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Apple Archeology: A "shed found" Apple II+ filled with cards
What is inside an Apple II+ that sat in a leaking shed for at least thirty years? Adrian Black opens it up, looks over the cards and tries to get it running.
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That Amber Glow: Fixing a shed-found 9" composite monitor (USI Pi4)
Found in the same shed as the recent Apple II+, a broken USI Pi4 amber monitor is the next job, and the maker sets about getting it working.
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Apple 400k Single Sided Floppy Drive Refresh
An Apple 400K single sided floppy drive, taken from the Lisa 2/5 under restoration on Adrian's main channel, gets a refresh of its own, with a Sony drive service manual linked.
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Repairing a motherboard with a subtle intermittent fault
An intermittent fault on a CompuAdd SCAT386SX motherboard takes a long diagnosis, one of the hardest the maker has dealt with. The C&T chipset datasheet is linked.
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Test and try: Macintosh Centris 610 (with a "sassy" recap)
Is a 1993 Macintosh Centris 610 still working? Adrian Black opens the pizza box case, recaps and cleans the board, then gives the machine a test run.
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When a battery leaks, does the motherboard make a sound?
Four old boards from a junk box, a 286, two 386DX and a 486DX with an overdrive CPU, are powered up to see which still work, with battery leaks in mind.
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A very used up (and broken) Sony Trinitron from 1976
Sony's 1976 KV-9200, a small early Trinitron, is worn out and broken, and the maker says it needed some repair before it would run again.
