Recent content by Verdant

The Iici is probably my favorite 68k Mac, it was a solid design and had such a long life. Such a shame I lost my IIfx (it was actually a Mac II with IIfx guts in it, it came that way from NASA) - my dad threw it away because my teenage computer collection (various Apple IIs, a couple PC XTs, an...

Well, I'm going to decap/clean/recap the older board first, and see if I get anywhere. But the new board will also get recapped so it doesn't suffer any further damage. I think my biggest worry is the trace rot on the older board - some of the traces are black in a few spots.

I've been lurking for years, but this is my first post.  :b&w: Unfortunately, it's mostly bad news. Many years ago (c.1998), as a teenager, A friend of mine bought a bunch of 68k Macs at auction from a NASA facility that surplussed off a bunch of computers. I traded a brand new copy of Red...