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Hello everyone, This has been a long time coming... presenting the Macintosh SE/30 Vertical & Horizontal Bars on Display "Simasima" Repair Guide!! 🎉 This is a FREE downloadable PDF document (~55 MB) filled with high-resolution pictures and technical details. You can find this PDF file...

I've just acquired a SE/30 in decent condition… super excited! Yes, I plan on pulling and recapping it asap! Any recommendations on that would be appreciated (though I am looking into doing it myself) I was hoping to get it networked so it can at least FTP to a modern machine, but it's hard to...

This is my first post on the forum, and to start off in style, I'd like to share with the community my YouTube video on the iconic Apple M0110, the keyboard that accompanied the first Macintosh! I don't want to come across as someone who takes advantage of the situation by spamming people with...

Hey all, I wanted to share something neat I picked up at VCF Midwest this year, a Tecmar Mac Drive, perhaps the first external hard drive for the Macintosh. This drive uses a serial port to connect to the Mac, and some software shenanigans to get around the storage size limitations of the...

Hello! I recently acquired what I was told was a 128k Mac, the box has labels saying 512k. It didn’t come with the accessory box, it boots up but shows a question mark floppy disc icon, I don’t have any floppy’s either. what would be the best way to easily identify what I have? I don’t know...

Manual for the Mac-Cable-Check cable & connector testing device. Contains a classic Mac cable compatibility table and pin-outs.

I would like to know on how to adjust the CRT on a Macintosh SE (800k) The picture was when I rebuilt the machine way back in October of 2024 with a replacement analog board since the original analog board failed due a bad flyback transformer and a weak PSU that was dying The right corner of...

Hello, I've been asking and searching for YEARS, and the hunt continues for someone who can repair my unique NeXT MegaPixel 17" Color Display. This is the very late-released, hard to find Trinitron version & it is essentially a rebadged Sony GDM-1632 / 1634. The service manual exists online &...

I had an orphan LCII motherboard sent my way recently that was more than happy to be alive after some trace repairs and a recap. I also happened to have a spare PSU from a customer that had no home. But I didn't have a case! what to do? simple answer, order the Creality Falcon 2 laser...

Hello all, As someone who repairs a lot of systems, the CUDA / EGRET microcontroller chip is one of those pieces that is getting harder and harder to replace. It would be amazing if these chips could be replaced by a modern solution so we can save more 68k / PowerPC Macs! I was doing some...

Hi, I have been working on restoring a Macintosh Iici for some time, and I've hit kind of a roadblock. After swapping battery-bombed motherboard with a recapped one, I have been able to install successfully an E-Machines Futura II NuBus video card, an Asante Ethernet card, a cache card, a...

Hey all, hoping someone can give me a bit of a steer on a problem I am trying to solve with an SE/30 I picked up last week. The logic board itself thankfully had a non-leaking original battery installed which I was relieved about - but the capacitors had done some pretty serious leaking, and...

One of the lesser-known compact Mac cooling fans is called Mac N' Frost. I found the Mac N' Frost interesting compared to the more mainstream Fanny Mac and the Kensington fans for the 128k, 512k, and Plus. Introducing the Mac N' Frost! Designed by Roy Hicks and marketed by RH Electronics in...

I was browsing the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website and came across this "Black & Bleu Version 10 with License" article about a program that comprehensively lists errors and Sad Mac codes with information and details. So, I headed over to the Macintosh Garden. I was intrigued. So, I downloaded the Black...

I obtained the new BlueSCSI v2 DB25 external SD drive from @Androda, so I could use it to install various operating systems, software, and other files on different Macs with the DB25 SCSI port. I placed the following images on it: Mac Apps Mac Games Legacy Recovery The Apple Legacy Recovery...

One of my favorite games is Arkanoid. :) I understand that Arkanoid 1.0 is 24-bit and runs under System 6, not System 7. I know a patch can be done to make it run under System 7, maybe with caveats. Then, I noticed some people have Arkanoid 1.10 that would run under System 7. Is that 32-bit...

Hello! I've been working on my Mac Plus for a month and I got this issue out of nowhere. (The diagonal lines are from the camera) As you can see, the display is very compressed vertically, strange display resolution. I tried adjusting the height potentiometer, but it's maxed out, if i turn it...

Hello! A few weeks ago I posted here and i was able to fix all the problems I got (link here). Last week I went and started playing around the floppy drive (i had it appart while fixing the computer itself). Tried inserting a floppy with the 6.8.1 and it just didn't read and couldn't even eject...

Hello there! A few days ago I got a Mac Plus for like 40€, but it's not working (I knew that when buying it). I've been looking in this and other forums, videos, manuals, and I can't really find the issue. This is what my Mac Plus is doing: Normally, i press turn on button, and theres no chime...

Starting with this post, I found that Snooper 2 has some interesting motherboard photos, worthy of extraction. If you follow that discussion, you will see that it concluded with the finding that we cannot extract them from the PICT resource of the Snooper app. The only reasonable method of...