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I'm one of those people with more time than money. So getting a cheap unit, even a POTENTIALLY smelly one is great for me.  I have no issues spending an evening delicately washing every part and making it all nice and pretty.  I had an IBM thinkpad 730 for a while (large book sized 486...

I would wager, the ebay seller will want to get rid of everything in one shot, otherwise he would just sell it all individually himself and potentially make more money, at the cost of his time. That would mean, the interested people would need to come together, pay one person X dollars to...

I'd have to donate some blood or something, but I'd like to call dibs on that eduquest and its accessories.  If that is helpful to anyone willing to take on this task.

The major problem is the auction is a huge lot.  VERY few people are going to want all of that stuff.  Not to even mention it's overpriced.  I also didn't see anything particularly valuable.  I'd like to get that IBM eduquest, they are not common, but also not very popular.  So if someone bought...

I want that one lonely IBM in the corner (not the JR).  but $5000, thats a big chunk of change.  

Ok, progress has been made. But it appears the board is sick.  With proper voltages it causes a sad mac.  only one line; 0F002.  If I googled it correctly, that is some sort of address exception in software.  Immediately my brain goes to the roms, but i'm certain they are properly socketed...

oh, thats a spicy meatball! i will be trying a new power supply this evening. if it works, im going to try to image the drive on my ibm AT system. I should be able to do a raw read of the entire drive. From what i see on the hyperdrive, it uses a standard western digital controller chip...

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I've been poking this mac plus I recently got.  It booted, but the drive did not spin up. If you care to see:   I popped it open the other day, and had a look around.  I resoldered the analog board connectors, so no more slapping the unit.   I did find the probable cause for the failure...

motherboard is 820-0064-B so regular.  I can handle regular.  So it would be mod-able to the double high res.  I honestly don't have any concrete plans for this guy besides get it fully operational.  I think I have the long stem alps.  My initial plan is to drill a small hole down the remaining...

Well, I put a video on youtube the other day (sorry, I thought I linked it earlier)    it also has the 3 compact macs I got. So looking back at the video, it does indeed show APPLE ][  serial #193815  and the motherboard has a datecode of 8320 if it matters.   Side note: I did catch a bit of...

Does it matter?  Also how do you tell for sure?

I have serial on my machine, but I don't think I have serial card on the IIe.  There is a mystery (to me) card in it.  Initial googling gives me nothing.  I'm making an account over on Applefritter.  Hopefully someone there will know.  I do have good news, the 4 key cap was inside the machine...

Thanks to $40 and some nice guy on craigslist. The first mac plus seems to work fine.  The 2nd has loose solder joints and a hyperdrive.  the SE is lifeless as a rock.  The IIe was the real reason I'm so happy.  I haven't laid my hands on one since I was 5 and in elementary school.  It will...

I think I found it. The brightness knob. Nothing looked bad, but I desoldered it, checked it with a DMM (was fine ~3 to 1M ohm) and reinstalled it.  Its been working just fine now. Next step for me is the keyboard.  seems about 5 of the keys aren't responding.  YAY.

Ok, took a sharpie and marked lots of points on the board to test voltages. Naturally the damn thing decides to work.  So while running all voltages are excellent.  +31.7V @ C14.  (sheet says 30v)  +12 everywhere it should get it, same with 5 and -12.  (U1) , +12 on the crt (pin 8 ).  I didn't...

sadly I've never been able to justify the cost of getting a scope.  I'll measure the voltages I get on J2.  I'm trying to avoid directly soldering the connection together.  There is no light at all when the system is running.  I'll check what I can and get back.

Well I pulled Q3 - BU406.  I'm 99% certain it's ok.  Diode testing on my dmm reveals the "correct" biases.  Also pulled the CR1 & 5, they came out the same way.  opened the gun connection, the individual wires looked good, and with a pair of tweezers I slightly closed the connectors.   The...

I just tossed this on youtube if it helps:  https://youtu.be/xD2a4hbcT4Y

I fired it up again this afternoon.  worked fine.  Go to install an external HDD and I come back to a black screen.  Hour later I try again, it works, and then dies after 5 minutes.  So somewhere is a bad joint.  I'm going to resolder EVERY component on that analog board. There is no way this...