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I think it might require recapping - I just tried it again with a fresh PRAM battery and it's making a repetitive clicking noise - seems like it's coming from the speaker. There is a fishy-capacitor smell coming from the logic board - that's not a great sign as I haven't done any surface mount...

Hi everyone, Haven't been active here in a while - been clearing out a few Macs and just working out what I want to do with my collection. Recently I came into possession of a complete Macintosh LC set for free, but it has some issues: -The Mac LC shows no signs of life at all -There's a...

Enjoying my birthday :D

To be honest I haven't been buying or doing stuff with my Macs for ages. Since moving I have only one Mac set up (a 2007 iMac for music), so I have been totally preoccupied with other stuff. I would love to continue with them though, just at some stage in the future. I hate times like these...

True. I'm in talks to potentially get a Quicksilver 1GHz G4 tower with a Zip drive, so while having a desktop 68k Mac would be cool, you're right - they all serve their own purposes.

Ooh sounds like a solid setup. I would love a desktop Mac II of some sort - all I end up with is compact Macs and PowerPC stuff 😅

Okay fair enough. What kind of Mac are you using?

Would Photoshop work? I know it probably doesn't have swatches. Does Adobe Indesign exist on System 7?

No worries! I do have a 512K with later ROMs and a very late model Plus, so if that's of interest for testing do let me know

I had to recap my SE PSU due to some voltage issues but aside from some wonky video (still gotta fix that, and the floppy drives), there's really only the PSU to worry about, and if nothing happens on the video side of things then you should be good. Have you done any floppy maintenance? I...

Dang. I've never had a flyback spark on me before, I always wait too long or it has a bleeder installed.

I would be happy to test with a Plus and 512K, and any future SE and Classic models.

I think it's a generic socket @jmb2011

Yes those sound fine. Have you consulted the dead mac scrolls? Might be something in there worth looking at.

The traces act as fuses :D

Sounds good. I've never opened the AB side of my slot loaders but I do have experience on the Tray Loader. Let me know if you need any more advice though!

Can't say I know anything but you could always let the Mac discharge for a week or so to make sure no capacitors have much charge left.

This is exactly right. If making new projects causes arguments and attacks from the community (re: BlueSCSI), then where is the motivation to make these projects going to go? All it does it damage the hobby and causes more problems then it solves. We need to understand that sometimes not...