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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    Spent days going over the SE/30 board and couldn't make it happy...time for plan B:
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    ZiLOG discontinues the Z80 & Support IC's in June 2024

    Is the Z85C3008VEG compatible with UG12 on the SE/30?
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    Working on the mildly-bombed SE/30 board...I removed the battery holder and buzzed out a bunch of stuff before attempting to boot, and found and fixed a few broken traces. I then installed new caps, replaced the missing Y1 and UD1, installed RAM and ROM and fired it up. I got a chime followed...
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    April Fool's Listing?

    probably selling the ball separately for $99 :ROFLMAO: Seriously though, M2706's are all over ebay for around $20-$25 shipped.
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    Radius Rocket & Radius Thunder 24/GT compatible?

    Not me. Most of those items were already in that machine when I inherited it. Just fortunate.
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    Using the Sun to restore a yellow Macintosh ☀️

    I haven't read the entire thread, but it was most likely 40 volume developer, which is 12% H2O2. That's the stuff I use and see most other people use, at least those that live somewhere where it's available.
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    Ok, I've been saving these two bombed SE/30's for last. I don't know if that was saving the best for last, or just putting off the most potential frustration :) Hopefully I can get at least one working machine out of them. Anyways, here they are: The analog boards, PSUs, and CRTs all...
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    Installing a fan into a Mac Plus

    Completely silent and stylish Macintosh cooling 🙃:
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    #MARCHintosh project: Mac IIci 6-node Hermes II BBS

    Finally got the ethernet sorted in my 040 IIci so it could talk to its twin 😁
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    The Plus was kind of like the Color Classic in that it already worked somewhat, but was just really rusty and dirty. It would boot to the ? and off a FloppyEMU, but not from SCSI or a real floppy. It got the full recap treatment...analog board, logic board, and floppy. The floppy was also...
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    MARCHintosh Projects?

    I guess my project will be to keep working through this pile of compacts I got from another forum member back in December...just finished up the CC, so moving on the Plus next! https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tinkering-with-compacts-all-winter.3157/
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    #MARCHintosh project: Mac IIci 6-node Hermes II BBS

    Connected from my newly-working Color Classic using BlueSCSI DaynaPort emulation :)
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    Radius Rocket & Radius Thunder 24/GT compatible?

    I'm running a Turbo040, 128MB LB RAM, 128MB Stage II Rocket, RasterOps Paintboard Prism GT, and Farallon NIC in my IIci with the original Astec PSU (recapped), and everything is stable...no signs of a warp core breach. So, while I can't answer your video card compatibility question, I have...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    I replaced the FPU on the ThunderCachePro and stability improved, but still had the occasional nondeterministic crash. Then I found the reason that MicroMac puts those fancy gold stickers on all of their CPUs and FPUs: That's a 33Mhz part on a 50Mhz accelerator 😬. I swapped in a real 50Mhz...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    It took some tinkering and running in circles, but I finally got this 50Mhz ThunderCachePro working in the Color Classic: When it didn't work on the first try, I moved it to my LCII so I would have at least some access to the card while it was running. Just like in the CC, it was chiming...
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    Anybody have experience with Radius Rocket Stage II cards?

    I don't have any experience troubleshooting or repairing mine so far (knock on wood), but I can confirm that it supports 128MB of RAM: Is there any visible damage or corrosion on either card? I did have another accelerator where leaky caps had eaten a couple of the RAM's data lines, but I...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    Ya, I read about that in your other thread. I'm sure you'll get it going again :) I'm really liking the Color Classic so far. When I got it, I briefly thought about swapping in a 575 board, but they're expensive anymore, and I want to give this accelerator something to do besides gather...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    The Color Classic worked, but had the rusty dusties and some fishy smelling caps on the analog board. The logic board was in good shape and was recapped by the previous owner, so I didn't get/have to do that. So, I completely recapped the analog board, including this guy that wasn't part of...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    So the 512K put up a bit of a fight...specifically the analog board. It was flupping upon arrival. Closer inspection showed signs of a previous RIFA explosion and previous attempts at repairs. The legs of the RIFA replacement weren't clipped, and one of them wasn't soldered to anything...
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    tinkering with compacts all winter?

    128k had a bath and is done for now...moving on to the 512k. I didn't have a cord for the keyboard, so I temporarily soldered one end of a phone cord to the keyboard PCB while I acquire the correct cable 🙃