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| Picked up a few macs, don't know where to start | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-01 18:15:36 I had a relaxing labor day weekend didn't get anything productive done just alot of empty cans and bottles, after work tomorrow ill start tearing into some more shit 😀 | |
Posted by: KennyPowers on 2025-09-01 18:27:02I am liking this one. At right around 100 dollars its cheap enough. It says its 220V though is that common for these lol its like a welderThere's an American version that's 120V AC. Also, I guess it's been succeeded by the "FX-888DX". | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-01 18:48:07 This one looks slick YIHUA 948-IIhttps://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 | |
| Posted by: robin-fo on 2025-09-02 02:50:23 We have JBC soldering stations at work and these are very useful for this sort of work. The clones featured in the video might therefore be something for you. | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-05 17:03:43 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. | |
Posted by: KennyPowers on 2025-09-05 17:11:36Today I realized all of the 3 total 6xxx series macs that I have were maxell battery bombed.The DOS compatibility cards in them are still nice finds. | |
Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-05 18:11:00The 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 | |
| Posted by: killvore on 2025-09-05 21:57:57 Nice! The DOS compatibility cards from the 61xx-style machines should also work in any Quadra with a Quadra-style PDS, if you can't repair the bombed logic boards and want to put the DOS card somewhere else. | |
Posted by: wottle on 2025-09-06 19:44:59I knew this had to be the way but i thought how could that be the official method lol. Going to do it now thanksYeah, had this sticker on the back of a 030 upgraded Mac Plus.  | |
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2025-09-07 15:15:08 It's interesting they used a backslash ('\') between "020" and "030," rather than the more commonly used forward slash ('/'). I wonder why that is? c | |
Posted by: wottle on 2025-09-07 15:17:52It's interesting they used a backslash ('\') between "020" and "030," rather than the more commonly used forward slash ('/').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. | |
| Posted by: Mk.558 on 2025-09-07 22:43:24 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. | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-13 19:11:11 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 | |
| Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2025-09-13 21:24:26 Nice! Those were solid laptops in their day. Far superior to what Dell was offering. I have an old T-23 I still use for accessing the ECM in my truck. | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-14 16:26:13 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... | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-14 16:29:37 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... | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-14 16:39:02 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. | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-09-14 19:18:03 The hakko is a good choice. Just what I have used for years. | |
| Posted by: kurb69 on 2025-09-15 16:35:16 So I have a 7100/80 and a 7100/66 are there any differences between them aside from processor speed? Wondering if i should keep one or both. Going to open those ones up next probably tomorrow they are at my other place and i am BEAT today | |
Posted by: eharmon on 2025-09-15 17:37:48So I have a 7100/80 and a 7100/66 are there any differences between them aside from processor speed? Wondering if i should keep one or both.Only if one has the AV card or L2 cache simm. | |
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