Derating tantalum capacitors is important when dealing with older technology. While a 16V electrolytic capacitor may have been sufficient for a 12V line … Continue reading
Category: Apple
Osborne 486 5.25″ Floppy Drive Addition
The floppy drive that now powers this unit was taken from the Wyse 286 desktop I had a quick peek at earlier. It’s no … Continue reading
Apple Macintosh LC 475 Demo
The above video an overview of how to get your classic Mac back up and running and also for my reference so I know which … Continue reading
Apple Macintosh LC475 RAM Utilisation
Found that my RAM was all being eaten up by the system because 32-bit addressing was not turned on by default in System 7.5.3. I had 36MB of RAM, 30MB of it was allocated to the system software. Turned on … Continue reading
The Apple Macintosh LC 475
Finally got around to getting a clean system installed onto the LC 475 I picked up a few weeks back. I’ve taken some video of the install process, and although the hard drive sounds like it is going to shatter, … Continue reading
Acquisitions Inbound
Picked up a Sega Mega-CD video tape advertisement. Brand new and sealed. Look forward to opening it up, smelling that 90s air and uploading the video to YouTube. Stay tuned for that. I’ll need to upload the Saturn demo VHS … Continue reading
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