Had myself a vintage apple day… —
I was sick this past weekend and decided to have some fun with a few of my vintage apples to pass the time 😉
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WANTED, Dead or alive! —
I am in search of two different “laptop” portables from the late 80’s. Toshiba T1600 – 80286 laptop with “blue” EGA monochrome LCD display FOUND Grid GridCase 1520 – 80286 laptop with “orange” Gas-Plasma monochrome display If anyone has any leads on either one it would be much appreciated. My offer on price is conditional on […]
Repaired a few old motherboards. —
Found a few old motherboards in my storage, for some odd reason all 3 were missing their AT keyboard ports. Put in an order to digikey for some 5-Din AT Keyboards ports and soldered them in. The Acer Pentium board also had a badly leaking capacitor that was replaced. Followup, The Acer board does not […]
Partially recapped my PowerBook 100 —
I have partially recapped my PowerBook 100 with great success, it now boots up. The down side is my soldering iron crapped out mid-project, so I will have to finish replacing all the old SMD aluminum caps later, but I got all the ones that were visibly leaking, and it now boots, so I will […]
Sony DPP-SV55 (and SV77, SV88) and Windows 7 —
So I decided to pull out my old Sony dye sublimation photo printer which I hadn’t used in some time, only to find Sony dropped support for it after Windows XP. After hearing about other peoples success with old scanners under “XP Mode” I figured I would try with this old printer, and it worked […]
Recapped my SE/30… —
Won’t win any prizes, but I have recapped my SE/30 and restored it to 100% working condition. Next Mac I recap I will be ordering and using tantalum capacitors, I was anxious to get this SE/30 working so I used radial electrolytic capacitors I already had on hand, looks like crap, but at least it works […]
Decided I wanted a new “tweener” machine that has ISA slots… —
I knew I had a super 7 board with ISA lying out in the garage in parts box, found it was a Gigabyte GA-5SMM with a Cyrix 266 in it. Took a scrapped Compaq DeskPro EXD desktop style mini-ATX case (originally a Celeron 800 by its sticker), 20gb HD, 128mb RAM, CD-ROM, 3.5 & 5.25″ floppies, Intel […]
Added More content… —
Well I have added some more content recently, getting close to where it was before the site was hacked.
Back online…. —
Well my site is back online, however all the content is going to have to be recreated, so bear with me. Remember kids, always keep current backups.