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Ok that makes sense. I just didn't know different plants were free to use different types of solder mask coating. I guess it wouldn't matter in terms of functionality. Thanks.

Does anybody know why Apple used different solder mask coating variations for the same boards? I've seen that on multiple boards. For example, I have 2 identical LC II boards, one is glossy "bright green", the other is matte "muted yellowish green". I saw the same with other boards such as PM...

Falcon 4 and FA/18 series were the best imho. But I’m biased since I’m a flight-simmer to this day. Falcon 4 was way ahead of its time.

Yeah, if I remember correctly it’s like a $15 service, but imho it’s totally worth it given the fragility of some of these items.

Weren’t those the Bose Roommate speakers? Those are the only ones I know of.

I’ve never actually bought on FromJapan but I thought they were basically the same thing. I paid similar prices on Buyee ($140-240) for large items to be shipped to the US. They seem reasonable and actually not that much higher than some eBay sellers charge to ship across state lines...

Personally I have had pretty good success with adjusting the little magnets on two of my compacts. They both had the same problem - top and bottom not being parallel, forming an ugly sideways trapezoid. I did have one that I couldn’t fix no matter what I did so I just bought another yoke. All...

With these bezels, a dab of hot glue on the inside (where the broken hooks would be) does the trick really well. The eject button on the cd bezels also has a tendency to break off. Those are easily reattached with some acetone-based glue (I use Tamiya Ultra Thin). It actually welds the pieces...

I definitely wouldn’t go down in voltage spec on that cap. That could lead to problems. Looks to me like the board had the voltage mod done but then it was reversed by bridging the pins (in your last picture). I have no idea what the jumper is for between pins 18 and 20. That doesn’t seem...

Ahh that's interesting. My results were very similar to your screenshots. So it stands to reason that Macbench will produce similarly low scores in my case as well. I might try it anyway out of curiosity (although swapping cards and extensions is a bit of a pain hehe). So I heard (somewhere)...

I don’t have the IIci but I remember my results being much better (actually higher than the IIfx) when I had the Powercache in the OG Mac II. But I didn’t run Macbench, only Speedometer and Norton. When I have time, I might pull the Turbo out and put the Powercache back in and do some tests...

A recap and a thorough clean would be my first step. Some of those caps and the surrounding areas look pretty bad. While recapping, I would look for any trace damage.

So do you still intend to do the Takky mod as originally planned?

Looks like you lost your vertical deflection. This could be an easy fix, or might require some troubleshooting of the analog board. The first thing I would check is the solder joints on the back of neck board, especially the ones that connect to the CRT pins. I would also check the neck...

This is just a theory, but it’s probably the popularity of the original SE that made the SE/30 so desirable. The Macintosh II family was most likely out of reach for most people price-wise, but a LOT of people had the SE, and those machines did start feeling a bit limited eventually. Then the...

Yeah, it is totally possible that they were Classic IIs. This was a long time ago and I don’t remember the exact years this all happened (could have been that 1 year difference). Nor did I pay attention to the exact model. I do remember the exact look of the computers, and obviously the...

I am not sure, schools in the US were weird back then. I believe Apple was providing massive discounts to US schools. Perhaps just the floppy drive upgrade was worth it. Remember, all the students were saving their work on floppies and carrying them around, so being able to use 1.4MB floppies...

Sounds like you entered the scene a bit later. At the time the SE/30 was released, black and white graphics on a 9 inch monitor were the norm. Sure, you could play color games on the Amiga etc, but if you wanted the most modern OS, word processors, integrated peripherals, printing, etc, the...

I find it odd that someone on a vintage computer board would call an ancient computer a “realistically, a silly meme machine” and declare a much later model superior based on its “practicality”??

SE/30 is a much more iconic machine (possibly the most iconic of the generation) It’s the machine most Mac enthusiasts either had or wish they had during late 80s/early 90s. IIsi is none of those things.