macintosh ii

In a recent video, I needed a good quality Macintosh II photo, so I upscale and hand-tweaked the best photo I could find on the net, and these two photos were the result. One photo is just of the Mac II only, with replacement graphics on the CRT added by me. The second is the same photo but...

I made this upscale of the magazine cover using cleanest and largest image I could find on the net, hoping to use my upscaled edition in a recent video, but I never did. Spent so much time on it I decided to upload it here as a Resource. However, if any of you own a real copy of that magazine...

I replaced the SMD electrolytics with tantalum caps on this Macintosh II board 820-0228-A. The board boots, and sound is good, but the video appears with a scrambled pattern. I can see the cursor move between the broken up columns. I'm using a known good Macintosh Display Card with correct DIP...

I recently discovered that my lack of boot chime on my Mac II was due to a bad speaker. I looked for some cheap 32 ohm speakers with a 56mm diameter, but the closest I found were these 40mm versions: uxcell 0.5 W 32 Ohm DIY Magnetic Speaker 40mm Round-Shape Replacement Loudspeaker for DVD/EVD...

I just finished swapping the orginal PSU fan for a Noctua (80mm, 12V DC, ULN) on my original and non-upgraded Macintosh II. When I did a smoke test the computer was dead as a dodo. The batteries read 2.48V (upper) and 0.87V (lower). I bought this computer from a friend and it was recapped last...