I'm trying to breath life back into my old Mac SE (800K floppy, 20Mb
HD). It was working fine and starting up from the HD but now the HD
spins up but the screen just shows the disk with a '?' in the middle,
which I believe means the System has gone awol.
The trouble is I have absolutely no
I was moving some computers out of storage in our unfinished upstairs to the
new storage shed out back, and found that the Lithium CMOS battery in my
neat old IBM PS/2 Model 60 (monstrous tower that actually has a carrying
handle!) had leaked and caused a mess inside. :-( I think I have another
Charles,
I have the know-how and experience, but I am located in Japan so it
would be too expensive for me to do it. However, there are some over
at the 68kMLA who might be willing to help you in the US:
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=7
Just post a query over there and you will
I did it folks! And I must say, a pretty fine job. My SE/30 is singing
again.
It's not as much difficult as it is PREPARATION and PATIENCE.
I gently twisted the old caps off with needle nose pliers with a
slight back/forth twisting motion until they popped off, leaving the
legs and the original
On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:00 PM, GuyWithGuitars wrote:
legs or solder. NOT necessary to remove the old legs. Ya gotta trust
me on this….
But it's best if you do remove them. Cut the tops of the old caps off with
sharp cutters, and remove the can. This should leave the legs. Clean the area
