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    SE/30 cpu swap ?

    Anyone who is thinking about shelling out bucks for a long handled t-15, go to your nearest dollar store buy a t-15 driver (for a buck) then buy a 1/4 inch bit driver (for a buck) take the t-15 home and beat the handle off with a hammer or anything you can use to get to the metal part of the...
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    Enlighten me: SE/30 PDS slot?

    Anyone who is thinking about shelling out bucks for a long handled t-15, go to your nearest dollar store buy a t-15 driver (for a buck) then buy a 1/4 inch bit driver (for a buck) take the t-15 home and beat the handle off with a hammer or anything you can use to get to the metal part of the...
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    SE/30 cpu swap ?

    Anyone interested in researching and actually building an accelerator for the se/30? I'm up for it, and can solder pretty dang well, I just am not up with the tech know how:-) Right now I'm trying to duplicate a 68000-16 brainstorm upgrade my brother has, ROMS are the problem.
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    Mac Plus Clicking

    Hi, have you tried adjusting the voltage regulator below the display height adjustment? If you find out it's the Flyback, let me know I might have a spare I just have to dig through a few boxes.
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    Sad Mac 040002

    Thanks 128, I'm the one who did the repair, I traded my brother for a Bad Lisa board:) He's pretty good at that stuff but he had fried his new chips because he refuses to use sockets (just a little heat over a 15w iron destroys those things), in fact I have the board back because after you would...
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    Strange error code 128k Mac

    One more thing I should add, at first the code was 04A400, I replaced the RAM chip and the 400 error disappeared, leaving the 04A000, still indicating it is a memory failure, but what is with the "Alpha" in the code? Could it possibly be a RAM failure with more faults than can be logged into the...
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    Strange error code 128k Mac

    Hi, I've repaired many 128k logic boards in the past and know how to use the error code chart, or at least I thought I did. I keep getting an error code of 04A000? Does anyone have any idea what this means? Thanks in advance.
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    Early Mac schematic

    Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums but have been a collector for awhile (roughly mid 1994), and have been following these posts for several years, and I have have to say they have been a great help the last 14 months as my Macs have started dying in sequence, first the 128k, then the 512k...
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