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That’s not mold, it’s corrosion and other byproducts of the leaking batteries. It can (possibly) be repaired, but will take a lot more than simple cleaning.

I’d be interested in this too. Not least because I enjoy stuffing and soldering PCBs.

No, not as far as I know. The logic board was redesigned for the ROM03 machines, so you can't put a ROM3 on a ROM0/1 board, or vice versa.

I really don't understand this. There's a limited amount of Lisa hardware in the world. Not all of it can feasibly be refurbished. If you'd rather do your own repair and refurbishment, you should! But why call this garbage? I've never paid to have an old computer repaired, nor do I plan to. A...

As a hardware engineer myself, those prices don’t seem outrageous. They’re going to sell hardly any of them in the scheme of things. And I’m sure they’ve spent countless hours doing the engineering for them. I’m just excited to see somebody doing something so cool for a machine that is a small...

This is super cool. Sapient Technologies (Todd Meyer) has announced that they're going to be making new replacements for several Lisa boards in partnership with other Lisa enthusiasts: http://www.callapple.org/hardware/the-apple-lisa-hardware-conservation-project/ I think this is especially...

He’s working on more right now. I’m on his email list, and he sent out an update a few days ago.

I'm interested in the 128K with "Macintosh 128K" badge (ie. second-generation 128K) if we can put together a pool of people buying.

http://oldsoftware.comsells old software. A lot of it is new old stock. If you're looking for something specific, I'd call or email them. I don't get the impression that they keep their website super up to date. (Disclaimer: The owner of the site was a former neighbor and is a friend of my...

Replacing all the caps, the 24V (28V) regulator U1, and Q5 on the video board did the trick. Seems to be running beautifully now: So, still on my list is the serial number issue, as well as replacing the foam pads in the keyboard. Thanks so much for the help here!

Thanks for the advice, Rick. I don't see a screen mod transformer. As I understand it, it would normally be affixed to the side of the card cage to the right of the CRT. There's nothing there, nor any evidence that it was once there. Here's a photo I just took: (The video board is missing and...

Thanks everyone. The adjustment wouldn't take the width far enough to fill the screen. It seems like a good idea to recap the video board at the very least, so I've got it out and am doing just that. I'll troubleshoot and fix the deflection issue after recapping.

I recently got my hands on a Lisa 2/10 in amazing cosmetic condition, but non-working. I repaired the power supply by recapping it and replacing the transformer that's part of the 5V standby and 18V power supply, which was bad. I also disassembled, cleaned, and lubricated the floppy disk load...

I could write a Mac (or iOS) app to generate the visualization without _too_ much trouble. I'm sure there are also existing programs that could do it. The hard part is getting the benchmark data for every model going back to the Mac 128K, I think.

A little more information: I measured the voltages coming out of the power supply. With the logic board connected (but floppy and HDD disconnected entirely), the voltages are around 11.2V and 2.2V. With the logic board disconnected, the 5V rail is about where it should be ~4.9V. This seems to...

I have a Mac Classic II that I picked up for next to nothing recently. When I power it on, the fan starts up, but the screen stays blank. The floppy drive makes a little noise every few seconds. Otherwise, nothing happens. My first thought was bad caps, as I know that's a common problem in...

I never did get the Mac Plus to boot from the SCSI2SD. I saw something regarding Mac Plus ROMs prior to version 3 having a bug where drives that issue unit attention on power up will cause the Mac to go into a reset loop and fail to boot. (See http://www.jagshouse.com/plusrom.html).The SCSI2SD...

I was thinking the exact same thing. I've been wanting an excuse to buy a FloppyEmu anyway. Thanks all for the help and suggestions!

Thanks, tjjq44. That formatted the disk just fine, but unfortunately did not make it bootable. I appreciate you helping, though. Based on the information here: http://mcosre.sourceforge.net/docs/rom_v.html, my Plus appears to have ROM v3 (checksum 4D1F8172). How would one go about copying the...

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I had already set my SCSI2SD up to mimic a recognized drive, so the patched HD SC Setup isn't necessary. I'm running HD SC Setup from the 6.0.8 install disks as we speak and will report back. Thanks! I'd love to try that if formatting with HD SC Setup...