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Picked up a few macs, don't know where to start
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There's an American version that's 120V AC. Also, I guess it's been succeeded by the "FX-888DX".
This one looks slick
But I found the updated Hakka in a gray instead of that ugly ass blue purple color https://www.ebay.com/itm/336140635258
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/385027125291 seems to be selling well too.But I found the updated Hakka in a gray instead of that ugly ass blue purple color https://www.ebay.com/itm/336140635258
Hello, whats up everyone? Its been a busy week at work, haven't had any time to do anything. There is alot to do still I havent gotten to the SPARCstations yet I counted 26 in total I believe 6 are SPARC 10s, and there are another 5 that are 1, 1+, or 2, these are the pizza box style. Then there are 15 that are the more square body that is a mix of LX, IPC, IPX.
Today I realized all of the 3 total 6xxx series macs that I have were maxell battery bombed.
I have purchased a soldering setup I went with the Hakko FX-888D. This particular ebay seller https://www.ebay.com/itm/388841115313 accepted my offer for $70 and it seems like its basically new, I will update when I get it. With shipping it came in under 100. This will be my starting setup on my journey to recapping and repairing.
Today I realized all of the 3 total 6xxx series macs that I have were maxell battery bombed.
I have purchased a soldering setup I went with the Hakko FX-888D. This particular ebay seller https://www.ebay.com/itm/388841115313 accepted my offer for $70 and it seems like its basically new, I will update when I get it. With shipping it came in under 100. This will be my starting setup on my journey to recapping and repairing.
The DOS compatibility cards in them are still nice finds.
Thanks for reminding me yes all of them had that sticker on them. I also noticed 1 or 2 of the sparcstations had had some sort of cards in the top slot that the others didnt, I did not open them up yet. Those were in the larger body IPC style ones. I don't believe you can tell whats in the pizza box ones from looking at the back? They all looked the same. I have to work another full day tomorrow and sunday is my only day off for the week I will do something then
Ha. I didn’t notice that. And I just realized my recreation label uses the forward slash. (Had to replace it after retrobrighting). Good catch. I may have to replace the label now.
I think the Hakko FX-888D is a good unit, but the interface to adjust temperature is unintuitive and as such, I unknowningly threw mine out of calibration merely by adjusting the temperature offset, not the desired temperature. Nobody has a soldering iron calibration thing where I live either. And they're expensive.
It's also commonly faked and cloned. Ordered mine direct from Hakko to save myself the trouble.
It's also commonly faked and cloned. Ordered mine direct from Hakko to save myself the trouble.
I found a charger for the ol' pentium 3 thinkpad. She fired right up. Had a password to login so i did a system recovery with a full disk format and here we are running a fresh install of Windows 98 SE. It sounds good and is snappier than I expected. 600mhz P3 with 192mb ram. ATI graphics. Battery is shot though of course. Been so busy lately with work im doing 6 days a week with only one day off, still havent gotten around to tearing into anything else. But im happy about this. I am going to go see if the charger works on any of the older 486 laptops and see if those will fire up
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Got home today at 4 so wanted to spend the rest of the day going through some of the PCs. I grabbed three to start with, with towers i thought were nice.
This is the 1st one. The oldest one. I really like this little micro case I think its sharp looking. This one is a 386 and looks to be in good shape, but man are there wires all over inside lol.
I actually have another identical one (so I thought) but it ended up not being a 386 but a 486sx2, which had battery damage to the board. I have several 486s though so I will likely take a good 486 board from another case and put it into the other one like this, because i like this case style...
This is the 1st one. The oldest one. I really like this little micro case I think its sharp looking. This one is a 386 and looks to be in good shape, but man are there wires all over inside lol.
I actually have another identical one (so I thought) but it ended up not being a 386 but a 486sx2, which had battery damage to the board. I have several 486s though so I will likely take a good 486 board from another case and put it into the other one like this, because i like this case style...
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This next one is an unbranded so it might have been a home build from the 90s. It just has a Pentium III badge on the front thats it. The board is an Asus and the PSU is an Enlight, on the back of the case a sticker says 450mhz. Thats all I know about it thus far. Seems to be some generic graphics card in there, id like to put something nice in it and make a retro gaming rig perhaps in the future...
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I like this one alot might be my favorite. Alot of the PC cases were in rough shape or missing a cover or rusty/dented. This one is nice.
Its a ZEOS Pantera, I believe it a Pentium 1. I am not certain what speed but the wiki says they ranged from 66 to 233 mhz. So somewhere in there. They were pretty high end pcs in the 90s from what I read and you don't see alot of them around anymore (so Ive read, it may or may not be true. Nothing on ebay though..). I really like the looks of it. I will take that highly yellowed top disk drive out and add a cdrom drive from one of the other parts machines.
Its a ZEOS Pantera, I believe it a Pentium 1. I am not certain what speed but the wiki says they ranged from 66 to 233 mhz. So somewhere in there. They were pretty high end pcs in the 90s from what I read and you don't see alot of them around anymore (so Ive read, it may or may not be true. Nothing on ebay though..). I really like the looks of it. I will take that highly yellowed top disk drive out and add a cdrom drive from one of the other parts machines.
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Only if one has the AV card or L2 cache simm.
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