Recent content by dJOS

They are the latest in long life caps and when they fail they don't create a mess. They are definitely not cheap tho.

Nice, I owned a Centris 610 back in the 90's with the 13" color Apple trinitron screen, it was an amazing machine.

If you use 7.5.3 with the newer patched disk utility it's really fast and works great with no errors. I had all sorts of issues with other versions of Mac OS and the patched utilities.

It was really fast, the benchmarks all showed better speeds & seek times than any HDD of the day.

G'day chaps, I rescued another LCIII today from old cap death but found there is no sound output if I plug in external speakers. Internal sound works completely Normally. I checked all the new caps in that area and the continuity is all good. Is there anything else to look for that might cause...

Not in Australia there isn't. :(

They are great little machines, I just wish still I had an Apple Trinitron 13" CRT like I had in the 90's with my Centris 610'

Yeah wedge cases are my favourite, I never had a big box Amiga so I only have the 3 wedge Amiga's (and a second a500).

Cheers, I bought heat sinks that came with adhesive thermal pads as they are prefect for retro fit installs. I do the same on my Commodore and Amiga computers.

Thanks, I'm away on holidays atm and will try it when I return home.

Forgive my ignorance, but what it's CUDA ?

Finally got around to re-capping my LCIII This cap was a PITA to fix, I ended up attaching the cap to the via on one side and used a wire, into the other larger via on the other side, to replace the missing pad.  and she's alive! and I added some heat-sinks to promote longevity - the...

Yeah I'm guessing that was a typo.

They are socketed so very easy to replace and the pin out it identical for the LC and RC socketed variants. Cheers, next to my Mac's is a c64 and 1541 floppy drive above it.

Cheers, I have the instructions already.