TI Microexplorer Mac II on ebay

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Tofu" <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 11:16 PM Subject: Re: TI Microexplorer Mac II on ebay "C: Why would you want 800k drives? The 1.44 mb superdrives read all the old formats. Video cards aren't that uncommon (had a few, but somebody tossed a bunch of my stuff out). SCSC h/d's are easy enough to find. Good to hear I'll be able to bring my old IIx and IIcx back to life. Just capacitors, and big electrolytics I think too." The Mac II can only use 800K drives, you need a IIx or newer for Superdrives. While I have stacks of Nubus cards and SCSI drives most people don't, finding them now is much harder (or more expensive) then it was for me 10 years ago. Reworking the old Aluminum metal can capacitors will revive a system IF the leaking goo hasn't destroyed anything on the board. I have a dead 840AV that has other issues then just capacitors, but have fixed many other systems that didn't have other damage. P.S. The ROM SIMM on a IIx might need removed and cleaned if the machine doesn't boot (after you replace the batteries and capacitors as needed).