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Picked up an old IIci from my local junkyard and cleaned it up, recapped the motherboard, and cleaned up a bunch of corrosion from the leaked capacitors with my ultrasonic cleaner. I was able to boot it after that, and it ran for a while. However, I then had issues booting the machine. Messed...

I have recapped a Macintosh Portable for someone, but when I try to boot it, the screen looks as follows: What might be malfunctioning? The computer had rust damage on the inside and I ultrasonically cleaned the board, but it still does this. Any idea of what components I should look at on...

Upgraded my Performa 640CD from 16 Mb of Mac RAM to 52 Mb of Mac ram. The ram for the Dos portion was 32 Mb before and after the upgrade. After upgrading, the Macintosh System 7.5.1 portion seems to run without issue, but when I try to boot into the DOS portion, I get a blank screen. The DOS...

Picked up the top of the line 1.25 GHz iMac G4 from the junkyard, and everything on it was working except for the CD/DVD drive. When I pressed the eject button on the keyboard, nothing happened. In addition, I went to the command line mode on bootup (CMD+OPTION+O+F) and then typed in "eject cd"...

Found a Macintosh Plus for a really nice deal in my town; however, when I turn it on, all I see is a tiny white dot exactly in the center of the screen. Has anybody had this issue before? What is it possibly caused by, and how can I fix it?

Picked up a load of Model A1002 eMacs from the local junkyard. A couple of them are in very nice condition, but they do not boot at all. I opened them up, took a few boards out, and can't find any popped capacitors. Has anybody brought these back to life before? It would be interesting to know...

Picked up an old, very dusty Macintosh 7100/66 from a guy in Cincinnati about a year or so ago. Worked for a while but one day I heard some crackling noises coming from within the PSU. Unplugged it very quickly and cracked open the PSU to find the devastating scene in the attached photo. I...

I have a lot of old Apple/Macintosh equipment with a lot of broken plastic tabs. Is there any reliable method for gluing/welding model pieces? Any particular glue that bonds really well with the plastic? I'd love to learn about experiences from others. For myself, I can say that Testors brand...

Hello all! I just got a nice new 20SC external SCSI drive and connected it to my Sandwich II Card in the IIGS. The 20SC has been re-fitted with a 512 megabyte SCSI drive from IBM. My Sandwich II is in slot 1. I partitioned the HDD into two partitions using Apple II High Speed SCSI card...

I am trying to open up an old PowerBook 500 series AC adapter to recap it. However I can't find any instructions online of how to open one. Has anybody opened up one before? Are there any screws under the sticker need to undo first, or should I just start trying to ply the plastic open at the...

I am having trouble getting my LC II to connect to the internet. I am trying to connect directly via ethernet using an Asante MCiLC network card. I've installed all relevant drivers, and I am using Internet Explorer 4.0.1. I am using System 7.5.5. When I connect my Ethernet cable directly from...

On Macintosh computers with a thin disc slot (such as the LC II,) do disks need to be inserted in a special way? There seems to be no way for me to insert the disc fully into the drive without using a second disk as a kind of ram to seat the disc fully in the drive. Is there something wrong with...

Just re-capped a power supply and the board from an old LC II my dad had in the basement. At first, everything worked well (even after my sketchy solder job.) However, after a few reboots the computer stopped recognizing the hard disc. The bootup tone still plays, but the "?" disk icon shows up...