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    Macintosh IIci Logicboard recreation

    I had a quote back form PCBWay, $2300 for 5! yeah I think I'll pass on that. Will have to go for a normal colour. So for those interested, what colour would you like? I will probably only do a single colour so I'll go with whichever is most popular The boards have now been fully tested and work...
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    Hotline in 2024?

    Very nice, wasn't aware there where modern clients still under development Might end up moving my server over to hotline as wired is now getting very old and unsupported (Plus it always lacked any proper cross platform compatibility or any compatibility with classic Mac OS)
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    Reviving a pile of xbox 360's

    First off I know what you're thinking, those aren't retro! I didn't think so either, then I remembered the original version came out in 2005.... I guess these are officially vintage now! I have a pile of xbox 360 boards I have been keeping for years back form when I used to repair these...
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    Macintosh IIci Logicboard recreation

    There has been quite a bit of interest so I will be doing at least one run for sale :)
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    Macintosh IIci Logicboard recreation

    Board has been assembled and..... Booted almost the first time, I made two small assembly errors (swapped two transistors and rotated a 26LS30 90 degrees form where it should be) and the crystal for the audio circuit was bad. No changes where made to the board to get it to boot :) after a...
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    Macintosh IIci Logicboard recreation

    Purple shiny things arrived yesterday :) Currently assembling one, this might take a little while.....
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    Parametric PGA socket

    I have been printing the holes at 1.8mm bottom and 2.2mm top, quite a lot bigger than the actual pin but this is partly probably down the the fact I have never really aligned my printer
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    Parametric PGA socket

    Can confirm these work really well :) Printed in PETG on my totally uncalibrated Ender V2. Ideally you need a chip in the socket when soldering as the pins may move otherwise I did have to open up the size of the holes a tad to compensate for the resolution limit of the printer
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    Macintosh IIci Logicboard recreation

    Something I have been working on recently: It's a near 1:1 reproduction with some minor rerouting where this made sense. Boards are on order, should be here in a couple of weeks Not much more to say (other than thanks to @Kai Robinson for providing the donor board I used) you have all seen...
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    Getting there..... [ATTACH]

    Getting there.....
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    Shady eBay seller laptop-better-battery

    Common tactic with eBay battery sellers I'm afraid. Unless your buying from a known brand it's safe to assume anything on eBay will only be warrantied for the length of the eBay money back grantee. Only other thing you can try is you paid through PayPal and it was less than 180 days ago you can...
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    Fix-a-Fork

    Would be interested in testing it too, I actually have a folder of resource fork stripped files that where uploaded to my server over the years, mostly a mix of Disk Copy and SMI images IIRC. Will send a DM when I get back form work
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    Recreateing the Apple TechStep

    Yep, it was a small batch and want very quickly! There is a thread in the for sale section here and on 68kmla both of which will be updated when they are back in stock (or people can message me directly) It is something that has been considered and may be made in the future but that we do not...
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    Recreateing the Apple TechStep

    Update time! First batch have all sold and a second batch of PCB's are in production The design has been changed slightly to stiffen up the units when assembled, the port pack and keypad are now one PCB with the LCD screwed into the centre of it, this also has the added advantage of getting rid...
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    Cloning a Clone - Recreating a Clone Apple II Logicboard

    A basic first pass of all the trace routeing has been done: Still need to do the connectors and check a few area's against the schematic (and run the big power traces down the sides of the board) but most of the hard work has been done now :)
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    Cloning a Clone - Recreating a Clone Apple II Logicboard

    It's that time of year again, time for a new clone! Really I should be working on the LC 475 board but 6 layer boards and desoldering 208pin QFP's is not seeming appealing at the moment so another project was needed I have been after a Apple II for a while but they go for way more money in the...
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    Breaking the 36MB RAM limit on the LCIII

    Afraid not though there isn't really much to test tbh, those simms should work with a couple of trace cuts and some jumpers ran (As they are essentially the same design as my simm from what I see just with the extra RAS's ran to the slot rather than a connector I might give @johnklos's idea a...
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    Recreateing the Apple TechStep

    Very! ;) They have been tested and work fine on everything we have tested them on Need to assemble a couple more of them
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    Expanding SSD Drive capacity?

    I would think the controller IC would need programming to tell it how much flash is installed, having a quick look around I wasn't able to find a datasheet for it so can't confirm this. There are some configuration jumper resistors though but again without a datasheet it's hard to tell what...
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    MFM Floppy Drives?

    I'm about 90% sure the board in my beige DT has a MFM header on it. Maybe i'll try desoldeirng the Apple / GCR header and installing a MFM one since the G3 is really a parts mac anyway