Molex Power Connector found living in my IIcx! =8-O

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Interesting, I don't ever remember seeing a "standard" power plug mounted on a Mac logic board before this. Do any other Mac boards have such peculiar growths?

 

[360alaska]

Yep. all of the Macintosh II/ and some of the IIx and IIfx.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Well, that explains that. My pet IIfx hasn't got one and haven't seen another MoBo in that series in what seems like a lifetime ago. I lost my beloved IIx and the IIci in the storage room whirlpool disaster about ten years ago when I was hospitalized. Whoever bid on that one got a treasure trove of  "really nice garage workshop" grade Craftsman power tools (from before they sent manufacturing offshore) and the sweetest suite of industrial sheet metal and iron working tools that I miss so much. :'(

Considering how stubborn those #$%^&-@+ connectors are on a "strain relieved" cable or from a peripheral's RA soldertail connector, it'd be a wonder if nobody has ever torn up their logic board trying to remove one of those vertically mounted suckers. Talk about lifting pads!!! 8-o

 

[joethezombie]

Now I'm sad. 

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I'll have to post some pics of the Macs and Clones that probably perished due to that particularly serious lapse of sanity. I was much blessed that my parents kept up my apartment rent payments or I'd have lost everything and been homeless. Coming out of that one alive, relatively sane and making those first baby steps toward controlling the ravaging swings of manic-depression was worth the world to me, literally. I'm open about that (if anonymously online) in the attempt to help others. A mind is a terrible thing to lose, so take care of yourselves, comrades.