Repairing Apple's First Portable Music Player - PowerCD Part 1 - iiiDIY

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In 1993 Apple released their first stand-alone consumer electronics device: a battery powered music player! Sound familiar?

The PowerCD is from the wild "multimedia era", so it can do a little bit of everything -- a CD-ROM drive for your Mac, a CD Audio player for your stereo, and a Kodak Photo CD device for your TV all in one!

Let's take two broken PowerCD's and get them up and running again!

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Chapters:
00:00 What?
00:43 Symptoms
02:23 Disassembly of PowerCD 2
03:46 Cleaning the logic board
05:42 Stealing the motor from PowerCD 1
06:48 Test reassembly of PowerCD 2
07:50 Test boot
08:23 Exterior cleaning and final assembly
08:55 Adding batteries!
09:28 Final test with Audio CD

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