree with this, and it's why I generally recommend using hot air for desoldering SMD parts. Yes, hot tweezers are the superior method -- and hopefully one day I'll be able to justify buying a set -- but a generic hot air station is an easy purchase given its price. I'd rather see...

There's also an interesting note on page 7 of that PDF: According to this Tech Note, the SE/30 is based on the Mac IIx and uses its ROM. While the Mac II's SIMM size limitations were fixed in the IIx's ROM, I wonder if the SIMM installation order still applies -- that is, smaller SIMMs in Bank...

I'm seeing the option to switch to airmail in the shopping cart, maybe it was added after you looked?

It definitely looks like that 68020 should not be there at all, based on this photo of a presumably stock unit. If yours came with one, but the 68030 socket empty, I'd wager that someone removed the 030 from it to swap into a Mac, then took the 020 from that Mac and, for whatever reason, felt...

It is definitely "banzai", I found it in at least two places inside the machine -- on the LCD ribbon cable, and also on the right side of the motherboard (and @Paralel this shot gives a bit of detail of the display connector):

It's been a while since I restored my 550c, but what I remember is that there were really few, if any, major motherboard differences. The internal layout of the machine is the same, as is the processor card connector (the 550c will take, for example, the same PPC upgrade card like the other...

When I've seen hot glue used to secure components, it's just been between the components themselves, i.e. sticking two tall caps together. I wouldn't use it to glue parts to a PCB, though I'm also not a fan of gluing parts to PCBs to begin with.

Can you post a photo of what you're referring to specifically? There's generally two kinds of "goop" that ends up in power supplies. One is thermal paste, which is usually between transistors and heatsinks. There's nothing special about it, and normal computer thermal paste is fine. The other...

Is the bodge on that chip from the factory, or a repair done afterwards? Can't say I've ever seen anything like that before.

Just an idea, maybe do the switching with USB? You're already able to convert the AEK to USB, so plug that into a USB switchbox/KVM. One output on the switch can go to the PC, then the other can go into a Wombat to convert to ADB. And since the Wombat appears to be powered externally, it *might*...

Here's the keyboard on my 466MHz model. The fn key has a grey-blue color. I have no reason to believe that the keyboard in this unit has ever been swapped, so it seems likely that all Lime models shipped with, effectively, graphite keyboards (which would make sense, as neon green lettering would...

Instead of searching for keywords like "iBook LCD," you'll have better luck disassembling the display housing and searching for the part number off of the LCD panel itself. There seems to be a cottage industry in China that refurbishes older-model LCD panels -- I suspect it's primarily to serve...

My own Lime machine is in storage, but some searching on Google Images suggests that they did indeed have keyboards with (what looks to me like) blue accents. Here are some photos of a boxed machine. Next time I get access to it, I'll snap a photo of the keyboard in mine for comparison.

Pretty sure DTP means "desktop publishing" in this context. Which, early on, was really what got the Mac its foothold in the marketplace (and kept it alive during the mid-90s).

Yeah, in doing some more research for the video I ultimately made on the PowerTower Pro, it sounds like they 1) did indeed ship with an L2 module, but 2) if you installed a G3 upgrade you often (but not always) needed to remove the L2 module. It seems that it came down to the design of the G3...

My inner IT/infosec engineer says that the drives themselves need to be either wiped or destroyed. Yes, historical preservation is important, but so is protecting personal information...and the likelihood of finding rare software on a random hard drive is low. As @eric mentioned, some places...

A while ago I had another Power Computing machine drop into my lap. It's a PowerTower Pro, and it looks like it's had some upgrades (as was common). But while poking around inside the system, I noticed that the L2 cache card slot is empty. The PowerTower series is based on Apple's Tsunami...

Something to consider are expandable foam inserts, like those from Instapak. In the very least they could save you packaging time and increase the likelihood of item survival in shipping, and maybe even save costs (wouldn't need any bubble wrap or peanuts).