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AlanGrassiaSo a thing happened today!After researching, watching videos, procrastinating, watching more videos, talking to friends, drinking lots of coffee, and did even more procrastinating, I removed leaky caps from a <a href="https://noc.social/tags/MacClassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacClassic</a> system board! This was my first attempt at removing caps from a board. Not too bad.Dealing with C2 and C8 are going to be “fu”n. 🤣😇<a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a>

Corbin DavenportSoftware Update is still working on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, released in 2005. Pretty cool that no one has turned off those servers yet! <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mac</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a>

Space RogueNot so lucky on the rust. A bit more extensive than thought. Will be lucky if this boots, and that serial port is toast. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macse30" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macse30</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Space RogueThe card in the SE/30 is a Shiva Etherport with thicknet and coax connectors. Score! Hope it works. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macse30" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macse30</a>

Space RogueThe hard drive might be bad and I don’t have any floppies to test with but the fact that it gets this far and seems to be all original is pretty amazing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacSE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a>

David NelsonMe on my family’s first computer, around 1993-1994. Macintosh LC 475 with AppleCD 300e, SupraFAXModem 14400, Gravis MouseStick II. Not pictured, we also had a StyleWriter II.I was playing a flight simulator. I can’t tell from the photo, but it was either Hellcats over the Pacific or F/A-18 Hornet by Graphic Simulations. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThrowbackThursday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Ade ThompsonTrying to find some classic Mac OS X software (PPC) that allowed you to serve a webcam feed and or desktop snapshot over the web. I used to use it back in the day but for the life of me I can’t remember its name. Anyone remember the name of such software? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ClassicMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassicMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a>

David Nelson<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroApple</a>

loriQuick question retro Mac people: where should I order replacement capacitors (in the US) for the Macintosh SE 30 I got? I was checking out a YouTube tutorial but it linked to a cart for a Japanese website, is that actually the best place for me to order from in the US or are there better options where I don't have to pay as much for shipping? I had to assume if they were ordering from Japan there was a reason for it but I'd like to know my options first because my hobby budget is strained right now. I don't have the parts list in front of me but just assume that I need to replace any of the typical stuff you'd need to replace in an otherwise decent looking b&w Mac (capacitors, battery, etc.)<a href="https://hackers.town/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retropc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retropc</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a>

loriAlright fedi it's your time to shine: I've just obtained an untested Macintosh SE/30 for $45. I figure for that price I'd take it just to gut and make a fun project out of the shell if it's totally dead, but I'm hoping it's not, haven't gotten it home yet. If anyone has any advice about these computers (in terms of repair or common problems or something I need to worry about exploding if I plug this guy in) let me know because my retro Mac knowledge only goes back to the iMac G3.Hashtag spam for visibility: <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mac</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintagecomptuing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomptuing</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintagecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputer</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintageapple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageapple</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retroapple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroapple</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a>

Francis 🏴‍☠️ GulottaAnyone around Seattle into old Macs? Not that old but still up there. I cannot remember what it is but family is about to chuck it. <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retromac</a>I’m 90% sure it can dual boot os9 and osx*EDIT* and it's spoken for, thank you everyone who piped up and shared this around

Spike :donor:I wish I could see some of this gold lettering that had been made on an Apple ImageWriter in 1986<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MacHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacHistory</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Byte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Byte</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1986-11_OCR/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1986-11_OCR/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇Haha oh yeahhhh functional wifi on a Mac that only has a 9600 baud modem in it. It just feels wrong that this works so well. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇I have continued futzing around with the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> 145B. My weekend project was to remove the ancient, decrepit SCSI hard drive (functional, but loud as heck) and replace it with the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Androda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Androda</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BlueSCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlueSCSI</a>, a custom PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W attached to it. (The Pi Pico W also gives the PowerBook an internal WiFi connection, something the original never had.)Fortunately I already have some experience working with .hda disk image files from last year's <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PiSCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PiSCSI</a> project, so I had some ready-made virtual hard disks loaded with software I've barely touched.Today at <a href="https://post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mediaarchaeologylab</a> I found a floppy disk for the 1995 Norton Disk Editor, a low-level diagnostic tool that I can't imagine there was much consumer demand for. The disk editor contains some hidden gems of MacIntosh lore I was previously unaware of.The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume."(Edit: I don't know if Apple had its own version of ASCII, but while in traditional ASCII hex 0x4244 = "BD," ASCII hex values for "RW" would be 0x5257, not 0xD2D7, so that's...weird)Randy was employee number 6 at Apple, and a neighbor of Woz. Turning your initials into magic bytes buried in the filesystem you designed seems just so...early Apple.The PowerBook is now completely silent when it runs. It doesn't have an internal fan. The hard drive motor was the only thing that made any noise (aside from the speaker, of course).And the BlueSCSI? With a 128GB MicroSD card, it has about 1600 times as much storage as that old 80MB hard drive.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MakeShitMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MakeShitMonday</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇Duane Blehm...this sent me down a rabbit hole. And into a reverie about Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.<a href="https://archive.org/details/TheDuaneBlehmCollection" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TheDuaneBlehmCollection</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/adastra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adastra</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StrangeNewWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StrangeNewWorlds</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇This 1988 Solitaire game appears to feature He Who Remains as one of the card decks.(I love you can see every individual pixel when you look closely enough at the screen)<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Loki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Loki</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HeWhoRemains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeWhoRemains</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇The recap operation took four hours, mainly because I had never done it before and I was being extremely careful. It involves using a pliers to grab and delicately twist and wiggle each bad cap until its pins snapped off, then using a lot of flux and a soldering iron to clean off the pads. And alcohol, and q-tips. Lots and lots of q-tips.Once clean, I put a dab of solder on each trace on the new replacement Tantalum caps, fluxed the pads again, and soldered the new caps to the pads.It was definitely the most complex repair I've undertaken on a retrocomputer but it was a total success...for the monitor. The display is nice and bright and no longer has a grey halo around the border. But it didn't change the boot problems. The Mac now boots up with a happy sound and just sits there not showing the Welcome To Macintosh image, or the pointer. Just a freshly brightened blank screen. 😓<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇I've done some pretty major surgery on the PowerBook 145B tonight. While the laptop makes the happy Mac bootup sound, the display showed only a grey backlight, and never fully booted. The backlit display was dark around the edges of the screen - almost like the laptop had developed tunnel vision. I had previously replaced the PRAM battery with a new unit but it didn't fix the problem with booting, and it was clear there were more problems to resolve.Following the service manual, I opened up the display bezel, and removed the Sharp display from the laptop. Clearly, the electrolytic capacitors had been in a bad way for some time. There was evidence of leakage on both sides of the display board, as well as dried electrolyte residue crusting up circuit traces.The 11 capacitors on the display assembly needed to go.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇The tantalum capacitors have arrived and my tube of solder flux will be here shortly. Looks like it's going to be a weekend of recapping a laptop's display board. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a>

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇PowerBook 145BI have replaced the battery that was soldered to the PRAM subassemblyand which you were probably expecting was not user-serviceableForgive me it was delicious to hear that bootup sound again<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroMac</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a>

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