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Apple II Repair and Rom Testing With TL866

What Happened! It was a good day. Then I turned on my Apple II Europlus, which by the way was working perfectly, and instead of the usual boot up screen got a bunch of corrupted characters. No beep just a strange buzzing. So begins my first Apple II repair. Troubleshooting After reseating every chip on […]

By Retronerd

November 26, 2024December 2, 2024

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Apple iMac G3 Renovation

I acquired two of these so this is the first in a 2 part series on Apple iMac G3 Renovation. This iMac G3 is a model M5521 Indigo with a 500MHz PowerPC cpu, 320Mb Ram and a 20Gb hard drive. The first issue I noticed was the state of the keyboard so decided to give […]

By Retronerd

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024

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Apple Mac Classic Renovation

Here are a couple of classic Macs which were in desperate need of attention. This is a write up progress so far. This Apple Mac Classic renovation is not a tutorial but a log of the steps involved. Excuse the photo as I forgot to take detailed photos when they arrived. The classic is on […]

By Retronerd

July 28, 2022April 9, 2023