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While working on refurbishing a Macintosh Color Display M1212, I took the opportunity to record the electrolytic capacitors on the "analog board". There didn't seem to be any electrolytics on the neckboard. Location Capacitance (μF) Voltage (V) Diameter (mm) CF10 220 35 10 CF11 470 25 10...

If you ever had issues trying to get a 3rd Party CD drive to work in your Mac - this will be some required reading. Thanks to Anthony Saxton, the author of ClipDragon, it's now posible to have a single modified driver work with both Apple CD drives, and any other SCSI CD ROM drive. The...

Something i've been working on, is a list of all the Apple Custom ASIC's, where they're used, and also the pinouts of the chips in question. I've started with the Compact Macs so far, but i'll be expanding this over time. If anyone has access to internal Apple datasheets for any of these parts...

I came across this Wall Street Journal article by Johnny Ive today. I appreciated the warm sentiments Ive shared. I have always thought of Steve Jobs as a man greatly misunderstood, perhaps inspired by the fact I myself am often misunderstood. I sometimes say or write in a deliberately...