There's no rush, I'll be off for the next two weeks too. I hope you get better soon.Sounds like a plan! I am going to try it first and see if its enough for my needs.. It probably is I just feel a little annoyed as I currently have 3 ebay issues right now after not really having any of note before.
I also had surgery on tuesday so cant lift anything for a week or 2. So my XP machine is way out of reach for the minute
Anyone using an older mac here? I've been a bit partial to watching older mac's being restored lately, after thinking of one a friend used to have. I wish I'd bought it off his parents back in the day, as the PSU (or something) had failed.
Used to have a lot of fun playing some terrible games on there. Don't remember what model he had, it was a smallish beige desktop system, non-tower.
A lot of them seem to go for silly money, but there are some models that don't have that cult status, and I'm not looking for a fashion accessory, just something old and rubbish to mess around with.
I never knew it was a coin battery inside, why did they even bother using the extra space and materials to cover it?I think there has been a few vintage mac users popping in and out of the thread. Cant recall any names tho.
My latest purchase arrived today. Packed well but apparently not DPD proof
The motherboard tray is removable and somehow had been shunted back about 15mm and also upwards. So it was fighting against the PCI and ISA cards. My main concern was the motherboard might have cracked as the 4 screws holding it in are the only points between the tray and the case.
Fortunately I was able to take it apart and bend it all back to the right shape and it booted straight up!
Next up was to see how my luck was with the dallas chip.. Socket or not..
Well I was lucky again as it was socketed. But while removing is something odd happened that I have not seen before. The cap of the chip popped off exposing the battery inside..
That should make modding it to take a CR2032 very easy
I think the picoboot only has 4 wee points to solder, and they are quite accessible… non of them are tiny!
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Should have done a few pics of doing the Pico Boot to mine last month, it's a really easy job to do! Getting the 60mhz mod on my mega dive was miles more frustrating to do... There's two points to solder onto chip legs (just need a bit of care to not bridge them) then 3 others that are super easy to get to on the board. Take about 2 mins to sort the pico boot and the mini sd card thing works exceptionally well
Are you getting rid of them for a reason? (I dont need/want them but dont throw them out!
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