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I got two early 2000 iMac G3. Both of them are in different need of repair. One powers up perfectly but has a cracked case and a scratched screen. The other one looks way better but does not power on. I could make one good machine out of the two but rather would try to repair the non-working...

I was renovating one of my Compact Macs floppy disk drive. Its gear broke in pieces. I took the chance to clean and grease it. Upon reconnect it i heard a short electrical crackling. I imeadiately shut down the machine. Upon inspecting i found an broken/chipped component on the disk drives PCB...

I got myself a lot of three LC475 and one LC. One is missing its RAM and VRAM modules, the others are complete. The batteries are flat, so I cannot test them right away. The boards look dusty but okay and they do not have any signs of cap leakage. I'd like to ask if the later LCs are also prone...

Another part in my SE30 journey. I assembled the machine and tested it. A few days ago I cleaned/lubed the floppy drive, a Sony MP-F75W, as per https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LWfjsvc8OA. In the assembled machine the drive worked at first. I could read data and write data, initialize disks...

I'm in the process of re-assembling my new SE30. I recapped the analog board an and did an initial smoke test. An old HDD did spin up, so I think I didn´t screw up the analog board while recapping. I did not touch anything inside the PSU at the moment. I checked the voltages with nothing...

When things work out the way I hope I soon will have an second compact Mac, an SE30 in good working order. I want to equip this machine with an BlueSCSI and want to use it as some sort of bridge machine for my other compact Mac. I learned that a simple Mini DIN can be used build a machine to...

Hello there, I'm new to the classic Mac world and bought me an SE FDHD recently. Unfortunately this was battery bombed and probably beyond repair. I got me a replacement motherboard which once was an original Apple repair part. The board does look ununsed. I installed 4 identical 1MB SIMM...