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I finally managed to find a reasonably priced ImageWriter II on Ebay last week. Description said unit did turn on but no further testing was done. Seemed safe enough so ended up winning the auction for about 15 Euro. It finally arrived yesterday and I proceeded to, as I always do with old...

I got this Classic of a friend's friend that's in really poor condition technically and cosmetically. Sure enough it showed the usual garbled screen. I recapped the logic board which is now working OK (tested in another Classic). But still the garbled screen. So a voltage check showed that they...

I have been picking up bits and pieces, mainly off Ebay, over the last while and the odd machine locally but usually just units without any extras. So last week I finally managed to come across a nice conquest in the form of a boxed Mac SE (800k drive) with a good bit of stuff, and all at a...

I got this Classic off a friend last week and have been spending the last few days trying to get it going. Definitely the worst condition Mac that I ever got, both technically and cosmetically. Both logic and analogue board problems, but that's for another thread :) Well when I took off the...

I finally finished recapping a IIcx which hadn't been used in years (PSU blew up as well on first start-up :O ) and it seems successful. The problem I now have though is the graphics card. It's a Radius GS/C-M that apparently, after doing some reading, only outputs 1152x882 and is sync'ing on...

Or what to do when you really, really want a Compact... When I got into vintage Macs I quickly realised that I really wanted a Compact Mac. For me the Plus is the ultimate in retro: looks nearly like a 128 but has SCSI and can have enough RAM to run pretty much anything vintage. So I went...

Hi, I thought I'd post this here as it isn't really machine specific (if there's a better place for it, mods, fell free to move it). Well I've had three line filter caps (EMI suppressors) fail in spectacular fashion (including that lovely lingering smell) in the last few weeks. These were all...

Hi there, Among the pile of stuff that I managed to get a few weeks ago is an external SCSI harddrive case, as shown below: I'd like to find out who made it etc as there is no labelling on it at all. But more importantly I need to know whether the power supply is a universal voltage one...

Hi there, I'm new to the forum and Macs in general. I always wanted one around the late 80's but could never afford one, so when I was bitten by the retro bug last xmas I started looking for one. That's when I realised that buying old Macs is like getting the bus: you wait for ages and then 3...