Apple STB1 Full Recap Guide

[jajan547]

Interesting info. This stuff is some of my favorite parts of the vintage apple hobby. So many unreleased projects that had neat, unique ideas. Like the WALT for instance. Or the touchscreen duo tablet I forget the name of.

I know right (Touchscreen Duo was the Freestyle) I absolutely love strange stuff like this! If you're interested I'll lend you one of my STB3's to tinker around with, very strange little systems.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

That’s a great offer! Perhaps in the future, would be neat to do a YouTube video on it. I’ve got too much going on at the moment though.

 

[jajan547]

That’s a great offer! Perhaps in the future, would be neat to do a YouTube video on it. I’ve got too much going on at the moment though.

Absolutely offer always stands would love to share this neatness with others.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I'll probably take you up on that at some point this year. Just want to make sure it's at a time where I'm sure I'll have the time to fully explore it relatively quickly so I don't end up keeping it too long, probably in the summer.
I also feel like I'd be terrified to touch it in fear of somehow damaging something! I'm surprised you aren't more worried about loaning it out to someone with how rare it is.

 

[jajan547]

I'll probably take you up on that at some point this year. Just want to make sure it's at a time where I'm sure I'll have the time to fully explore it relatively quickly so I don't end up keeping it too long, probably in the summer.
I also feel like I'd be terrified to touch it in fear of somehow damaging something! I'm surprised you aren't more worried about loaning it out to someone with how rare it is.

Absolutely offer always stands. I wouldn't be too worried these are pretty simple machines and aren't that delicate. These are actually probably one of the easier prototypes to find. The one here still hasn't been recapped and was a PAL region machine. It works on an NTSC monitor using a Composite to HDMI adapter but I get bad color bleed with a grayscale type color. It could be the capacitors going bad or just that it doesn't like my NTSC monitors and TVs. I also printed the schematics in a nice book in card stock so it's handy to have. Im also going to print a nice card stock book of the User manual.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I have an old pretty small LCD TV with composite input that would probably work I'd imagine?

 

[jajan547]

I have an old pretty small LCD TV with composite input that would probably work I'd imagine?

Works fine with any NTSC monitor just possible color bleed or graying of the colors/some blur. but otherwise perfectly useable. I'll have to take a photo of what the secret menu looks like too.