Why will this Macintosh IIci not work, HELP!
This one has been nothing but a struggle but when a MAC IIci came up for sale on RMCs discord for the low price of shipping only, well, I couldn’t pass up an offer like that. What’s the catch?, its suffered extensive battery damage and needs a lot of repair.
But that’s nothing we haven’t done before, the MAC IIci is a great machine so let’s see if I can get it work…
Or that was the plan anyway. We do make some progress in the video but ultimately I can’t get it going but I think it can be fixed, in fact I’m sure of it so I’m asking for your help, if anyone out there knows their way around these machines better than me, please get in touch as I’d love to get it running.
Link to schematics – https://github.com/nickpunt/nubus-se30/blob/master/Schematics/bomarc/Macintosh%20IIci%20Schematic%20(bomarc).pdf
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End music – Modspire by @NaokisRC
Music bed – Lorraine’s Friends and Some Assembly Required by @Momentvm
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:42 A tour around the case
04:37 First look at the insides
09:18 Assessing the damage
13:01 Removal of previous work and components
19:00 Starting the clean up
21:01 Assessing the damage
23:04 Closer look at the capacitor areas
24:36 How many patch wires?
29:17 Repairs
39:48 Thanks @ChrisEdwardsRestoration
40:11 First test
40:39 More damage and second test
41:16 Two weeks later…
42:36 F245s
45:32 Its not that but what’s wrong now!
46:55 One last roll of the dice
48:45 I’m beaten, conclusion and credits
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