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A friend recently gave these to me as a thank you for something. I don't know the whole story, but it sounds like they were possibly a gift to people who worked on the first gen iPod mini. Regardless, they're now my favorite quirky accessory.

I'm restoring a couple of original Disk II drives which have rusty bottom screws and melted feet. I had a hard time finding documentation about their specs, so I'm posting this for anyone who needs the info in the future. The rubber feet are 3M SJ-5023-BLACK. They're 2cm square at their base...

The IWM or Integrated Woz Machine is the floppy controller IC. Perhaps check the solder joints or just give them all a reflow before giving up on this board.

Updated the description text to include the logic board part number. Changed C11 from 25V to 16V. Updated lead spacings to align with JDWs document. The mostly moved things by 0.5 to 1.0mm and added in lead spacings for the axial caps of the analog board. Added a column to note caps marked as...

Just for completeness, I noted the OEMs for each capacitor on this specific board in case that's interesting to anyone. I've noted 'Nippon Chemi-con' as marked, but I think they're now known as United Chemi-con.

Perhaps you need to update to 8.6 or 9 to get that drive working. How did you attempt to access it? Did you format it with Drive Setup? If it's formatted with a more modern file system it's not going to mount in 8.5. You can find QuickFTP on the Mac App Store. You'll need an ethernet cable and...

What are you plugging the USB stick into? I don't think they will work if plugged into the keyboard. The iMac has ethernet, so you could set up a simple FTP server on a modern Mac with something like QuickFTP and then download a client (Fetch/Transmit) from a site like Macintosh Garden. That...

Sounds like bad RAM as the error is indicating. You could try a diagnostic like TechTool Pro to get more confirmation. Otherwise if you have two chips you can try removing one and swap testing to figure out which has failed. If you have one chip, it's time to find a replacement.

This beauty is now working! Below is a table showing the final connections that I made when splicing the new cable in. I hope it helps someone in the future. Now on to rebuilding the speaker cables which should be a lot easier.

I recently got this lovely Packard Bell CRT monitor, but its VGA cable was cut by ewaste. I got another VGA cable to splice in, but the wire colors are different. Before I do the work, I was hoping someone here could let me know if I'm on the right track or not. Can someone here advise if the...

@MacEffects FYI on this thread since we were just chatting about the subject. It'd be nice to find a shop that specializes in plastic/paint spectrometry to sample something like a sealed-in-box accessory with no texture (like the inside of a mouse ball cover) that's likely to be exactly or close...

They already moved and it was just a few blocks down the street. They should be good for a while.

@Kai Robinson I've added this as a resource here.

This guide was created based on an early 1984 128K Mac analog board P/N 630-0102 with a black anode cap and Logic Board P/N 630-0101. Regardless, this guide should also apply to later revisions of the 128K, 512K and Plus. Links to Digikey and Mouser have not been included since things go out of...

Did you already try cleaning the pot with contact cleaner?

I think the heater would still be on, so less efficient and adds to wear and tear.

I mostly collect Apple and directly adjacent things (NeXT, Radius, etc.), but my first computer was a Packard Bell desktop. It was a 486SX 33... probably some form of Legend from 1993-94ish but I don't recall the details. It had the Frog Design case with gray Memphis style squiggles. It was...

@AndyDiags I've added Lead Spacing above. Also, for anyone curious, here are all the caps as measured in this specific Mac 128K. Quite impressive that only one cap is wildly out of spec.

Neat! I see start times but no time zone. Is it GMT+0?

It says "1983-84"