BigBadBiologists BigBadBench | Starting the restoration of a Mac Classic II, some SE/30 upgrades, and diagnosing a cursed reloaded @BigBadBench | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
@GutBombTech picked me up this Macintosh Classic II. I love 68030 compact Macs, so let's explore this thing and see how bad its capacitors are. They are almost guaranteed to be leaky, but how bad is the damage?

I previously worked on this SE/30 reloaded board that had a bunch of issues:
youtube.com/live/dziZbLmWOAQ?si=KXZiDzwiIVBqH0Ce

I eventually got it working, but apparently it has more issues. Let's see if we can get it going. I also picked up 64mb of RAM for my SE/30 and one of new Garrett's Workshop ROMs, so let's get them running!
garrettsworkshop.github.io/MacIIROMSIMM/Documentation/GW4402BManual.pdf

I made a resource / map for recapping the North American 120v Mac Classic II analog board (asterisk means low ESR):
drive.google.com/file/d/1UfLTZlWfMpAezUHm71mNOb1JwwqiDptB/view?usp=sharing

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