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Mac Color Classic Restoration Completed
Posted by: MegaImg on 2020-09-14 09:46:36
Bellow, my finish Mac Color Classic Restoration:

  • Disassemble and clean Everything
  • Recap Original Logic Board and Analog Board
  • Fix and Recap a LC 550 Logic board to convert it to a Mac Classic II - Previous owner try to re-cap and damage capacitor pad
  • Service Floppy Drive
  • Replace HD with SCSI2SD 5.1 with 3d printed mount
  • Fix issue with no sound on speaker - speaker cable damage - fix
  • Ethernet Card
  • Add Co-Processor
  • Retrobright 
  • 20mb of RAM and 512vRAM
  • 0.jpg1-CC.jpg2-LC550.jpg3- Analog_Board.jpg4-  SCSI2SD.jpg5.jpg6.jpg
Posted by: Alex on 2020-09-14 17:15:57
How does the CRT perform pre and post recap?

Posted by: MegaImg on 2020-09-15 09:15:25
How does the CRT perform pre and post recap?
In this unit I didnt see any difference. The original capacitor where in good shape.

Posted by: Alex on 2020-09-17 05:11:25
Thank you for sharing this and for the reply. The machine looks marvelous. Good job!

Posted by: Rjp663 on 2020-09-18 19:00:15
Nice Job!

Posted by: tt on 2020-09-21 15:35:46
Looks great, especially the A/B restoration. Do you have a reference for what parts you used for that part of the restoration?

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