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  1. Daniel Hansen

    ADP-17AB Cap List?

    Does anyone have recap list for the ADP-17AB PSU? I'm looking specifically for the voltage rating of C303 (the smaller 47µF one on the output side) - the glue was covering the rating and proved impossible to remove without also removing the cap's label... i'm good on the other three.
  2. Daniel Hansen

    Ode to the PowerBook 100

    At this year's VCF Midwest festival, Ron (@Ron's Computer Videos) and Steve (@Mac84) presented an introduction to PowerBook 100 series collecting. It was informative, thorough, entertaining, tailored well for the audience, and of course doing Father Sculley's good work and spreading the Gospel...
  3. Daniel Hansen

    Replacement display screw caps?

    I'm wondering if anyone has found or manufactured a decent replacement for the two rubber (?) caps for the display housing screws? I'm missing a couple, and others have turned into playdough. Possibly something could be made with silicone?
  4. Daniel Hansen

    Atari 2600 - Question about TIA LUMA circuits resistance

    I'm installing a composite mod on a Rev 13 board, and having two issues - the image is really dark and some colours are missing. Prior to the mod, on RF, the missing colours issue was present, but at least the intensity / brightness of the image was fine. I've found that I can solve both...
  5. Daniel Hansen

    Androda's V3 PowerBook BlueSCSI in various PB1xx

    I was using my PB165 for the THINK C study group, and of course the spinner died. I have a bunch of other PB1xx's with dead drives as well, I figured I should do something about it. Wanting to do a ground-up build myself (instead of buying a bunch of kits), I settled on printing @Androda's V3...
  6. Daniel Hansen

    QuickTake 100 - proactive maintenance required?

    I have a QuickTake 100 that's working nicely, but I was wondering if there's a need to open it up and do some preventative maintenance? Has anyone taken one of these apart?
  7. Daniel Hansen

    BASIC Coding Train guy does some Applesoft BASIC

    I've enjoyed this guy's videos in the past (especially for p5.js and JSON / REST API fun stuff) - and he released a video of him recreating one of his popular challenges in Applesoft BASIC on a ][+, and it's pretty fun as he talks through his process: PS - does it make sense to have a BASIC...
  8. Daniel Hansen

    Toshiba T4600C - capacitor identification

    This question isn't actually device specific, but I don't see a forum for general component questions - so here it goes. I need to recap a Toshiba T4600C, and there are quite a few of those plastic-encased electrolytics... the values of most of them are obvious, but one type is not (at least to...
  9. Daniel Hansen

    Portable Adapter (M5136) Capacitor List

    Location Voltage Capacitance Height Diameter Board Lead Spacing C201 16V 2200µF 25mm 12mm 5mm C203 16V 330µF 14mm 8mm 5mm C206 25V 100µF 11mm 5.5mm 5mm C251 (secondary side daughter board) 50V 2.2µF 5.5mm 4mm 5mm C109 (primary side) 400V 47µF 25mm 16mm 7mm
  10. Daniel Hansen

    IIc video port to composite adapter?

    Has anyone made this adapter? https://www.ebay.com/itm/193393714278 Apparently it merely pulls the NTSC composite signal from the video port (as well as the audio signal from the same port)... is that it?? https://devonhubner.org/AppleIIc_Video_Port_Breakout/ Word is that the output quality is...
  11. Daniel Hansen

    Powerbook FSTN display cable repair - unexpectedly works!

    Last week I was attempting to swap a good Rev. C passive matrix display from a parts 160 to a 145 that had a damaged Rev. B passive matrix display. Because I'm a reckless idiot, I let the display fall over while it was still connected. Of course the display cable ripped clean in half near the...
  12. Daniel Hansen

    iMac G3 I/O port cover source?

    Has anyone ever been able to find the I/O cover / door for the earlier iMac G3's?? It's the only thing missing / not right with my Bondi and it's driving me crazy. Is this something that could be made?
  13. Daniel Hansen

    Multimeter recommendations: auto-ranging?

    I'm in the market for a new multimeter, and I'm curious to hear opinions on whether or why to go auto ranging. The one I have now is not auto ranging, and I kind of like the idea of having granular control over what range I'm measuring in, but I've never tried auto ranging before. What say you??
  14. Daniel Hansen

    IIGS GBS 8200 / ESP8266 RGB->VGA or HDMI Upscaler

    A while ago, I whipped up a cheap solution to get the IIGS's RGB to output and upscale to VGA using the GBS 8200, following @jcm-1 's tutorial: It was SO much better than the crap composite output, but not great. Then recently, I saw on FB that there is a modification you can make to the GBS...