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Finished building a small home studio for messing with making beats. Just a little hobby. Mac Mini M4 16gb RAM 512GB SSD, with a 2TB SSD in a Satechi M4 hub. Software is Reason 13+ with Behringer RD-8 and RD-9 drum machines, TD-3 baseline synth, Focusrite interface, and a Nektar Panorama T4...

This is sweet. Many thanks.

This is really neat. I'll check it out when I've got one of my old Macs hooked up again!

Oof. That's painful to see! Definitely reloaded or a board from max is the way to go.

I forgot to mention that max1zzz (who is a serious Mac mad scientist!) very kindly diagnosed the open traces on my LCIII+ and transferred everything from my board to one of his new production boards. That's how I found out it was rotted traces. I'm unaware of any reversed capacitors on these...

For what it’s worth, my LCIII+ died a few years after being fully recapped. The traces on the RAM address bus had corroded internally, due to electrolytic cap juice pooling there before it was fixed.

Can’t add much beyond what’s been said already, other than the Q605/LC/Performa 475 is a great if not the best budget 68k machine! A good ultrasonic cleaning, recap the logic board, max the RAM and VRAM, and add a ZuluSCSI, and you’re set! My favorite pizza box Mac!

Very cool piece of software! I'll be installing it on my Macs that use ZuluSCSI.

Very cool. I'll stop in next time I have one of my machines setup. They're all stored in the closet at the moment.

For what its worth, the cap kits I've gotten from console5 were great for recapping my LC machines.

All three of the Rack Macs in this thread are awesome! Love how first one kept the beige color scheme and the second recreated the Q605 front bezel. The third is just cool cuz its ex-NASA, and has a key...nice ;)

Hey and welcome! For a first 90s Mac, I'd say either a Quadra 605/LC/Performa 475, if you were wanting to run primarily 68k apps. Otherwise, I agree with what was said above: a Power Macintosh G3. I have a B&W G3 400MHz rev 2, and its a screamer. A 7500 would also be an ok choice, but those have...

My Performa 475 is also in very good condition after all these years. Still works perfectly on all original caps, with no signs of leakage as of yet. I do have new tantalum caps for it though, along with caps for my other LC machines that need them. I plan on tackling it once I grab a hot air...

I threw a 7200rpm SCSI drive in my B&W G3 when I got it out of storage and working again. Mac OS 8.6 boots super quick. I know it’s not 9 or 9.2.2 but it’s super snappy to use.

Any easy fix is a good thing!