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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...