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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 and completely recapped the power supply with new RS-Components caps and it still doesn't power on. There is about a 10% chance that on the PSU, I got...

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 several things and it still won't read a (tested) disks. I've greased the corkscrew that drives the magnetic heads(s) backwards and forwards across the disk -...

Hi Everyone I've been tearing my hair out over this -virtually worthless- 486SX machine. It's a relatively boring laptop but I just wanted to get it working because it has such a lovely keyboard. It was originally cursed with a Conner CP30104H 3.5" IDE hard drive which has totally failed - not...

Hi Everyone I've got a Gridcase 286 laptop and both the hard drive and the FDD are faulty. It's a really cool design machine but they've essentially integrated fairly standard looking IDE and floppy drives directly onto a flat riser board with no cables between them. Which makes it really hard...

Hi Everyone I've lusted over the look of a Sharp MZ-80B for a while now and managed to pick up a RIFA-blown example from what looks like the back of someone's shed. I am in the process of repair but I desperately would like something to play on it. Does anyone know anyone or any reasonably...

Hi All I've got a bunch of Compaq Portable III and 386 machines which I am trying to make usable again. It seems that the III was a 286 which tended to come with 5.25" floppy drives and a hard disk. The 386 came later with a bigger hard disk and usually a 720k 3.5" floppy. The machines do not...

I've recapped both the analogue board and the logic board. The logic board tests good in other machines. Does anyone know why my machine does this constant reboot thing? Classic II on YouTube

Imported from Japan but without a replacement screen I'm treating it as a loss. The value is in the folding lid/table mechanism, really nice case, HDD with original installation stuff on there, the original IBM stylus and the innards. It powers on but does not boot, even to an external display...

Hi Everyone I was repairing a 770 DC board and there are two electrolytic capacitors on there and for some unknown reason, IBM decided to dab some white paste stuff on them. So after desoldering the legs, pulling one off pulled apart this small black 'bit' that was underneath it, but I can't...

Hi All I am based in Milton Keynes (MK9 4AQ) and I have these 3 Power Mac towers, which I've had stored in my loft for about 5 years. They're each of slightly different specification, as shown in the pictures. When I put them away, they all worked fine, although I haven't yet tested again...

Anyone in the UK interested in buying a Pansonic Toughbook CF-28? I've got about 30 of these in a pile. I've been through all of them and replaced the keyboards and anything I had from spares. They're all P3 600Mhz machines with no drives or power supply, but they're strong, interesting, retro...