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Macintosh Classic horizontal line
- Thread starter Retro Rider
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Same here, I'll have 2 working, well, 1 because the SE/30 won't have a good hard drive and SCSI2SDs are super expensive for me.
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I've been looking for CF to SCSI adapters because I already have some CF cards and I fell like they would be cheap, but I can't find any
Where do you find them though? It's super weird that they're so rare, most stuff like this wouldn't be (at least I would think)
I bought the SE "working" off ebay 2 years ago with a bad 20mb scsi harddrive. I upgraded all the roms and bought a super drive just for ease of use. I also upgraded to 4MB of ram (which was an undertaking since I didnt know there was a jumper/trace to set the ram amount at the time. the classic I got maybe a month ago for $25.00 knowing it was broken. I figured the hard drive CRT and floppy at least would be worth that if it was dead.
The Plus I paif $50 for last fall. It worked but when I got it home found the battery compartment/Analog board and chassis very rusty. In cleaning the rust and corrosion something failed on the analog board so Im still working on fixing that (it has the horizontal line like yours)
The Plus I paif $50 for last fall. It worked but when I got it home found the battery compartment/Analog board and chassis very rusty. In cleaning the rust and corrosion something failed on the analog board so Im still working on fixing that (it has the horizontal line like yours)
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Supply & demand.
SCSI is effectively dead except for a few specialty applications and vintage enthusiasts.
There just isn't sufficient demand for these items for the price to come down or become more widely available.
Could these 2 be part of the issue?
They were the only ones that looked kinda off and there was a weird smell coming from that area
that corrosion is caused by the leakage of the 2 caps nearby.
yes, those caps are bad, and if they are most likely others are bad too. Those are Diodes (the things in black) they could be faulty but I would replace all the caps first. The smell is the electrolyte that oozed from the capacitors. That ooze will corrode ALL the exposed metal and traces if not cleaned up/.
