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Quick update on this machine, in which things get even more confusing - I yanked the SWIM and transplanted it onto my personal machine's logic board and it works fine, confirming the SWIM is not bad. I also went through and traced each pad and didn't find anything open or testing unusual to my...

Hi all, I have a Macintosh Classic here I have been working on for a friend during the past few weeks, and at every step of the process it has fought tooth and nail to stay dead! I am at a point now where it has an issue I've never seen before and am not sure how to go about fixing, or even...

No, sorry - prices for Color Classics are insane these days, and I'd be afraid I wouldn't be able to find another reasonably-priced unit. I plan on hanging on to it for a while.  :smiley:

Apologies for the very late post, but here's the other 512K I picked up a little while back. This one is pretty beat up and obviously led a hard life...it's never a good sign when you open the package and immediately get a whiff of nicotine. Gross.  :O I bought this machine as it, like the...

Sweet find! Praying that the flyback stays good for many years to come...  :)

It's been a little while since I last embarked on any conquests, but recently a pair of packages came in the mail bearing gifts! Namely a pair of 512K's with some neat upgrades.  ;-D The first system that arrived is a 512Ke with a Computer Care Mac Rescue RAM/SCSI upgrade board installed. This...

I'm...actually not sure, sorry.  :sadmac:  I can open it up tomorrow and grab a picture of the "track" which the caddy slides into, if it would help.

Are you referring to the stepper motor that drives the heads? I've had to oil that motor to resurrect a few MiniScribes before, as the heads were having a lot of trouble trying to seek. Clock oil works like a charm for this type of thing, use a hypodermic needle and inject some oil into the...

In my vintage computing adventures, I've been acquiring more Mac-related equipment as of recent, and since this forum has a dedicated category for posting about stuff you find in the wild, why not start my own?  :beige: To start off the thread, this beautiful Color Classic came in the mail...

Alright, I've been working on this Plus for the past few days, and some small updates: After making an incredibly stupid mistake on my part (do NOT work on computers when half asleep, kids) the analog board would no longer function at all, and immediately blew the fuse when the power switch was...

Hello all -  For the past few days I've been wrestling with this Macintosh Plus that has some serious analog board issues. When turned on, the system does not chime - it is completely silent. It appears to be dead, however, if the brightness is cranked up nearly to the max, a very distorted...

Thank you so much for sharing! Now I suppose I should dig the card out again and see if I can get it working properly.

I believe I have his card.... :p I purchased mine from Singapore and he seems to be located there as well. (Also, @CC_333 - what he said, thanks a lot for the offer...might take you up on it.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't PDS cards made for the SE and SE/30 incompatible with each other due to the different clock speeds and such? I've seen cards specifically labeled "for SE" and "for SE/30." I'm fiddling with an original model SE.

An interesting update...it seems that my card may actually be physically broken. The power LED on my AUI transceiver does not turn on when plugged in, and when making sure I was getting sufficient power, I discovered there is only around 3.45 volts on pin 13 of the connector, where there should...

Hello all -  Recently I purchased a Dove FastNet SE ethernet card for my SE FDHD from eBay as it was listed for a decent price and I have been wanting to mess with networking and compact Macs. It arrived today, and after cleaning up what appears to have been a botched recap job performed by a...