Oh well, and now I find that I've ordered the wrong sized components as the manfacturer's size codes are impenetrable. I spent about half an hour pawing through the spec sheets trying to work out what dimensions the components were. *sigh*

The 47uF ones are too small and the 10uF ones too large.

As it happens, I do have pictures. I always document the "before" state so I can refer back to it...

Of course you can't do that if the cap is right next to a sensitive plastic part. That would be the case for two 10uF and two 1uF caps on the Macintosh Portable.

I'm recapping a Macintosh Portable and it's a lot of surface mount capacitors... Horrid things! It does help that they're nearly falling off the circuit board a lot of the time. I try to cut them so as not to stress the board but they just come away. Of the 10 47uF caps all but two did this. Then th...

Apparently, if you use the correct "salt" it has anti-corrosion chemicals which means that it's possibly even good for the electronic equipment. Just don't use the drying cycle!

How about this site for the PS conversion? https://www.ps2pdf.com/

The 68000 wouldn't be able to access 32 bit RAM directly anyway as it has a 16 bit data bus. However the 68020/030 etc. can access a 32 bit bus directly. In the case of the 68030 with its data and instruction caches this would benefit processing, even if the instructions themselves are 16 bit as the...

Well, it's not sentient yet, so eat it.

I was wondering how much swap he'd given the machine. Then again the swap partition on a BSD box should only be 'RAM-size x 2' anyway.

I've been trying to get the Amiga A1200 hooked up with the OSSC scan converter via VGA and have hit an issue with display noise. When connected via SCART the display looks lovely, but that can only handle 15KHz interlaced modes. However, when connected via VGA I get: IMG_1724.jpg The light lines fli...