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Mike Richardson recently posted in this forum about a problem with a Centris 610. Well, now I'm going to add to that '610 trend, as my Centris 610 has just now given me the chimes of death. :( I booted it up, and it started up just fine. My desktop appeared, everything's great. So I opened...

That's what I do with my SE whose fan doesn't work too well (yup, it's the rat-cage fan). I just focus the air from an external fan onto the side where the analog board is, and it works wonders for keeping it cool. -Apostrophe

Awesome! Thanks Tomlee! -Apostrophe

Hi, The time is almost here to get my Macintosh 512k working again. Pretty soon I'll be able to afford a replacement analog board for it. But I have several questions, and despite having searched online and here at the forums, I haven't found answers yet (I did read that classicmac2 PDF file...

I remember opening my Centris 610, back when I was testing different hard drives out on it. One thing I would always notice is like you said, it's really hard to tell which components are which. This Centris 610 has been in my family my whole life (in fact, it's just as old as me), and the...

To rocketath--I think I detect distinct sarcasm and/or rudeness from your reply. Just remember that none of us have to help you. We do it on our own time, so it would be a good idea to show just a tiny bit more appreciation...oh most sarcastic one. -Apostrophe

Hi, Try this page. It's a great resource that provides instructions on getting to any component in a slot-loading iMac. http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guide Just keep scrolling down or do a search until you find the part in the document that covers hard disks. (It's...

Awesome! Thanks everyone, that clears things up! :) -Apostrophe

Hi, Excuse me for my lack of knowledge on Integrated Circuit terms, but what exactly is a 'die'? I keep coming across that term, and I have no idea what it means. -Apostrophe

Great, thanks!

Hi, just a very basic question here; I've done some research, but can't find the answer to this, so I figured that someone here would know... The Motorola 68000 microprocessor chip found on the logic boards of early compact Macs is about 1"X4" in size. If I were to take the plastic black...

Sometimes I'll just look around at eBay auctions for fun, just to see how much money they go for. In many auctions I see compacts that look like their plastic case has been re-melted into a larger area around the monitor, like with this Classic...

Switches can short out? Really? What is it inside them that shorts out? They don't have any capacitors or anything, do they? Ahhh, I hope what you said about 'what it would do to the rest of the machine' doesn't actually happen...I'll switch out the analog board with a known-working one (to...

Danamania--wow. I never knew that could happen... Stevep--no, I think it was just because they didn't push it in all the way. Back when the 512k powered up ( :( ) I would push a known working 400k software disk into the drive all the way, where it stayed. But not a peep from the floppy...

The capacitors on both the logic board and the analog board all look fine, but of course, it isn't easy giving the underside of capacitors on the analog board a good look without removing the analog board (which I only want to do if I'm replacing it with another--which is my plan.) In about a...

My 512k popped when I tried turning it on--see my thread in Conquests, esp. my latest post in that thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9678 So I opened the case to see what went pop. Everything still looks pristine. I know I can rule out the logic board, seeing as when I looked it over, it looks...

As you may have noticed, I changed the name of this thread again, this time to "Macintosh 512k!!! EDIT: " I opened the case this morning to check everything over. I gave the analog board a quick peek, I removed the logic board and examined it, I removed the floppy drive completely and...

I just now turned it on. It chimed, and started right up to the :?: prompt. But no matter what disk I inserted, the prompt remained. I see red LEDs on down inside the floppy drive, so it must be plugged in since power's getting to it, but it won't read any disks. It won't read the disk I...

Oh, okay. So then--what kind of battery is it? I mean, it's supposed to look like a AA, right? I'm only asking to make sure someone didn't just stick the wrong battery in there...

The Macintosh 512k just arrived!!! It's in awesome condition. Sadly, although they included a keyboard and mouse, they seem to have omitted the keyboard cable. I'll dig around for one of those on eBay. I have a few pictures, a few comments, and as always, a few questions. Here's the Mac...