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That's a wonderful acquisition, congrats! :)   It's a pity for the poor other Macs... I hope they manage to find a home, someway!

Sounds like a nice project! Could be something like an LC 520 but with a flat screen, which sounds great!

I totally missed that thread! Thanks gorgonops for pointing that out! Perhaps some mod or admin could merge all the relevant information into one single topic to avoid redundancy? 

I was surfing the web earlier this morning when I happened to find this.  Now there's some *serious* hacking involved! A few things he's done: 1) He's got an ARM-based computer running off the original power supply, if I'm not mistaken 2) He created his own PCB and video driver to drive the...

That's awesome!! Congrats!! :)

Great conquest! I've always had a crush for the G4 Cube :)

Might be bad caps in the power supply.

That's superb!! Great job! ;)

I've personally built a few for testing purposes and even run some of them for quite a long time with absolutely no problem (that is, you have to configure them properly). Never had a hardware failure. I'm more inclined to think that if such a hardware failure happens, it's not because of the...

Yep, we're done with the testing for the time being! I know portables are not very happy to run from an external power source, especially when powered by higher wattage supplies (like the PB100 one) - if everything's ok nothing bad happens, but if some component has deteriorated, it can cause...

Yep, the flex cable carries both the backlight power and the video data: the two different types of signals are then split in two different cables, the one coming out of the blue plug goes to the motherboard and it's the same cable non-backlit portables use (with the difference, if I've...

Just for reference, this is the cable I'm talking of. I've thought about finding another flex cable with the same number of connections, but this cable here splits in two parts...  Ideally, if someone had a spare, that'd be awesome; but I have a feeling finding a compatible part is going to be...

Hi there! The title says it all - I've recently acquired a Macintosh Portable "demo unit" (much alike the one who was being sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago) that was selling for a pretty low price and I'd be interested in getting it back to work. The unit has multiple problems, including a...

Holy moly, that's a disaster... I'm not very optimistic about the traces that were supposed to live there.

So yesterday I had a couple of hours of free time and I decided I would give this poor boy some attention.  As of now I've replaced both the internal hard drive and the floppy drive with later models and they're working perfectly fine! The internal hard drive has been replaced with the 4.5GB...

You need a new CRT monitor, you can't just "reseal" a broken one. I think someone here on the forums might have a spare for you, but you have to be very careful during the replacement to avoid smashing another one!

Wow, that's cool! :) I still have this idea of getting A/UX running somewhere, one day. I've got a IIsi that would be ideal for the purpose, providing that I find some expansion card to support the FPU and I bump the memory to 64MB.

Good news! I've managed to have it booting! ;) So it actually turns out my external hard drive was on its death bed, I used it for a few minutes with my Power Macintosh 8500 and it just died with horrible noises. It's understandable though, it was a 20 MB CMS drive from the end of the 80s...

Hi all, thanks for the suggestion! I should be able to get my hands on a floppy emu by the end of the week and perform some extra tests with a fresh copy of System 6.0.8 Utilities Disk. The disk drive seems to spin up correctly most of the times since I properly reseated its molex power...

That's not as bad as it may seem - if I recall correctly, the big yellow capacitor that blew up is a suppression filter. It's meant to protect the computer from power spikes; when it gets old it can blow up with a lot of black smoke as it happened to you, but it's nothing too serious. The Mac...