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• Sep 27, 2023

After a very long hiatus I am pleased to report that the Pulsar lives again.

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• Sep 19, 2023

Just bought a PowerBook G4 Titanium while on holiday, demonstrating my absolute lack of self control when it comes to cheap, lonely old Macs. Luckily it has the exact opposite broken and roughed-up bits of my other TiBook so I should be able to meld them into one quite nice one and one utterly awful one.

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• Sep 5, 2023

Sometimes a diode will simply decide that it is time for current to flow in neither direction any more.




This is possibly one of the most bizarre component failures I have ever seen. The rectifier in this PSU failed and had created a dead short. It turns out that two of the diodes had split in half while the other two had simply turned into 0 Ohm resistors.

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• Aug 25, 2023

I finally gave this hunk of junk some love and, hey presto. It's alive! All it took was a whole new logic board...

110MHz, 40MB RAM, and what I believe is the original 2GB hard drive, which is quite a "vocal" disk.

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• Jul 3, 2023

The SE/30 Reloaded is alive! After months of chasing my own tail, so sure that there couldn't be a single bad solder joint or faulty component left to test, I finally had the brainwave of removing the CPU and putting it back in again. Sure enough...

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• Apr 10, 2023

Wire wheels and persistence go a long way!



(SE/30 logic board bracket thing)

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• Apr 8, 2023

The reloaded SE/30 near completion

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• Jan 25, 2023

Unfortunately Word 2001 could not help me with this.

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• Nov 25, 2022

Low mood/energy week. Here's a photo I took while fiddling with a faulty old Pentax ME Super.

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• Sep 26, 2022

What a difference twelve hours in vinegar makes. Better, still not great...

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• Aug 16, 2022

Two up and running. Now only the cursed SE/30 remains dormant.

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• Jun 14, 2022

I finally bought a G4 Cube so I am one happy fellah. Just a Titanium PB to go and the G4 collection is complete.

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• Dec 8, 2021

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• Nov 4, 2021

Oh, fun!
Oh, four O!
I moved a Quadra and stubbed my toe.

Oh, yes
Mac OS!
Lovely (but some versions are quite slow).

Oh, damn
I've used all my RAM.
In spite of its foibles I love 040.

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• Oct 23, 2021

What do I call my desire to inflict pain upon myself by way of old Macs? Macsochism?