compact mac

Hi there. Are there any guides, instructions and component lists available for purchasing a small fan for installation into the rear of the Plus chassis? I've seen various custom mods but nothing a novice can immediately follow.

I have been questing for a SE/30 for many years. I now have one, and have been looking around online and see the incredible skills being put to good use with ROM swaps. Recapping the motherboard to making upgrade cards (last I checked, that was the realm of Big Tech). I would really appreciate...

Hello! :) I tried to find if there was a thread already here on Tinker Different about this but have not. Some people did talk about it elsewhere, though. So, here I go. I understand that many like to keep the Compact Macs the way it was back in the day. On the other hand, I want to give them...

I recently picked up a Mac Plus that had been updated with a Total Systems 68030 accelerator board. On powering it up, I get a nice clear startup chime, but no video. The floppy is toast, but I can see activity on my FloppyEmu when I have it plugged in. I've independently tested the CRT (it...

Dear Tinkerers, I've recently bought a Bluescsi for my Macintosh Plus. However, Every disk image I could find online for the mac plus was System 7.0 and up. (system 7 and up requires 4MB of ram) My mac plus has only 2mb ram installed. I was able to get it running on 7.5.5 but now I have less...

I do a little bit of work on compact mac logic boards and found I needed a convenient way to power them up and get video without fussing with a case, so I made this adapter which allows me to use an ATX power supply and an RGBtoHDMI. Referring to the schematics for the 512k, you will see the...

I purchased this Mac 128k logic board knowing it wasn't working. I've poked at it a little over the last 6 months, which includes: Building a 4164 DRAM tester and testing the original DRAM. I found 2 were faulty but ended up replacing them all. Swapping the LS166 @ F14 & F15 (example board...