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I have an original 400k Write/Paint Guided Tour disk.  I ended up formatting it after copying its contents to me SE/30's hard drive to test a 400k drive I just received.  The disk reads, writes just fine but once I copied the original contents back to the drive it will no longer boot.  Yes, I...

Hi folks, drive in question is the 800k Sony MP-F51W. It emits a very loud whine, I believe from the drive head, if you place your finger on it, you can feel a vibration, similar to an ultrasonic toothbrush. Upon injecting a disk, the drive spins up, quite fast. The drive head remains...

Hi folks, I'm having an issue with one of the 128ks I'm restoring. When attempting to boot a known good 400k system disk in a known good 400k drive, I get a sad Mac 0F0004 error. Swapping the logic board for another 128k board relives the symptom, while the disk, drive, and analog board remain...

Hi folks. I'm having some issues getting a 400k drive to read/write/erase. Initailly the drive mechanisim was so gunked up that I couldn't insert a disk into the drive. I removed the eject mechanisim and am soaking it in WD/40. While the drive was apart, I connected it to a Mac and mounted...

Hi everybody, You might know me as the guy who shoehorned an Intel Mini ATX Mobo into a color classic (as seen here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11543&p=113842#p113842 ) I've recently taken a position as a vintage electronics restoration specialist at a large electronics recycler, and have more...

I thought I might show my latest mod, a core2duo color classic. Tearing down. Soldering 15 pin VGA socket into wiring loom, required some interesting research. Mounting new motherboard. Intel D945GCLF2 VGA modification of logic board Drives, fan, and power supply mounted...

My recent score off of ebay, the TAM was badly damaged in shipment, and not well cared for by its previous owner, I am painstakingly trying to restore it. But look at these. Sparticus, as most of you know, was the internal apple code name for the 20th anniversary macintosh. I wonder if...

}:) Woot! Picked it up off of ebay, has numerous small problems, hope to have it working like new shortly. I'll post pictures when it arrives. -Patrick Also scored a socketed sensie'd SE/30 .

It took several weeks to source all the parts, but I think I've done it. The hardest part was locating the 10" color crt capable of displaying 1024x768 that was short enough to fit in the case, I finally found one, so the mod is underway. Specs. Intel Atom core 2 running at 2 ghz. 2gb ram...

The holy grail of 68k macs arrived at my doorstep today. Cost was 40 bucks for the machine, and 30 for shipping. Booted right into os8. Surfs the internet, cool little box. I'm going to use it for screengrabs of my other machines. -Patrick

For a... 512k, Plus, SE, SE FDHD, Classic II, SE/30, ][, IIc, two Mac IIsi, a monitor for the C, the E, and one each for the SIs Also, about 200 books, I would say about 90 percent of what was published for the mac until the powerpc era. The dead mac scrolls, the complete apple technical set...

I picked this up in the trading post from thisoldmacsupport. He had it listed for parts, as it wouldn't boot. The pram battery was dead and the hard drive fried. After several hours (about 8) I ended up with this. I'm phyched, even though it takes hours of work and carefully consumed...

Hi there, I have an opportunity to pick up a sensi'd SE/30 and a pristine SE FDHD tomorrow at a local shop for 50 bucks altoghether. The shop says that the SE/30 needs the ROM reseated. I was under the impression that sensimac was cause by more sinister causes, like leaky caps. My questions...