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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...

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...

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...

I'm in the process of doing a full recap on a 128K Mac and was having a hard time finding a complete list. So I made my own. This is for the 120V version part number 630-0102. The physical sizes might be off by a part of a mm, but replacements will mostly be smaller anyway. Notes If you need...

I have a board that will boot okay to a floppy, but will be stuck on a gray screen with movable cursor if a SCSI drive is attached. I removed and cleaned under and later swapped out the SCSI IC and checked continuity for most of the SCSI and sound circuit. The one odd thing I've noticed is that...

I recently recapped a SE/30. After cleaning, it booted to a gray screen with cursor and nothing else if a SCSI drive was attached. It booted okay if only a floppy was connected. As a matter of troubleshooting I removed the SCSI IC, cleaned underneath and put it back. Afterwards, it was then...

I've been looking for one of these displays for years. Today was my lucky day! This is a very rare Radius branded version of the SGI 1600SW. It's 1600x1024 and would normally have an OpenLDI connector. The person I got this from got it from a SGI engineer who made a custom DVI cable for it...

Not sure if this is documented elsewhere, so here's a map of all the Duo Dock PSU electrolytic capacitors. Everything on the daughter boards is solid-state.

A while back in this thread we talked about how nice it would be to have an Analog Board to MLB extension cable for the 128K/512K. I finally made one today and it works great. I made mine 14" long which gives enough room to move the board around. If I make another, I might do 16" just to have...

I have a Duo Dock that works okay with a known good PSU, but it's own PSU isn't working correctly. It has been recapped, but still just gets a faint tick when the power button is pushed. The eject mechanism works okay. 5V for the eject button and ~20V for the eject motor work okay. The power...

I just watched @This Does Not Compute 's video on the PowerBook 540c and was curious about the SCSI-IDE bridge on the upgraded HDD. That seems like a possibly good solution to retain a mechanical drive without spending a lot of money on a SCSI drive. Especially so for 2.5" drives. Is there an...

Has anyone made a reproduction RAM upgrade card for the Mac Portable? I’m cu how much of an undertaking that would be. It has a 90° connector but I think it’s something somewhat standard. Is there anything else unique about it compared to other Mac RAM modules?

I restored a Lisa 2 last year, which is now in very nice condition, but it didn't come with any accessories or manuals. Yesterday a friend gave me an unopened copy of the original owner's guide and a complete in box Lisa Draw. It has the original twiggy disk. So cool! Hopefully I can find the...

Most Macs I come across in the 8x00 style case are trashed. Usually bezels missing, cracked plastics, yellowed etc. It was a treat to find this Quadra 840av in such nice condition. I'm afraid if I open it, it'll crumble to bits. I might just enjoy it like this for a while to avoid the heartbreak.

This week I picked up a pair of 7500 and G3 desktops with a lovely Radius PrecisionColor 17" CRT. These awesome big boxes ended up being included. I especially love the wacky Prince of Persia NFR box. This is a great article covering the history of the weird shape game boxes.

It'd be nice to prefix watched forums with their parent's name. Like.. The Lab: Soldering and Repair Approved Vendors: Maceffects Trading Post: North America There are so many forums, that I'm using the watched forums as my homepage. Having this bit of detail will make it a little easier to...

Do others find the alert button and thread/message counts useful in the watched forums list? It doesn't seem helpful to me and could be an opportunity to reduce clutter and make more space for the last post summary, which I do think is handy. Also, the alerts button and label are aligned in a...

It looks like searching for very short terms works, yay! It’d be nice to be able to type something like “se/30 in:Compact Mac” like Slack rather than have to go to that specific forum to search inside of. It’s ideal when you have so many forums. Saves clicking around. Also, do you know how...

I just created a post and edited it shortly after. It doesn’t look like it says ‘edited’ anywhere. It’d probably be good to have edited posts clearly marked as such.

I upgraded from a no-name $40 858D hot air station to a $4,000 Metcal HCT-1000 station and PCT-1000 preheater. Fortunately I found them on eBay and got a great deal. As expected, it’s extremely nice and ridiculously overkill for a hobbyist. I couldn’t find any reviews or videos about these...