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Recently came into a longtime want - a Canon object.station 41, with the keyboard. The SCSI card and drives are in the machine, thought the SCSI cable is missing. On power-up, the caps/num/scroll lights flash briefly, and there is power to the disk drives, but there is no POST, no beeps, no...

Free Geek Twin Cities recently got a donation of a Franklin Ace 2200, but unfortunately without they keyboard. I thought I would ask here in case anyone might have a spare or know of some other solutions to at least see what the functionality is of this guy. I see some older posts on VCF.org...

The last couple of weeks have been "SGI Recovery" time. I've been working on a Octane, Indigos, and and Indy. My question comes up since all of these have a dark plastic for their cases - blue in the case of the Indigos and green for the Octane. On these dark plastics, scratches and scuffs are...

I will place this in the marketplace as well, but I could use a good front door with the old Octane script for my machine. The one I have took a big scratch right across the "Octane" lettering and the silkscreen is gouged. Don't necessarily need the whole front, but would consider it if the...

I have an SE/30 that I recapped that appears to be working correctly except for one thing. It will read floppies correctly, and will write floppies some of the time, but the rest of the time, and _always_ when I try to format a floppy, it will crash with a "bus error" in the Finder, or just lock...

I am bringing an Octane back to life... Hinv says it has an EMXI video board. Part number 030-1240-003. Machine boots up fine to the splash screen, etc. but when I run the system diagnostics I get the error "RDRAM Quick Failed XIO Slot 12 Part number 030-1240-003 MOT20 Rev C". The research I've...

I posted this just now on the LisaList2 site, but thought I'd toss it out here as well... --- I have on hand a Sun20 hard drive - I presume out of an XL at some point in time. When placed in an XL with Lisa ROMs, the drive spins up but is not recognized. BLU does not appear to recognize the...

Was working on the Franken-Lisa today, and was able to revive one of my dormant Widget drives by transplanting the top two boards - where the data cable plugs in and the read/write board below it. The target drive would never come ready, and another Widget sounded like something scraping...

I've got a couple/three Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs from a local charter school that "don't work", and I offered to give it a shot to see if I can repair. The common symptom is that none of them will show any signs of powering up, even after SMC reset, disconnecting/reconnecting the battery...

A gentleman asked if we wanted some old Macs. Here's what showed up (along with some Commodore breadboxes).

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I've come across a nice little Sparcstation 1+ but it has some pieces of the top case that have broken off - before I got it :) Luckily, I have the pieces and so I'd like to glue them back on to improve the cosmetics as best I can. I've had recommendations to use either MEK or Xylene as they...

I'm trying to build an image for NeXT black hardware on BlueSCSI. Latest firmware. I've used both the NeXT tool to build disks as well as the image @Drake called out from Winworld that is said to work on BlueSCSI for NeXT. The image is seen by the NeXT as a drive, but in both cases its seen...

If I had a Radius Rocket to test out before I decide to sell it, what would be the best combo of OS and machine? I have a IIfx, a Q700, and a IIci that I could use as a testbed.

After seeing this on Reddit, I ordered one from a seller on eBay. I thought it was a decent price, and good communication and quick shipping from the seller. They do other custom neon as well.

Does anyone know the layout of the Portable keyboard matrix? I've got a Portable that crashes when you press certain keys, like U, D, L, arrow keys, etc. It's not they keyboard itself, since if I switch in another keyboard, it does the same thing. As I'm going to start tracing things through...

Have completed the recap of a backlit Portable. The machine boots, sound is good, screen is good, etc. Boots from external SCSI drive. The issue I'm having is no matter what the application or text box, whenever I type more than 3-4 characters on the keyboard, it either drops to the ROM...

Needs at least a TOD battery. Missing drive sled, but I can use external SCSI until I get that from my friend.

I've got two Thunderbolt displays that both have problems with the panels. Looking at them, I'm wondering if there's a practical solution to pull out the internal guts to make a poor man's Thunderbolt dock with the Tbolt/USB/Ethernet board and some kind of external power. I've seen but not...

I've come into a clean PB G4 12" that doesn't boot. On powerup, I hear the HD start, and then I get fast system fans and nothing else. No chime, no activity on the screen. Doing PMU reset doesn't change anything with either battery in or battery out. It does seem to be charging the battery...