Ranma-chan
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Hi guys! I posted in a vintage subreddit a few months ago about a Mac I got my hands on for cheap at a flea market, and was told to refer to y'all for more information on what I could do. The Mac in question was a good ol' Macintosh IIsi. It showed its age pretty well, it was yellowed everywhere and had copious amounts of dried tobacco tar in the fans and stuff; but a bit of liberal cleaning restored the beauty of a vintage Macintosh. It powers on and seems to work fine, but one of the biggest obstacles I've faced thus far is the problem of a proper display.
I had purchased a Mac-to-VGA video inverter on the internet and wasn't very surprised to find that it doesn't work at all, and finding an affordable Apple-compatible monitor is like pulling one's teeth.
Any advice to be given on this matter? I'd really like to revive this IIsi and see what's on the original 40MB SCSI hard drive.
Here is what the motherboard looked like after I took her home. I've torn it down to see if any of the capacitors were bulging or leaking, and fortunately, none were. The machine seems to happily turn on without exploding or smoking or catching fire or what have you, but I can't see what it's doing (and the IIsi's notorious speaker problems have rendered the poor thing mute. )
Anyway, I'd appreciate advice on what to do with it.
Also, for posterity: My reddit thread about it and the follow-up
I had purchased a Mac-to-VGA video inverter on the internet and wasn't very surprised to find that it doesn't work at all, and finding an affordable Apple-compatible monitor is like pulling one's teeth.
Any advice to be given on this matter? I'd really like to revive this IIsi and see what's on the original 40MB SCSI hard drive.
Here is what the motherboard looked like after I took her home. I've torn it down to see if any of the capacitors were bulging or leaking, and fortunately, none were. The machine seems to happily turn on without exploding or smoking or catching fire or what have you, but I can't see what it's doing (and the IIsi's notorious speaker problems have rendered the poor thing mute. )
Anyway, I'd appreciate advice on what to do with it.
Also, for posterity: My reddit thread about it and the follow-up
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