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I'm no electrical engineer, but I did some poking with a friends voltmeter a while back, and if I remember right, I found the 5V before the filter but not after, and not in the appropriate pin on the ADB connector. I found the Apple Guide to Macintosh Family Hardware at archive.org...

@mcdermd maybe I should send you the fan assembly and paper baffle. :p I should say, I mean hack-ish in the best way - given how they limited the ability to upgrade these machines from the get-go, it's amazing to see what kind of incredibly expensive upgrades were able to be produced. In the...

Is there anything that can be done with an SE with dead ADB ports? This machine was a street find, and I stupidly hot swapped the mouse in the process of trying to boot it when it was acting flaky. Turned out cleaning the 3 prong power connector did the trick and now it powers up every time. I...

Not sure how slick the cooling system was/is, it's a bit hackish as it seems that many addons were for the Macs prior to the SE. :) Here's some more pics: sadly, I wish it were a happy ending with the Radius card in place, but it must have been pulled. You can see the rubber bumpers on the...

I bought a Mac Plus from a guy a few months back for $50 - which might seem like a lot, except it came with a Lacie ZFP 50MB HDD, one of the original beige carry bags, and a bunch of original 800K software floppies, like a full 7.1 install set and Microsoft Excel disks. But enough of that. I...

I've been putting together a small collection of Classic Macs and peripherals, and one of the small irritants that I always run into is missing rubber feet. For example, the grey feet on the Compact Macs and the M0110/M0110A keyboards, or the rectangular rubber feet on the floppy drives, or the...