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I appreciate your worry. I drilled a huge circular hole in the top of the case and put the machine outside the 5th floor window to...

I got a small ATX power supply with it's newer 24-pin ATX adaptor and bought an adaptor to downsize it's power connector to the older...

Hi I definitely got the polarity the right way around on all the caps. I checked before and after and it's clearly marked on the PCB...

Hey Everyone I bought an FM Towns II-HR which was powering up fine and then just decided not to do anything. I disassembled the machine...

Sorry for trying to warn everyone that at least one of those caps is known to be poorly manufactured and very close to a bunch of tiny...

Cool. Why bother to diffuse a time bomb that hasn't gone off?

Hi everyone. I'm still trying to source a replacement 'graphyc-1' daughterboard - is this board found in the MZ-80A or any other of the...

You're looking at the wrong caps. You have to completely remove the video card from the system (which means removing the ISA cards and...

Caps on the video board: C1 10uf 50v C3 47uf 25v C4 10uf 25v C6 22uf 25v All standard, through-hole electrolytics.

Sorry, I was in a stress because time was passing and I only meant to do the floppy and then was in a hurry going by a few ideas given...

Ok so word of warning to anyone with a P70. I originally only had a fault with my floppy drive, which was fixed by replacing the 5...

I'm about to restore a P70. I've got a couple of them but one of them is distinctly unloved so I'm going to start next week. I've...

RPM did seem slow, although I don't know how fast it should be. I'll google ImageDisk.... Thanks

Hi Everyone The Compaq Portable III has a slimline canon 5.25" 1.2Mb floppy disk drive. I have one that doesn't work and I've checked...

Hi Everyone I've been tearing my hair out over this -virtually worthless- 486SX machine. It's a relatively boring laptop but I just...