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I scored two G4 12 inch Powerbooks today, one 1.5Ghz, one 1.33Ghz that will be used for parts.

Where are you? I just did mine with tantalums.

what wire do you use for a bodge? I was thinking of pulling apart a cat 6 cable, but that seems like way more copper than is needed.

I got my dad's old IIcx and have been trying to bring it back to life. I re-capped and there was a fair amount of goo near the capacitors, but no battery bomb. I have de-soldered and cleaned and re-soldered anything near the caps, but it's not working. After getting my multi meter out, I am...

I started to look at the traces and realized that there is some damage to the board. It looks like scrapes as if it was in a big scrap pile or something. I am going to go ahead and solder dip sockets in place of the ROMs and then I can move them over and try them out. If they don't work, I...

Yes, W1 is present, though I rotated the jumber to make the BMOW sim work. Good point on the traces. Luckily I have the reloaded board already, so if they traces are bad, that will solve itself.

I put my BMOW ROM in there and it started up from the ROM disk no problem, so I think my hunch about the ROM is correct. Max offered to sell me the ROM ICs but I foolishly declined. Time to get those on order!

that is definitely a possibility. I will bring a BMOW ROM in tomorrow and try it out. If that works, are there replacement ROM options? I am planning on putting in DIP sockets anywhere I can with the reloaded board.

So it wasn't chiming at all, so I reflowed everything and a couple of the chips near where the old capacitors were. I have a chime now and it immediately it does chimes of death. This is regardless of RAM configuration. I can repeat with no RAM, four simms in bank A and with 8 simms in A and...

So I have a little collecting beige boxes problem. My dad's first (and my first) computer is a IIcx. He had a processor riser card added to give it a cache slot where he then installed a Mobius Speedster. I still have the IIcx. While reconnecting with this hobby, I decided to recap my old IIci...

@nathall, is it awesome?

Dibs

About 9 months ago, my wife and I adopted our son. This has been the biggest life change I have experience so far, and I found myself doing an interesting type of nesting. I found myself worried about my son getting online and ruining his brain, so my line of thinking was I'd be better off...

Is this a Mac 512k or does it have more horsepower?

I also have a rominator and floppyemu as well.

I am starting to plan for Christmas, and I want to upgrade my IIci some more. I have more RAM than I need. I have an 040 accelerator on the way, a couple of zuluscsi adapters - 1 internal, 1 external slim for networking and CD images. I am thinking a video card is next, but I know the nubus...

That's pretty cool!

I don't know how to say this - you all are incredibly talented and I am impressed. I was hoping to hear this would be a relatively easy task, and I am happy to know why it hasn't been done yet. Thank you all for the information and contributing to this community!

I think I am understanding this correct - We could re-design a reproduction board for a IIci to have the cache slot and a 030 PDS that could then use the 30Video as referenced and that may be easiest? What would making a clone of the Thunder card look like? On a complete tangent, my other...

I will start by stating - I know this is a stupid request and using any sort of Quadra would be easier, cheaper, or whatever. My late father had a IIcx that was modified with a CPU riser to have a Mobius Speedster with an LC'040 chip on it. Unfortunately, I have lost that accelerator to time...