Hello! Happy to have found this board! I suspect I will be spending a lot of time here!
Been a huge fan of the 68k macs since I bought my first LC in 1992. Now that I'm older, I've recently had the itch to get back into these classic machines, and managed to snag a Macintosh II and a IIfx off of craigslist! Sadly neither powered on - there was some cap leakage on the II, and the IIfx was missing both CPU and it's FPU. I spent a few months dusting off my soldering skills with some ... less expensive projects, and gave my shot at recapping the II and cleaning it up/restoring it.
Huzzah! It lives! Floppy drive is still a bit janky, so I may need to recap that as well. Managed to score an original High Resolution 13" display for it, and found a pristine ImageWriter II at the Puyallup hamfest near Seattle!
The original 40mb HDD in the II makes some .... interesting... noises, but it did power up and boot to 6.0.8! I quickly replaced it with an SCSI2SD.
I was also able to track down a CPU and FPU combo for the IIfx, and after inspecting the board and finding it looked in great shape, I gave it a shot - and it powered right up! I have an SCSI2HD on the way for it - I was lucky enough that while the drive didn't seem to work, it did have the "magic" SCSI filter attached to the drive. Now I just need to hunt down the elusive Black Terminator for the external side, and boy is *that* proving to be a pain.
Anyways, just thought I'd share my fun little projects here.
Been a huge fan of the 68k macs since I bought my first LC in 1992. Now that I'm older, I've recently had the itch to get back into these classic machines, and managed to snag a Macintosh II and a IIfx off of craigslist! Sadly neither powered on - there was some cap leakage on the II, and the IIfx was missing both CPU and it's FPU. I spent a few months dusting off my soldering skills with some ... less expensive projects, and gave my shot at recapping the II and cleaning it up/restoring it.
Huzzah! It lives! Floppy drive is still a bit janky, so I may need to recap that as well. Managed to score an original High Resolution 13" display for it, and found a pristine ImageWriter II at the Puyallup hamfest near Seattle!
The original 40mb HDD in the II makes some .... interesting... noises, but it did power up and boot to 6.0.8! I quickly replaced it with an SCSI2SD.
I was also able to track down a CPU and FPU combo for the IIfx, and after inspecting the board and finding it looked in great shape, I gave it a shot - and it powered right up! I have an SCSI2HD on the way for it - I was lucky enough that while the drive didn't seem to work, it did have the "magic" SCSI filter attached to the drive. Now I just need to hunt down the elusive Black Terminator for the external side, and boy is *that* proving to be a pain.
Anyways, just thought I'd share my fun little projects here.