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TD Game server going offline for maintenance and upgrade at 1900hrs UK time - should be up by 2100hrs UK time

Grew up in 8 bit times with Radio Shack Mod1 and Mod3. Never had a Macintosh until I bought my first one from eBay in 2000. I have 14 now and 2 Lisa Mac XL's. I'm retiring soon and will spend my new time learning how to replace capacitors for these.

Picked up this sweet WinBook XL laptop up off eBay. Desktop Pentium MMX, floppy and CD built in, and a real OPL3.

Good morning. I saw your site on Mac84 tonight and noticed you needed a IIci logic board photo for your capacitor page. I'm prepping for recapping this one so I thought I would grab a shot and send it your way for inclusion on your site.
FYI, your IIci page states the axials are 16v, but mine are 25v nichicon SE(M) series.

Thanks!
- MrTechGadget

And also fun fact: The 170 is the best System 6 laptop Apple ever made - and one of the few able to run it, along with the Portable, 100, 140, and the 145!

Just soldered up and installed a V2 BlueSCSI into my PowerBook 170 - it’s had it hinge mounts replaced, RAM maxed to 8MB, and now this. Just need to replace its interconnect board to get internal sound working again and it’s finished.

Thanks to @jcm-1 for his assembled BlueSCSI complete with LED. Massive performance increase on my SE/30.
The Speedometer 3 scores for the Internal and External BlueSCSI on are the left side of the screenshots compared with the SCSI2SD.

Hi Steve,

Got a Mac Iifx revA board with bonded batteries, has been on its side while this happened, at visual inspection after cleaning it seems traces were minimal damaged but the goop went al over the board between the ram slots and the back plater and a lot of the chip pons are damaged/corroded.

Most boards I see are Rev B boards, would it be worth the effort to repair?

Just attached some photo's

Time to sell up as much as I can - i'll be posting a few FS threads in the coming days.

Thanks to @JDW and his excellent video on recapping the Mac SE & SE/30 power supply. My recap passed the smoke test and I was able to successfully adjust the voltage.

"Fat Mac Switcher" in development. In a sense, it may be a useless product in 2023

It features:
-512K and 128K switching is possible. LED lights when 512KB is used
-Supports ROM-inator Resurrections
-Supports BMOW FloppyEMU
-Support SYSTEM 6.0.8 (at 512KB)
-HD20 support *FloppyEMU available

Hiya, looks like I'll be getting a board thanks to fred1212!

Shoot me your PayPal addy and I'll get the gift money right off. Shipping locale is 27523.

The PowerBook 3400c's power board is right under the trackpad, and as such heats it up quite a bit after running for a while! Heated trackpads should be a real feature, my fingers can get pretty chilly in the basement, and the trackpad actually can help haha.

It's that time of year again!

My Power Macintosh 9600/300 build is finally complete!


I've replaced the CPU with a Sonnet Crescendo G4 @ 400MHz with 1MB L2 cache, replaced the stock ixMicro Twin Turbo with a Sapphire Radeon 7000 with the full Mac ROM (swapped ROM chip) and the March 2002 Radeon driver. On top of that, i've managed to scrape together 512MB of the MOST ridiculously hard to find, and most insanely priced RAM ever - 8 x 64MB 168-pin 5v EDO DIMM's.

I have a Sonnet Tango 2.0 to go in it next, and i want to try and flash the Adaptec 2940 U2W I have to get some native 68-pin SCSI action going on in there. Then - I think I need a DEC-21140 based PCI NIC to add to it because the onboard 10Mbit is just painfully slow at transferring ISO's and .toast files over.

My original setup in 1995 at college. I scraped together as much cash as I could, sold my Centris 650 (that machine was the true OG for me, where it all began) and got my girlfriend to charge the rest for me. It was a discounted 6100/66 from the school's bookstore. It was a real workhorse and I upgraded just about everything I could on it. Hope it's still out there.

TIL: A fast 68030 CAN play MP3 files, but will not smoothy play through anything higher than 32kbps, so they don't sound too good!

This product has been sold out. The next batch will arrive at the end of this month. Thank you!