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    Damaged Mac motherboard

    Y1 it's probably 32.768khz then, it's a fairly common value :)
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    Damaged Mac motherboard

    Thank everyone for the advices. I'm looking forward to buy a new motherboard, but meanwhile as I said I'm going to try to work a bit on this one too. Does anyone know how what that Y1 component is/was? Or at least if there's something writteng on it to help its identification. Also, do anyone...
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    Damaged Mac motherboard

    :( Sigh. It took so long to find a Compact Mac... In Italy, Apple never sold much, until the advent of OSX and iPod and all that stuff. Well, I'll post the result of the acid cleaning tomorrow, and try to check the traces with a multimeter anyway. Except for the hours spent working on, it...
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    Damaged Mac motherboard

    Hello everyone, I bought my first 68k Mac (a Classic) last week and now... I'm here :) The problem is, while the case was in perfect condition, once opened it revealed an horrible mess: the battery leaked its acid on the mainboard, and now I'm trying to save (should I say resurrect?) this...
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