pizzigri
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So I have started restoring my Macintosh IIfx.
it is a nice machine, sure there are sone in better conditions out there, mine is in what I’d presently would describe as B+. Well, maybe even A-.
in any case, waiting for the gears to replace both ruined ones in the floppy eject modules. The machine has 8mb of ram, a Supermac board that seems to work, a very nice and even collectible IBM 0662 1gb drive - these were considered ultra hi end at the time, and also Enterprise storage - that works great although noisy(I had this drive forever and it makes the same noise as new).
maybe I can get a nice network card too.
the case is not really yellow, it aged well, it is extremely uniform in color - never been retrobrighted. The shields inside are what I think pull rating a bit down.
i will recap the very few electrolithics as this was one of thise boards that came with all tantalums.
PSU works great, I did not recap it as it seems to be strong and very steady. Cleaned everything. I remember removing both batteries 20 plus years ago to use them in my everyday Mac, which was I think an 8600 or beige G3.... cant remember. But this saved the fx, as the logic board is essentially brand spanking new.
probably once done, I’ll put it for sale, I am having now problems keeping all the machines I have. Wife problems. lol
here are a couple pics, but many more will come.
it is a nice machine, sure there are sone in better conditions out there, mine is in what I’d presently would describe as B+. Well, maybe even A-.
in any case, waiting for the gears to replace both ruined ones in the floppy eject modules. The machine has 8mb of ram, a Supermac board that seems to work, a very nice and even collectible IBM 0662 1gb drive - these were considered ultra hi end at the time, and also Enterprise storage - that works great although noisy(I had this drive forever and it makes the same noise as new).
maybe I can get a nice network card too.
the case is not really yellow, it aged well, it is extremely uniform in color - never been retrobrighted. The shields inside are what I think pull rating a bit down.
i will recap the very few electrolithics as this was one of thise boards that came with all tantalums.
PSU works great, I did not recap it as it seems to be strong and very steady. Cleaned everything. I remember removing both batteries 20 plus years ago to use them in my everyday Mac, which was I think an 8600 or beige G3.... cant remember. But this saved the fx, as the logic board is essentially brand spanking new.
probably once done, I’ll put it for sale, I am having now problems keeping all the machines I have. Wife problems. lol
here are a couple pics, but many more will come.
