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A little something that may be of use to the 68kMLA community. Since I heard that LeopardAssist was still being actively used over on the MacRumors forums, I decided to revisit the source code and see if there was anything that could be done with it. At some point it seems I'd deleted and lost...

Alright... one more and I promise to stop flooding the Conquests forum. This is a rather nice one though. I'm no stranger to Titanium PowerBooks. I'm also no stranger to what happens when TiBooks fail either. My 867MHz TiBook never truly recovered from the neglect of its previous owner, or...

Several years ago, I acquired a 1979 Apple II Europlus. It has mostly been a collectors item, stored carefully on a shelf and powered on from time to time to test its circuits. It had been shelved for upwards of 12 months now and was well overdue for a startup. It started up perfectly fine, and...

I stopped visiting here around the same time I resigned as an Apple technician. I had and still have a lot to think about, but recently I found myself wanting to share some of the developments with the others here. Apple collecting is a rather low priority for me these days, but while I don't...

It's been such a long time, but I wanted to give this thread some closure. Remember this thread? Well, the supplier came forward with another several boxes of spares, and a lot of crushed, broken and dropped machines. One MacBook Pro with some serious structural damage was a perfect match, with...

It's called Tarzan's Grip ShockProof (or ImpactProof) super glue. It's a rubber modified adhesive, so it's a lot more resistant to bending and impact stress. I've used it to bond together broken magnesium frames and Unibody MacBook Pro displays, and it works surprisingly well considering the...

With the Colour Classic came a Macintosh 512Ke. Inside, this 512Ke differs from the other one I have. The inside of this machine is silver metallic, while the other machine is flat grey and black. The CRT is a Samsung, not a Clinton tube. The Analog Board makes use of red capacitors as opposed...

...still as unusual as ever with my thread titles. This one holds some relevance though. Some time in 2004 is when I sold my PC and bought my first Mac. This year marks 10 years since then, and oh what an interesting ride it's been. It was also the year I first encountered what would become...

I set to work on its Display Module today, if anything to discover how much of a hit this machine took. Despite the shattered glass, it only took a few minutes with a heat gun before I could lift the entire glass panel out as a single piece. Underneath the glass told quite a terrifying tale. The...

Last night I collected a haul of Apple spare parts and various other bits and pieces. Of the spare parts I've so far managed to build: (1x) 2.5GHz MacBook Pro (Early 2008), 15-inch Glossy LCD, 4GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 8600M GT 512MB with a 320GB HDD. (2x) 2.4GHz MacBook Unibody (Mid 2010)...

I know Alps Electronics never managed to get their drive into production, but I suppose that wouldn't have stopped them from building a couple of prototypes. Sony of course ended up getting the contract. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Hide_Under_This_Desk.txt...

I've been taking a few deliveries and freebie pickups over the past week. Last week I took delivery of the MacBook Pro and PowerBook collection. I've been busy over the last few days, so this is the second half of this weeks liberations. Both myself and LCGuy here on the forums decided to jump...

400MHz PowerPC G3. 512MB RAM. 40GB Hard Drive. ATI Rage Mobility 128. AirPort Wireless Networking. Pioneer Slot Load DVD-RW 8x SuperDrive. Dual Boot between Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X Tiger. This is the PowerBook G3 Pismo in a nutshell. It's an absolutely beautiful machine. My favourite feature by...

Well, the PowerBook CPU arrived. The system now powers on, chimes and begins loading the Mac OS. I can hear drive activity and the volume adjustment tones as I hit the volume keys. However I have no video. Not just backlight, but absolutely no video. It worked before I placed it into storage...

The board supports are in one of the trays I used. They're not part of the tray itself, just some standoffs I affixed to the pan. This worked quite well. I have seen a Power Macintosh G5 board curve under extreme heat, which I consider bad enough. I don't intend to let it happen to one of these...

Apparently between 68 meters and 89 meters above sea level in my particular location, but I don't have a solid source for that.

Mountain Lion supports the MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007) or later. These machines are on the very trailing edge of Mountain Lion's supported specifications. There's a little piece of information I want to share with everyone. When repairing these MacBook Pros, I found myself treating the process...

A small update: - I repaired both MacBook Pro Logic Boards tonight. The first board only required a reflow. The second board required a reflow and some manual touch-up around the memory slot connectors. Both now start up successfully into OS X Mountain Lion and only require replacement top...

Nice freebie haul today, should keep me busy for a while. There's nothing specific known about these machines yet, so I'll cut right to the chase. Today I picked up 7 Apple notebooks, all of them with various issues. - 3x PowerBook G4 15-inch - 2x PowerBook G4 17-inch - 2x MacBook Pro...

Steve Jobs once described fitting a G3 processor as standard to as to "put a killer engine in this car", alluding to the newly introduced iMac's advantage over its Celeron powered competitors. It proved to be a sound move and sure enough, a killer engine it certainly turned out to be. So I have...