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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-17 17:17:46
Hey guys, I just received a Macintosh Portable M5126. I bought a battery from 360alaska and it works very well. 🙂
Battery pictures (thanks, alaska!):
Booting up:
It'll probably need to be recapped soon. It also came with the original carrying case which is really cool. 😛
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Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-08-17 17:45:49
That's a pretty good find! Say, is it backlit?
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-17 17:46:55
That's a pretty good find! Say, is it backlit? Yep, it's the backlit model.
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-08-17 18:13:06
Awesome find!
You should have it recapped NOW before it's too late. As I'm sure techknight will tell ya, bad caps can cause some permanent damage to particular chips.
Finding a working portable is quite rare, and believe me you don't want to run into problems with this thing!
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-17 18:26:03
Awesome find!
You should have it recapped NOW before it's too late. As I'm sure techknight will tell ya, bad caps can cause some permanent damage to particular chips.
Finding a working portable is quite rare, and believe me you don't want to run into problems with this thing! Also, the floppy doesn't eject properly so I have to manually do it. Has it just grown weak with time?
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-08-17 18:41:47
Is the mechanism sticky? You should re-lube that drive anyway. Also, you should check the worm shaft, sometimes it gets clogged up.
I don't think the eject motor is to blame, but perhaps the caps are... (As always when something is wrong, could be caps)
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-17 18:42:48
Is the mechanism sticky? You should re-lube that drive anyway. Also, you should check the worm shaft, sometimes it gets clogged up.
I don't think the eject motor is to blame, but perhaps the caps are... (As always when something is wrong, could be caps) I was thinking it could have been the caps too, yeah. Thanks.
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-18 08:14:39
By the way, it's also hard to get the floppy out manually. It takes quite a few tries to get it out using the manual eject hole. The machine is also reluctant to turn on and I have to hold those 2 programmer buttons on the side usually.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2016-08-18 11:40:08
Floppy drive is stuck and caps are on their way out, don't wait too much.
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-18 13:07:49
Floppy drive is stuck and caps are on their way out, don't wait too much. I'm probably gonna have to do it myself since I don't really have the spare money to pay for the repair + shipping.
Thankfully he has a cap list on his site!
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Posted by: bibilit on 2016-08-18 22:33:51
I you have never done it yourself keep in mind that there is a lot of caps to replace and some are very close from each other.
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Posted by: LarBob on 2016-08-19 10:50:56
I you have never done it yourself keep in mind that there is a lot of caps to replace and some are very close from each other. Yeah, I'll be sure to be careful. Definitely don't want to hurt this beauty!
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