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More of a "re-conquest" of sorts but I had to share as I'm pretty happy! So some of you might recall when I picked up a huge lot of PowerBooks, including 7 2400s (technically 6 complete units (1 Mighty Cat and 1 boxed Japanese 2400c/180) and 1 fully disassembled one), for a pretty great deal. I...

There are also a few traces that physically look bad (black) but they test fine for continuity. Only one of them is anywhere near the SWIM though, the rest are in the power circuit. Should I just run wires through them anyways?

So I recapped a IIcx recently (all SMTs and all axials) and it works great, with one exception. All floppy drives behave in the same odd manner.  When I place a floppy, the drive simply whirs. Pretty much sounds like a hard drive spinning up (loudly), and the floppy drive doesn't even seem...

Now that I'm actively collecting again, I figured I'd post an active conquests thread. I've been slowly picking up the majority of one of my good friend's collections for free, with the understanding that I'd help him recap the machines that he is keeping in exchange. Here's what I've picked up...

Nice work! Gamba also had a similar bootdisk (with patched HDSC Setup and other useful utilities with a System 7.5 system folder). It also has the CD Sunrise extension so you can use an external CD drive with it...

While there is a chance that it’s an analog issue, I still think you should recap your logic board first before doing anything else. My CC had a few weird symptoms before I recapped it.

Yes. Just follow the pictures in Dog Cow's article and you'll be fine.  :smiley: The Classic board is 8.75 in by 5.25 in.

You won't need to do any jiggling at all if you follow the method Dog Cow posted. Just push down on one of the case underside screws with your driver and pull the back case up in the opposite direction. The other methods that were posted aren't incorrect by any means but Dog Cow's method is the...

Reviving this thread to say that I picked up a Plus with this set of upgrades recently as well (MegaMath + MegaScreen). Mine was disassembled at some point (I have the MegaScreen and board with the MegaMath installed) but I'm putting it back together now. EDIT: Mine boots up with Sad Mac code...

Hi all, I got these a bit back and was wondering if anybody knew what these cards do. They do not have any external ports, and I can't find much online either. Thank you for any advice as usual!  https://imgur.com/a/vso2PoV -J

I just picked up a complete working NextStation Mono Turbo (slab, monitor, KB, mouse) from the same friend who I picked up quite a few Power Macs and non-working Compacts for free. This cost me $400 though (the most I've paid for a single machine), but I was pretty happy considering that I...

Thanks Bolle! Yeah the connector is too tall for me to flex the top frame unfortunately - there are some screwed on standoffs on the Radius 16 as well. Ahh, now I feel silly - thanks JT! I see that the TPD connector is part of the accelerator now. Looking into trying to pry the chassis right...

So I picked up a dual floppy SE with a Radius Accelerator 16 and a Radius TPD card (along with the TPD monitor) several weeks ago. Right now it's not booting so I am attempting to check the card to see if it's fitted ok (the two boards seem to be a tight fit currently) The problem is that I...

Thanks guys! And thank you LaPorte, I read through it earlier! Waiting on a new desoldering gun to come in before I go further.  I still am having trouble getting some of the white capacitor residue off of the board though, some of it scrapes off with a small flathead but i don't want to be too...

So I picked up a non-working SE FDHD for free last Sunday as part of a larger free score. I anticipated that it would have the exploding Maxell syndrome and it indeed did. The actual acid damage doesn't seem to be terrible (it did disintegrate one pin on the scsi chip, I have a replacement on...

No problem! I do still have the Rhapsody disks from Dan, so I think I will try my hand at installing it soon =) It also only has 64 MB of RAM, unfortunately, but I think that's an easy upgrade. Also just realized that this Daystar is actually the Genesis MP 800+ whoops.  The Rhapsody disks...

Some pics of the Daystar - I have the top bezel, it just needs to be superglued back.  Unfortunately the Rhapsody install seems to be corrupt so I had to erase it and reinstall a fresh copy of 8.5. Otherwise, it seems to be running great and the 4x200 MHz card seems to be running nicely. Also...

I just got these guys on Sunday from a local guy/downsizing collector who I've known for years now (I most recently picked up a bunch of his Power Macs a few months ago) The Genesis MP 600 was once one of the servers for Low End Mac in the early days of the site (my friend did some web work for...

Great scores! That 2400c is arguably nicer than my own boxed one.

Met up with a guy who I originally got a bunch of stuff from almost 7 years ago, and he kindly gave this all for free. Haven't powered up anything yet, but apparently the non G3 computers do have G3 upgrades in them. Will definitely report back with what they have :o