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    3D printed HDD slots and slide lock for Power Macintosh G3

    Hi there All, I have a Power Macintosh G3 in and the plastics are very crumbly, so i have spend a few hours to make the needed parts in CAD and i have test fitted them. a few revisions down the line, they are ready to print. Here to share: - HDD slide in brackets (the ones that live on the...
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    Test Jig for CC analog/digital boards

    Hi there Tinkerers, thought i'd share something i worked on for a while. Since i started servicing classic mac's, and especially colour classic machines, I've always been annoyed that it is so hard to measure anything in-situ, while powered on. So when i got a LC575 in with plastics that had...
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    Unique find, 3 Minolta CRT colour analysers, very likely from the Apple production line.

    Last month I stumbled upon a batch of Minolta CA-100 CRT Colour analysers, for $39,- each. so I thought, what the heck, let's order some and perhaps I can build one working unit out of the 3, since they looked Used with a capital U, obviously production floor units. Once they got here they...
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    Colour classic learnings of the day

    Hi everyone, I'm making this post just to memorize and help those with a similar issue. While upgrading a colour classic with a mystic upgrade i got a Bus error message before boot, i could not really work this out, and swapped memory, bluescsi, motherboard and CPU, and nothing changed the...
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    Custom USB-C powered 8"display for the Apple IIc with STL files and build plan

    Hi there, Fellow Tinkerers, Recently i have spend some time to make a 3D printable display for the Apple IIc, and today is the day to share the design as all is finished, assembled, tested and so on. I am sharing the STL files so you can print the design yourself (or send it to a printing...