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You'll be able to get by fine without rewrapping 'em in heatshrink. I've never done it myself and never had issues, taking note from pretty much every PSU manufacturer out there who also didn't wrap 'em in heatshrink.

Old school setup for hooking ti a projector generally. To the best of my knowledge there aren't any monitors that'll sync - more or less just late 80s/early 90s projectors (the suitcase sized ones).

Something worth noting is some later ones require a 20A cord and as such have 3 horizontal pins rather than 3 vertical pins. It's still a standard connector but somewhat less common for a home user.

Don't trust it. Capacitors are cheap and can fail short and/or go pop when they fail, spewing corrosive goo all over the board. In general capacitors tend to work a little better once warmed up a bit which is probably why it's seemingly working now. Let it sit a few days and it'll be back to before.

While not quit replacing the Rayovac bricks, these're "in the spirit" so to say. I've been playing with replacing the 1/2AA batteries with CR2032s in systems as a means of cutting costs. I can get a holder for ~$0.75 and a battery for $~0.40 in bulk, a lot cheaper than a $3-$5 battery. Even if...

PCP24xk is the PrecisionColor Pro 24xk with QuickColor. I didn't get a full run of it on the IIfx though, for some reason it'd get part way through and Type 1 error on me. Doesn't do it with any of the other video cards. It's the one card that showed the greatest improvement in PowerPC vs 68k...

So I spent today benchmarking a bunch of video cards in my IIfx and a PowerComputing Power 100. Unfortunately that Radius card would be much better suited to a PowerPC mac than a 68k mac, but it's a fair bit worse than HPV in the 8100. Under Macbench 4, my PrecisionColor Pro 24xk gets a score of...

Did you clean the board, and I mean really clean the board after recapping? Cap goo gets under chips and causes weird issues until really cleaned.

For the SCSI 2 SD config did you set the vendor and model to the one in the SCSI2SD in a 68k Mac thread, including the spaces before/after? That’s required for the stock drive setup to recognize the scsi2sd.  A really easy way to get the drive setup off the iMac is to use sheep shaver with...

Generally as long as it's just green fuzz, you'll be able to clean it off and it'll just work(tm). There are some exceptions, like in a Mac IIcx the cap leakage likes to ruin the power-on circuitry and you'll never be able to turn the computer off again but that's a minor issue. More or less all...

Have you tried a different mouse in case the one you’re testing with decided to die?

As long as there's no batteries that've gone bang, should be plenty doable. Caps will need replace on the logic board for sure and probably the power supply. Thankfully it's not too hard, we're talking ~3 hours work for a first time repairer, providing you're familiar with a soldering iron.

Navy? Close enough! This one's a Novy card and that passthrough is almost certainly to allow you to hook a video card and/or other expansion into the back. To the best of my knowledge, the only card ever released that made use of it was the E-Machines Big Picture card but it's possible there's...

Good chance it’s a Euro DIN adapter rather than PDS. They use the same connector.

Newertech Clockometer would do it too.

The easiest way is with a bigger office printer that does PostScript. Most mid range Laserjets do (does it have 2 paper tray support? Probably does PS). Ive printed to my P4015x and my P3005 from OS8 with no bridge before, need to try older OSes some day.

I bet there's an SE/30 board in there. The video corruption + 8 megs ram + SE/30 identification + 500 meg hard drive would have me placing my money on it. The only other way to get an SE to 8 megs is with an '030 accelerator and Compact Virtual but that's not a very common thing to find. 

at $40 for the pair, even maxell bomb'd, I'd say you did alright. Best case, you can fix it. Worst case, you can swap the ROMs and SWIM into an 800k board and upgrade it to a Superdrive (providing those chips aren't too damaged). The keyboard alone for $40 wouldn't have been a terrible find, you...

That’s not for video but for AUi. That’d allow you to use thick net or thin net or fibre or whatever other medium you might be using in your network.