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Oh my god - I have a dead HD20 that I can finally resurrect. The Rodime in it is dead, but the rest of the unit works fine. Thanks so much for making this available!

I recently met up with a local gentleman and acquired a small trove of Macs in need of work. I had originally responded to his ad looking to pick up the LaserWriter he was offering and wound up striking up a conversation about what all he had - very nice guy, I have to say! I figured that, what...

Quick update after recapping - it's looking great (excuse the image offset, I didn't realize how far off to the right the desktop was on the screen) and currently breaking in at the moment:

Grabbed a screenshot and snapped a photo for reference after trying to reset the geometry a bit. The linearity is off a bit at the bottom, but it's otherwise okay-ish. The screenshot's very much wider than it is tall, so I think we're back in business! :)

The heck - C+S+3 worked all the way back then? I'll grab a screenshot in a moment and let you know.

Ah, yeah, that's probably my fault. I was trying to determine if it was having a linearity issue last night and dialed the geometry waaaaaay down. It should adjust back up to scale just fine (and a recap won't hurt either).

Also, thank you so much for pointing this resource out! I had no idea this existed and it's incredibly useful!

Eyyyy - it lives! Desoldered sense line seven from my old handmade portrait display cable and voila! The geometry is... off, but the image is there. The previous owner recapped the PSU, so the two other boards will need the same. There is one minor issue, however, that someone here may be able...

Stupid sense codes, lol. I have an old rat's nest of a cable for my portrait that I can repurpose with the right sense lines wired up; I'll report back with an update shortly!

Hmm... my Q800 did bupkis; I may try with the Q950. Outside of that, though, would a Radius TPD card work, or is Apple the only way to go? Also, laaaaaame on the 630 (which also explains why my 650 didn't do anything, lol). Edit: Well, the 950 also does nothing. There's a flicker on the raster...

I've come into possession of an Apple TPD that works (but needs some attention), but I can't get a signal out of any of the Macs I've hooked up to it. Does this thing require a TPD NuBus card to drive regardless of the Mac? My Apple portrait display hooks right up to a IIsi with no issues, for...

Yes to all, unfortunately. Other than the fuse on top of the CPU card, are there any others?

Title really says it all - picked up a cheap PB170 that powers up, but gives the boot chime followed by the ol' two sets of error chimes. That's all fine and dandy, except there's also garbage on screen (seen below). I've done some research and checked the PSU (it outputs the correct voltage...

Awesome - congratulations on getting that running! As far as performance issues are concerned, there is a possible cause that I can think of. The game was designed to be run using a physical CD and its data was compressed and arranged* to get the most throughput out of the 1x and 2x drives that...

A while back, I acquired a Macintosh Portrait Display that ended up only needing a re-capping to get back in working order. What I did not have, however, was a way to connect it to any of my Macs. After picking up some connectors from Mouser, I set out to make a cable to get my IIsi hooked up to...

Sorry for the delay - just started a new job and it was a stressful first week. Below is the end result, and I think it looks great. I still haven't had time to adjust the pincushion, but I may do that later this afternoon. The cap list and Mouser project are as follows; where suitable on the...

Quick update - it's fixed! No photos/video at the moment, though; the whole thing is completely disassembled and it's not easy to get a good shot of it running. That said, the entire thing (aside from the neck board), has been recapped and this appears to have fixed the issue. I started with...

After finally getting around to putting a cable together to test out my portrait display, I got it hooked up to my IIsi and... well, it sort of worked. And I stress "sort of." It's displaying an image, but the screen has this sort of pulsing effect, where the image will darken in a wave across...

Sweet deal! Can't wait to see how this turns out! :)

Just chiming in with my two cents - I spent way too long trying to get MacTCP to work on my SE/30 (like, a few hours) before finally giving up and installing OpenTransport. Within a few minutes I was able to ping my SE/30. If you can afford (in terms of RAM) to run OT, run OT; it is so, so much...