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Hi there :) Years ago, I finally got hold of a M5126 backlit Portable. It was untouched, never before been worked on. I was not surprised that it didn't boot and only produced a garbled screen, similar to a Simasimac. I removed the caps, cleaned the board thoroughly, soldered new caps...

Hey folks, I just received a Classic II with the common "thick vertical bar" problem. So far, so good, same procedure as every year. Wash the logic board thoroughly... Whoops? No Chime, still vertical bars? Okay, let's replace the caps with tantalum ones. What? Still no chime? Grrr! Then I...

Hi there, over the years, I've seen several cases of 68k Macs with leaking PRAM batteries. Many of them didn't really leak slowly - instead they seemed to have exploded in an impressive way. Spray of corrosive materials seemed to have landed everywhere inside the machine. Then, I began to...

Hi :) I am searching for the low level formatting kit for the Apple ProFile harddisk. This was a kit which consisted of an EPROM and a 5,25" disk containing testing/certifying software for the Apple /// which initiated the formatting process. I got all the necessary hardware (Apple ///...

Hi there, I got an SE/30 which behaves weird. On Power up I get the normal gong, black screen, no signs of drive activity on the internal HD, on an inserted boot floppy or an (known good) external floppy. The CRT doesn't heat and the high voltage to the CRT is missing. Okay, swap the PSU or...