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Macintosh Classic II - Help Needed

Posted on 2018-05-11, 15:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey y'all, a long time ago I got 2 Mac classic IIs. One of them had a shot CRT, so I parted it out. The other one had the stars and stripes problem, so I washed it with vinegar and put it back in and it didn't give me a display at all. Both boards are non-working, does anyone have advice for me - …

Re: Old hardware you didn't take or buy... but might still want?

Posted on 2018-01-04, 15:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I passed up a huge haul of old parts because of the promise that we would return. It's been 4 years and I'm pretty sure most of it has been recycled. (even though I am going down there this summer to look!)

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-05, 22:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Didn't know people still had these to recycle. MFM disk was bad.

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-09-30, 18:58

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Decided to put the PS/2 together despite its floppy drive not working 😵 (working on a fix right now, could maybe use some pinouts of the riser for the PS/2 70? not the same as the PS/2 80 or the PS/2 P70)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-30, 18:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This was a lil while ago, but it was one hell of a haul Consisted of: 2 AST Power Premium 486's (both have some corrosion but one is in way better condition, and gives me a beep code. the other one is dead in the water) 2 Mac SE's (one with a dim CRT, but they both work and one even has a turboSE …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-07-10, 10:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@armankordi - nice collection! Which are your favorite so far? I have many, many favorites.. All of my PS/2's certainly, my main 486DX/2 build (DOS6.2/WFW3.11, DX/2 66, Cirrus Logic GL5426 VLB 1MB, 32MB ram, 500MB HDD, AWE32 value) (the midtower next to the PS/2 77i), the Compaq Deskpro EN tower ( …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-07-08, 07:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It's been a while, vogons. Here's all my beige 1987-2004 stuff. (Not pictured: ACR Power Premium 4/33, a Mac Classic II and SE, a Gateway Celeron 800, an Athlon 64 and finally a Packard Bell 620. They are not pictured because they're in for repairs.)

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-07-08, 06:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Comparing my collection from 2012 to now. Note: In 2012, the only machine I had was the PS/2 Model 70, and the Compaq Deskpro.

Re: IBM PS/2 floppy disk drive restore / repair

Posted on 2017-04-06, 04:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do have also ALPS drive on my ibm model 95XP(i guess this is very rare pc as haven't seen anyone sell one..) and now i came conclusion after many tries it just not read disk. so changing caps is needed. armankordi please can you tell me the right value for the cap rated 10 ? is it just 10uF? and …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-12, 04:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hoo boy aren't I lucky! I found this in a recycling dumpster along with other junk. I almost gave up until I saw this thing! The guy who owned the recycler got mad at me :lol: so I took a quick look at whatever else I could find, unfortunately this was it. 486/early pentium build incoming.... ( …

Re: IBM PS/2 floppy disk drive restore / repair

Posted on 2016-12-01, 06:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did the same thing with my PS/2 P70's ALPS drive, but my desktop 70's drive (also alps) seems to not work. I have another Mitsumi drive that has some mechanical problem, but a solder pad is ripped off from where a cap is supposed to be. Pics or it didn't happen:

Help with PS/2 Floppy drives

Posted on 2015-12-08, 20:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

I need all the advice and info about IBM PS/2 card edge floppy drives. I have a ps/2 drive that uses pins, if anyone can tell me if I can adapt that to card edge that would make me very happy.

Re: Still much old hardware available?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Every once in a while, there are loads of old 486-pentium 3 hardware in my area, and of course with that collectors scramble to the thrift shops and buy them up. I find lots of pentium 4 stuff as people have said, but on occasion i do see the 486/pentium PC, and with that i normally pick them up for …

Re: 486 Cache issues

Posted on 2015-07-12, 07:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kixs wrote: Also check the jumpers for correct amount of installed cache. Try to set the slowest cache timings. Its supposedly "automatic", and there is a set for amount and it is correct.

486 Cache issues

Posted on 2015-07-12, 06:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently bought 64K (and 256K) of cache. The 64K is 20NS (256K 15NS). The problem with it is that the 486 hangs at WAIT... when internal and external cache active. I assumed that the TAG piece was bad since the seller said it looked bad (it was just faded). I used the TAG bit from the 256K pair …

Re: Packard bell legend 620 problems

Posted on 2015-06-22, 00:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NO stand-offs, no burnt VRMs.. the BIOS chip does look a little strange though.. maybe i'll get a diagnostics card off eBay and see.

Re: Packard bell legend 620 problems

Posted on 2015-06-19, 09:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bump. would like to get this thing working pls.

Re: What is your age?

Posted on 2015-06-09, 01:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

16, god damn this thread makes me feel young. I used to watch my dad play in his office with all these PC's, kinda what got me interested (and what gave me half a collection!)

Re: Vogons IRC?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 03:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

I didn't think we'd actually be VOTING for what IRC to use! 😎 this is gonna be awesome.

IRC channel recommendations, and maybe a VOGONS IRC?

Posted on 2015-04-07, 18:52

in Milliways

in Milliways

Maybe vogons should start an IRC chat? Sounds like a good idea to me, personally

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