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Yeah, if the Mac has a rattle when picked up, it's probably a Maxell that's done its nastiest deed then corroded itself off the board...

As long as you purchase some vanilla good quality PC133 RAM (such as with Hynix, Samsung chips) it'll down clock fine to PC66, PC100 speeds

I'm not nearby any vintage Macs, but if you hold down option on the greyed out monitor section section in the DOS Compatibility control...

I'm tempted so say if it's working with consistent CPU temps, leave it but check there are no leaks. This involves taking out the LCS...

I tend to shuffle files between my 6500/TAM using either USB (slow 1.1 speeds but fine for little things), SCSI (real SCSI HD or SD...

No, it’s not that simple - I’ve been soldering for years and BGA swaps for CPU and GPU, RAM are the point where I opt out. You will need...

You can, Wegenerer Media was a store years back that did just that

Bonus time! It's amazing how we still find treasures like this when the pool of Macs is thinning out. My best surprise, years ago, was...

Probably not - Aluminium G4 PowerBooks, Snow G3/G4 iBooks tend to not fetch much, great Macs but not a goldmine.

That's not a great thing to find when delivered :( A working CPU will result in a chime, I'd inspect the CPU connector very slowly for...

That's popped out too? A thin sheet of flexible plastic might to, JB welded on the other side. But if really damaged = find a junk...

Lovely, can you please post your polariser store - I've a PB 550c in need.

Yeah looks like that stock HD is hosed, probably not worth keeping especially with bad blocks. Anything else in there will make the...

Nice ThinkPad - I was given a ThinkPad 770Z recently, that rubber plastic though ohhhh.

Yep you just don't see later 700 - 900Mhz iBooks around, they were so bad a common "repair" was to clamp or shim the GPU to get it to...