Apple Macintosh Classic II Restoration - Part 1: Hardware Restoration
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Follow along as we resurrect an Apple Macintosh Classic II and transform it into like new condition for its introduction into the Serial Port museum.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - First power on
02:40 - Overview of hardware
03:27 - Disassembly
05:20 - Logic board
06:19 - Logic board capacitor replacement
07:16 - Ultrasonic cleaning results
07:49 - Analog board capacitor replacement
08:43 - Keyboard restoration
09:00 - Mouse restoration
09:09 - Floppy drive restoration
10:27 - Retrobrite prep
10:55 - Reassembly
12:51 - Outro
Thanks to illformed ( / illformed ) for the disassembly tunes!
#retro #apple #mac #restoration #vintage
It's nice to hear somebody on UA-cam say "solder" rather than "sodder"
The first computer I remember my family owning; I used to complain about the lack of color and a CD-ROM drive
this is very satisfying. I used to recover and fix these in the early 90s. Had 10 perfectly working CCII's upgraded for the internet and used a couple as mail servers.I miss the old irc mac channels. Was so fun.
Thanks for following along! I think you'll like our next video, dropping in the next day.. would love to hear how you ran a mail server on one of these machines . . .
@@theserialport oh god so long ago. It was pretty straight forward but I remember getting the software from the irc channel. And I should correct myself. It was the late 90s and early 2Ks. I had to order the 10/100 ethernet card from ebay. back in the days when ebay wasn't so scammy. Hooked it to my local network and it took a couple days to get them to see the network. Unfortunately it was not plug and play. I remember getting like 20 ethernet cards and 11 were borked but it only cost me 10 dollars. put them in a few mor eclassics but they were too slow for anything but the mail server and an irc chat.
Man we need to be able to see the bubble action cleaning the MB
It’d be interesting to do a video on ultrasonic cleaning.
I was so hoping that the motherboard will get an ultrasonic cleaning and it did! Awesome job! Subscribed! ^^ No on to Part 2 ^.^
Slowmo on the floppy insertion would have been perfect. Also love that you're recording typing on the keyboard and clicking the mouse. Oh and the sound of the ROM insertion.
This channel bout to blow up
I have a Original Boxed complete Classic with fully maxed out recapped Classic II logic, plastic is still nice and bright no need retro brighting but this video is fun to watch
Amazing work. Nicely done. Let's boot up!!
Ahhh memories...
Awesome channel! I'm running out of your content to watch 😢
just watched your two latest videos on the Cobalt RAQ- and i have to say your videos are excellent. I predict this channel will blow up. I am subscribed!
Great job! I just restored a recently-acquired Classic II, retrobrite and all, but didn't replace any caps. You went all in; well done.
Subbed! Always happy to see a new retro computing channel. You showed up on my feed so I hope you gain traction quickly. Hope to see more content!!
Thanks for tuning in!
This is terrific! Can not wait to see it boot up.
Would have loved seeing my old 4004 based computer being restored back to it's original condition. Beautiful board considering it was approaching it's 50 year mark. It now resides in a museum in Germany.
You have to rotate the cover for the mouse ball 180 degrees. The sliding foot should be facing the 6 o'clock position of the mouse, instead of 12, like you had.
loved the video, looking forward to the follow up
thanks! part 2 is now up
Super clean, can't wait for the next video!
I worked on many of these and other early Macs like the Plus, SE, SE30, and the classics. I remember cold solder joints were another failure point in the early Macs. Still have a Classic, SE30 and original and plus Macintoshes with all software and books. Most of my 'collection' still boot up.
Nice music
Oh no, a cliffhanger. Looking forward to part 2. Excellent music!
Thanks! We're excited to bring it back to life very soon
Excellent! ! Really enjoyed this.
I'm in !!! I'm now subscribed and looking forward to your next Video !!!
Can't wait to follow the rest of this build! Just subbed!
Nice job mister !
Perfectly done!
6:20 I'm not sure the right tool to use for this is, but in general I have seen people use desolder guns or a tweezer soldering iron adapter that heats 2 spots at once that would make these caps a lot easier to remove.
Well done….looks great….
nice! +1 sub... keep it going!
Looking forward to boot-up. Will you be installing a Hard Drive emulator?
Low melt solder is fine, but paste isn't really. That stuff almost never fully melts with just an iron (meant for hot air). I've restored like 500 or so macs and amigas in my time and I've seen systems fail from the solder paste oozing and shorting stuff out. Normal solder is what you should use, solder one side then the other side. I can't make out what caps you used for the analog board, but hopefully low esr in the power circuit. I do see a panasonic FC cap in the 470/50 position so that's good. :) Also see what looks like a Nichicon PW in the 220/50 near flyback. Only thing is that solder paste, I don't trust it =)
Amazing video! Maybe should have shown a bit more of the recapping process? Also may I ask what the ultrasonic cleaning is? Btw I just subbed. I’d love to see you get popular.
Thanks for subscribing, glad to have you along. Ultrasonic cleaning is very effective, and safe with small parts- our ultrasonic cleaner was perfectly sized for this job. It uses high frequency sound to cause cavitation in a cleaning liquid.
We wanted to show here the restoration in an entertaining, easy to watch video vs a detailed instructional "how to" video. But we also want to create some more videos where we go deep into the procedures such as ultrasonic cleaning and soldering.
@@theserialport Sounds great! Looking forward to new videos.
There was a bug in the memory slot. :D
Just watched this and it was outstanding! I'd love to see this thing boot up. Do you have a System 7 install lined up? There's something charming about the classic Mac OS, despite it's architectural flaws
Yup, we'll go through a System 7 installation in the next video.
How would you safely discharge the computer?
Looked like you had a literal bug in the memory module slots
Does it boot from ROM? Software? Ms Word, maybe Tetris, Lode runner and Oregon trail.
Where can I get my 512k Mac restored? Any ideas how much it would cost?
great vid but that mointior uhhh.
Why the need for the damned music!?
@sinsari I subbed to because this guy is very informative and his videos cure my anxiety