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I recently bought a lot of LCs, which includes the MediaVision PAS16 sound card, in its LC PDS variation. The only problem is that the Macintosh versions of the PAS16, unlike the ISA PC version, does not have any audio jacks on the card itself. Instead, it has a DB-15 port that connects to a...

As you might have recently seen, I've acquired a Quadra 700 that seemingly had a dead power supply. I've since done some more testing, and I'd like to know whether I just got a case of bad caps, or something more. In the machine, when powering up, the speaker would make some pops, each spaced...

Just the other day, I bought a Color Classic through a Japanese proxy on Mercari. It wasn't very expensive, and even with proxy fees, shipping and import duties, I'll likely be cheaper off than on eBay. I've always wanted a CC, and in the two years I've had a search alert set up on a Dutch...

I've decided to recap my SE/30 today. I used tantalum capacitors, namely these for the 10x 47uF, 16V caps, and this for the single 1uF, 50V capacitor (holding off on the axials until I have a proper desolder gun, and I think the axials don't really leak much anyways). Well, after doing it with...

Something that I've been thinking about recently, given I'm trying to piece together my Classic II again, just waiting for a new logic board to swap in, is making an FPU card for the Classic II once I have it all up and running again. It would truly make the Classic II a "Mac SE/30 Lite"...

So I saw an SE/30 for sale locally, and something got me quite, quite curious. It appears to have some sort of PDS card, but it has a single DSUB connector, seemingly the E size of DSUB. The picture is pretty poor, so I can't tell how many pins this connector has. Also, it seems like there's a...

I recently finally got around to recapping my SE/30. It wasn't a pretty job, but I got it to at least audibly boot again. Of course, I didn't get any video, so I went ahead and ordered a 74LS166 chip and swapped it. While my swap job wasn't very pretty either, and it took a few tries resoldering...

A while back, I got a really cheap SCSI Archive DDS-1 tape drive. I had hoped that this model would be flashable to a special firmware to allow it to play and record audio DATs, but I later found out this model hasn't been confirmed to work for this purpose. However, in the meantime, I found a...

Hello all, I had a bit of a crazy idea for repurprosing my dead Classic II. Now, to do this, I'd have to be able to feed a VGA 31KHz signal to the internal B/W CRT in the Mac. Of course, it doesn't take that, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how I could modify the CRT driver to allow this? One...

A while back when I bought a bundle of Mac stuff, one of the included peripherals was a Sonnet Crescendo L2 upgrade card (the TAM/6500/etc. one). I have no way to test it due to not having a compatible Mac, and am planning on selling it on, but the problem is that it didn't come with the...

So now that I've gotten my hands on a Macintosh SE/30 to fix up, I went and checked the seller's conclusion on what was wrong it. According to him, the CRT wouldn't come on, and he suspected the analog board. To put that theory to the test, I swapped boards between my working SE, and the SE/30...

Since I've started acquiring more and more 68k and PowerPC Macs, I suppose opening a personal conquests thread is appropriate  ;D Now, I've had a lot of good finds in the past, and I might make posts about them here, but I'll denote them as old finds as to not create any confusion  ;)...

So recently I've been parting out two iMac G3s, a trayloader 333MHz Tangerine, and a slotloader Indigo 400MHz. The Indigo's colored shell has been transplanted to a Graphite, since I own two functional Graphites next to the dead Indigo, and I'd rather have two different colored ones that are...

Today I visited the Apple Museum of the Netherlands, in Orvelte. Although I loved the tour of the museum given to me by the owner Klaas, a real cool dude who knows his Apple stuff very well, I was invited because I had put up an ad looking for broken Macintoshes to repair. My idea is to buy up...