Macintosh Portable M5126

[LarBob]

Hey guys, I just received a Macintosh Portable M5126. I bought a battery from 360alaska and it works very well. 

Battery pictures (thanks, alaska!):


Booting up:


It'll probably need to be recapped soon. It also came with the original carrying case which is really cool. 

 

[Carboy7]

That's a pretty good find! Say, is it backlit?

 

[LarBob]

That's a pretty good find! Say, is it backlit?

Yep, it's the backlit model.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Awesome find!

You should have it recapped NOW before it's too late. As I'm sure techknight will tell ya, bad caps can cause some permanent damage to particular chips.

Finding a working portable is quite rare, and believe me you don't want to run into problems with this thing!

 

[LarBob]

Awesome find!

You should have it recapped NOW before it's too late. As I'm sure techknight will tell ya, bad caps can cause some permanent damage to particular chips.

Finding a working portable is quite rare, and believe me you don't want to run into problems with this thing!

Also, the floppy doesn't eject properly so I have to manually do it. Has it just grown weak with time?

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Is the mechanism sticky? You should re-lube that drive anyway. Also, you should check the worm shaft, sometimes it gets clogged up.

I don't think the eject motor is to blame, but perhaps the caps are... (As always when something is wrong, could be caps)

 

[LarBob]

Is the mechanism sticky? You should re-lube that drive anyway. Also, you should check the worm shaft, sometimes it gets clogged up.

I don't think the eject motor is to blame, but perhaps the caps are... (As always when something is wrong, could be caps)

I was thinking it could have been the caps too, yeah. Thanks.

 

[LarBob]

By the way, it's also hard to get the floppy out manually. It takes quite a few tries to get it out using the manual eject hole. The machine is also reluctant to turn on and I have to hold those 2 programmer buttons on the side usually.

 

[bibilit]

Floppy drive is stuck and caps are on their way out, don't wait too much.

 

[LarBob]

Floppy drive is stuck and caps are on their way out, don't wait too much.

I'm probably gonna have to do it myself since I don't really have the spare money to pay for the repair + shipping. 

Thankfully he has a cap list on his site!

 

[bibilit]

I you have never done it yourself keep in mind that there is a lot of caps to replace and some are very close from each other.

 

[LarBob]

I you have never done it yourself keep in mind that there is a lot of caps to replace and some are very close from each other.

Yeah, I'll be sure to be careful. Definitely don't want to hurt this beauty!