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I have been chipping away at assessing and fixing up a bunch of computers and I finally made my way to a stack of Centris and Quadra 610s. I've been working through them, but one of the boards looked different and had different markings and I was wondering if they had any special meaning. The...

I just picked up an Apple III locally and it came with a ProFile 5MB Drive (unfortunately no Profile card in the machine), two Apple /// Monitors, and the external floppy drive. I need to replace the RIFA caps as the big ones are cracked significantly. However, I decided to start it up in...

Looking for some guidance as someone who was a Mac user as a kid, but not Apple II. I picked up an Apple II a few years back, and didn’t realize until after I bought it that it was actually a clone. When I first got it, I had issues with garbage on the video output and traced it down to what I...

Trying to recap my iMac G4 20” and I’ve run across a connector I cannot seem to remove. On the 17” iMacs there is a similar connector with a plastic cap over it that seems to be intended to lock the connection in place. This one looks like it might be similar, but I’ve tried prying and sliding...

I picked up a Mac II recently and was looking to do a recap. However, the board markings show a number different than what I can find reference to online. It seems to be very similar to pictures I've found of the 820-0163-02 board in terms of capacitor location. One difference I did...

I picked up a non-working Mac SE from a local woman. I believe the power supply is likely bad but haven't gotten around to testing the voltages yet. However, when I took it apart to assess the state of the analog and main boards (worried about the PRAM battery leakage), I realized this...