Recent content by akaitea

No particular reason except its much more available, cheaper and with cheaper shipping from Japan than from anywhere else for me, I'm in Serbia. Came out to around €45 shipped for keyboard and about €20 shipped for mouse and mousepad. The motherboard came from there too, all using yahoo auctions...

Some more stuff arrived, now it is complete with mousepad and everything. Just to get caps and repairs done and I can try and fire it up

Thanks for the info, I was wondering what to do about that as I don’t anticipate I'll find a new cage, seems I'll have to connect the grounding points on the board to the cage too somehow

Just want to provide an update for the curious. a whole 2 years later I have finally acquired a board for an acceptable price (€54 + shipping from Japan). It came loaded with RAM and a co-processor too so I think I lucked out. It came with a battery (yikes) but more on that later.... The...

Well I cleaned it up as best as I could without getting into de-soldering components in order to asses the damage and what to do next... It actually cleaned up better than I thought it would... The majority of the damage is on this LS245 chip which is apparently a TI Octal Bus Transceiver...

I'm fairly new to collecting retro computing, mostly concentrating on retro PC gear but I do grab anything Macintosh if it comes along which is an extremely rare occurrence in my country. A seller put up a non-working Macintosh Colour Classic on a local auction site with a starting price of...