Recent content by chasnah

I'm going to be working on repairing the Macs I got from an estate around Thanksgiving. Fixing a SE/30 with some corrosion damage on the frame and around the edge of the motherboard (Not from its own PRAM battery), recapping a IIci & IIsi, and looking over the software and documentation that...

Hello, I found this Apple II card in a box of PC parts I bought from a college auction a few years ago and it's been an enigma to me since. It's missing every single IC on it; and the only identifying markings are Arctec Inc. Apple Interface Board and a sticker with CM8502-010002. My best...

I previously made a post about swapping the IDE controller from a dead Rev. B motherboard onto a working Rev. A motherboard. After some more thinking I came up with a better solution to my problem, using the Rev. A board to fix the dead Rev. B board. The dead board would power on but only give...

I previously acquired a PowerMac G3 Blue & White system that had a dead mainboard, only gives 4 beeps on startup indicating something's wrong with the boot rom. I did manage to find a really good deal on a replacement mainboard with only one issue. The replacement board is a REV. A with the...

I figured out that my DB25 BlueSCSI is just straight up broken in a way that it would work on my Mac SE/30 and newer machines but won't work on my Mac Plus or the Cirtech card. After redoing the ugly solder work I had originally done on it now I can barely even get it to work right on the newer...

I got incredibly lucky with my 180 having a perfect display, iirc it was produced fairly late into the 180's run.

I picked up a Cirtech card last week and I've been fighting to get my DB25 External BlueSCSI to work with it. The card is definitely accessing the BlueSCSI but I haven't been able to do anything to drive images on the SD card. With the support disk it came with it only ever throws mode sense and...