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  1. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    I don't even know if ADB NeXT mice are easier to find then the mac Black mice. I've just seen pictures where people were using a NeXT mouse with their black Macs.
  2. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    I agree with this guy
  3. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    i've seen people use a NeXT mouse. they might be easier to find ?!?
  4. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    I feel like everybody has a "the one that got away" for me there is a few. OG Mac 128k (pre fat mac release) my dad threw away. he REALLY REALLY regrets it. imac 333MHz. i traded it for a monitor + cash. never got the cash. so in the end it was just a crt monitor. 🤦‍♂️ Powerbook 190. that one...
  5. Patrick

    Is being 'obsolete' enough to be 'vintage' ?

    agree with Androda, vintage is in the eye of the beholder. and usually its "whatever i used when i was a kid (+ or - some amount of time)" Like, i wouldn't talk about intel based macs running modern-ish Mac OS X at this site. even if Apple names them obsolete or vintage. .. but i'm old. (but...
  6. Patrick

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    Somebody did something like this for the Apple ][ . .. well the idea of sending video commands over a network i mean. they took a webcam, converted each frame to Apple ][ graphic commands. (i forget which mode) and sent those over to an apple //e i think... I think it was charles mangin who...
  7. Patrick

    Mac SE Restoration Project -- advice wanted!

    Agreed, i think JDW has the best how to videos for these kinds of repairs. Watching Mac84 and Branchus repair computeres live is nice also. But JDW takes the time to show you all the ins and outs. The analog board is nothing to be scared about. it does have some capactors that can hold a lot of...
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    Mac SE Restoration Project -- advice wanted!

    I also second the idea of doing on thing at a time and testing it out. And, if one were to do that, it would be handy to have the cable that goes from the analog board to the logic board to be longer. ... and with an SE you have such a solution.
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    Mac SE Restoration Project -- advice wanted!

    I've recapped a few Plus's which also just have the axial caps. Nothing i could tell was wrong with them. But as a few people said, they will go bad. the main reason i did it was to build up my confidence to do surface mount. (like mac classics) All the analog boards i've done worked before i...
  10. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    >NeXT Cube (unlikely due to crazy prices at this point) same. but it would be neat if one just happens to show up at a price point i'm willing to pay for.... I found a PowerCD on craigslist once. i wish i jumped on it. oh well..... maybe another one will show up again in the future.
  11. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    the TAM is kinda neat to sit it next to a modern iMac and see the influences. You can see jony ive was trying to go for with the TAM but couldn't get there fully. .... but yeah its pretty underpowered. it came out right next to the G3s. but was no where near that performance while costs many...
  12. Patrick

    No video out on 030 upgraded Mac Plus

    Thats kinda interesting you have a 030 upgrace for a macplus. I have a mac plus with a brainstorm upgrade. which is just a fast 68000. i found it to be unstable. (i think maybe i have other problems with the logic board that may or may not be related to the upgrade) How is yours performing...
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    No video out on 030 upgraded Mac Plus

    nice find. and yeah. i'm more often then i care to admit pulling apart a computer only to find out i left the computer unplug. (or something equivalent easy)
  14. Patrick

    Satanic Mac Club T-Shirt

    i deleted my post about the no fatty size shirts because i couldn't figure out how to be funny.. Certificate to the rescue! I need like a 3xl lol. (and i don't even feel that fat. i think i still have the mind of the stick figure i was in high school)
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    Satanic Mac Club T-Shirt

  16. Patrick

    Satanic Mac Club T-Shirt

    very cool. But shouldn't it be satanic Apple club ? or spring out of a Mac plus or something?
  17. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    What does that do?
  18. Patrick

    What are your vintage grail items?

    > Great Investment it will be for the seller if anybody buys it at that price. I don't think I have any macs left i really REALLY want. I would like the network server. but i think it might be just too big. I'm kinda interested in the Acorn Archimedes or the 68k based sun machines. basically...
  19. Patrick

    My new addiction

    I love answering stupid questions. they are often the only questions i can answer. and answering any questions makes me feel smart. (even though i'm actually anything but) edit: sometimes the only path to smart questions is a bunch of stupid questions first. rubber ducky troubleshooting is a...
  20. Patrick

    nubus who dis?

    at first i thought that little serial looked like the printer / modem port on macs. but its the wrong pinout. I wonder if both need special breakout cables to actually get all the ports you would normally have on a 486 ? I bet there are websites that have already figured out how to make your...