My friend asked me to fix up his old Portable and I'm giving it a shot. Done capacitor replacement jobs before (several), and replaced the capacitors with very few issues. There were a few traces where the cap goo was clearly under the soldermask, so I scraped off the mask, cleaned up the goo...
This is a request for anyone that has a late 2005 G5 with the factory Bluetooth install.
Due to the fact that the 'runway' card is basically impossible to find at a reasonable price, I'm looking for high resolution images of both sides of it.
This seems like the kind of thing that someone...
I figure it's better to have one thread for all instead of a thread each.
Yesterday I found a Smart and Friendly CD Copy Rocket Mach 12, complete in box! For $25. Imgur link: https://imgur.com/gallery/MwSZ3nq
This thing is a monster for its time. 12x SCSI CD burner and 32x SCSI CD reader. ...
Perhaps not as cool as some of the other conquests here, but I recently bought a PowerBook 190CS 'for parts' from eBay. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-Macintosh-PowerBook-190cs-Powers-on-Parts-or-Repair/263974755872)
Upon receipt of the laptop, I took it apart and what do you know? A...
Hello everyone,
I have a Quadra 610 DOS Compatible which I'm hoping to restore. This machine has been unused for years and was given to me by someone who just wanted the data from it (easy task, hard drive is fine). The power supply is in good shape, so that's helpful.
Symptoms:
* No video...