Recent content by jshardin

Hi there, did you ever get this to work?

Sorry, I read this and laughed out loud as you must have been reading my mind.. I've just finished restoring 4 classics and I swear I will never touch another one of those analog boards again.

The issue isn't going to be finding replacement parts... It's going to be any vias that have been destroyed connecting all of the layers. I can already see a number of vias that look to be in pretty poor shape. No repair shop worth their salt would say this would be financially feasible; there...

As the recipient of said recreated board, I can heartily add my thanks @Bolle for your efforts! Will took on this project for me as the donor board came from my late Uncle and was his personal favorite computer back in the day. Sadly it had been severely battery bombed by the time I received it...

I too was surprised to see linear regulators as well.. Has anyone looked at replacing them with something like a traco equivalent? I just opened mine up and am not familiar with these analog boards at all, so I may just be talking gibberish at this point, but given the heat problems with these...