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I've got a 7100/80 and primarily use the PDS video card with additional 2MB VRAM to drive my monitor (an old NEC 1024x768 LCD that works really well for this system). I've got 72MB RAM, running Mac OS 9.1, and using a BlueSCSI v2 for my HD needs. My problem is that the cursor frequently...

I have been working on this //e for a while now and after a Tantalum blow itself apart and I sorted a faulty DRAM out plus the obligatory PSU repairs, I thought I had a good main board until that is I plugged it into composite video as per the attached photo. It’s fine via both my VGA card and...

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...

Couldn't resist picking up one of these for just £9! I recently got an InWin case I've been after for 24 years, courtesy of @Stinkerton18 so I have the idea to do the build I had before project Middlesex and what better place to start? Project Letchworth is a go, too! Of course this was...

I have an LC III that boots and runs normally, but the internal speaker doesn't work. Well, at least I thought it didn't at first. External audio works; I heard the startup chime, quacks, and wild eeps through headphones. By accident I was pushing the headphone jack while turning it back on...

A little something to usher in the Christmas cheer. Merry Christmas, folks! ⛄🌟🎅🎄

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...

Introduction So I’ve bought a known defect SE/30. I got it for about €70 with the carrying bag, some documentation and original (and blank) floppies. An over all OK deal. It was known from the listing that the screen was black. When I started the computer for the first time the screen was black...

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 ordered a 296-33968-5-ND SN74LS166AD from Digi-key to replace my UE8 chip in my SE/30. When I look at the backorder status, it says March 2023! Wow! Is there another chip that will work? Does anyone have one they want to sell? I can confirm that this chip is too big: 296-SN74LS166ANSRCT-ND...

In my SE/30 I have a MicroMac DiiMO 50MHz 68030 PDS accelerator card with an Asanté MacCon PDS Ethernet card plugged into its PDS pass-through. I recently acquired a RasterOps ColorBoard 264/30 and was intending to swap it in for the MacCon. When I install it on top of the MacCon and turned the...

Just picked up an LC 575 to use for my Mystic Color Classic upgrade. I was told it would power on but no image, so I thought maybe the analog board may be bad, which didn't concern me too much since I just want the logic board from it. However, when I got it home, I was pleasantly surprised to...

Hi all, maybe can be good to have subforum for displaying outputs from vintage (mosty) 8-bit computers (S-video=Y/C, RGB, video=composite...) on modern LCDs with either help of cheap convertors, FPGAs... or on special monitors with "vintage" inputs etc. I'm using some retrocomputers (C64, C128...