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    W?here to meter other voltages Color Classic analogue board post recap

    Hi everyone Grateful to have 68KMLA going strong. Jeremy from Australia Am doing a comprehensive service of my colour classics, re-capping the power supplies and enjoying it. I have put together my own cap list, resistor upgrades and taken notes. One thing I can't work out is where I can...
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    Brand New Laserwriter IINTX

    No idea but cool story. Honestly I'm glad to hear people still finding stuff like this. I do have repair manuals for this on my public repo https://jbretro.wordpress.com/the-latest-google-drive-link/ Open the Gdrive link and search laserwriter
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    BGE's take on the Quadra 900/950 ATX PSU Mod

    Well I've just bought a Quadra 950 that turns on for a second and then each second it drops power and fans spin down, next second up, then down.  Poor PSU must be suffering in there so I killed power quickly and started searching online.  And here we are!  Reading your journey from the first...
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    Power Mac 7300 issues post tantalum

    Subject: Power Macintosh 7300 stops working after tantalum recap Hi Everyone I decided to replace the electrolytic caps on my favourite Power Macintosh 7300 computer and unfortunately it hasn’t turned on since!  I’m writing for help on what to check or do, as I exhausted all checks that I can...
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    My apple IIe card is defective! Why?

    Please note there is a critical typo in the first post.  The capacitor values are 22uf 35v, NOT 25v. Thank you Jeremy from Australia. 
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    Colour Classic VGA -OUTPUT- mod / add in VGA cable

    Hi Everyone I have picked my fourth Colour Classic today.  The CRT needs replacing as I think the blue gun / colour has completely dropped out.  I have previously converted an Apple //c monitor to LCD by using only the shell and adding in video controllers etc.  The video controller accepts VGA...
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    M1296 12" Macintosh RGB monitor warning

    Hi everyone A recent project has been servicing my Apple 12" Macintosh RGB monitor M1296 made by Mitsubishi.  I have two of them in mint condition, both known to have minimal use.  I turn them on every 3 months or so and keep a diary simply 'Working great! 01/01/2018".  Well I went to test one...
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    50% conquest - Color Dark Castle

    Really?  I thought I had it for OS X, it's in a time machine backup somewhere
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    DB-19 Hot Juicy Awesomeness

    I was wondering how this situation would be managed.  Glad you bit the bullet
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    Floppy Emu, need help please to convert diskcopy 6.3 to 4.2

    Hi! 68KMLA forum members never cease to amaze - thank you for the instruction, consideration and time in replying.  I no longer have to worry what disk images will show up on the Floppy Emu as I can prepare them beforehand should they be a DC6 format.  Looks like it's time to learn Basilisk as...
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    Floppy Emu, need help please to convert diskcopy 6.3 to 4.2

    Hi everyone It seems my $230 device can't read standard DiskCopy 6 files.  It simply ignores any disk images even with the file extension .img The ever fast in replying Steve from BMOW suggets compatibility is only raw (.dsk) and disk copy 4.2 (.img) files, and if I'd like to use DiskCopy 6...
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    PowerBook 1400c and mSATA SSD

    I too am interested in this.  The CF solution is great and I wonder if better performance would come of MSATA drives.  Both my PB1400's have CF IDE solutions now
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    Books

    Gill!  I'm excited becuase I too love these technical books.  Very hard to find in Australia now.  We should compare titles
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    M0403 Apple Universal Monitor Stand

    Thank you so very much for documenting your stand and detailing your observatios.  It sure matches the portrait display beautifully.
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    AU: Colour Classic in Canberra, not powering on until...

    3 Photos showing before and after and case should display below but can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/7NyGF The latest addition to my personal Macintosh collection is the Colour Classic.  The only description the younger seller gave was it didn’t turn on.  Not being one to gamble I was...
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