I’m hoping to save this 040 chip, soldered to one of @zigzagjoe’s QFP2PGA boards. I ground two corners with a Dremel to be able to attach repair wires to the missing pins, which were lost to corrosion. Might give you some ideas for yours @jmacz
My SE/30s are very ill. Stock PSU issues, mostly. They’re recapped, but their +5V rails are too low. I might try tweaking the voltage pot - but +12V is already quite high.
My PowerBook 165 keeps on finding new ways to piss me off. Now, it cold boots without sound or trackball/keyboard input. After doing a hard shutdown, and powering on again, it works normally. What in the hell… I’ve already replaced so many parts in this machine.
I disassembled my QuickTake 100 all the way, it has a tonne of electrolytic caps which I didn’t know about. Some are very well hidden. Anyone interested in a write-up?
I wanted to test out my PowerBook 100 series modems, so I got two of them talk to each other directly, with all the associated sounds of nostalgia. Only at 2400bps though
I got another of these 040s removed from a donor board in under a minute flat, with a Bosch heat gun from underneath. I gave it hell. @jmacz knows my pain, this glue is still all over the pins...
You can hook up a Classic board to an SE chassis (they’re different pinouts so you have to rewire) although the picture is overdriven and inverted. I bet it wouldn’t be too hard to make an adapter.