Tar-Stained Classic Complete Restoration - Part 2 - iiiDIY

There's a lot of troubleshooting needed to get this beautiful Classic into full working order! Once it's complete, I can finally give it to my friend for his birthday!

In part one, we discovered electrical issues with the analog board, and now there's a broken floppy drive, dead hard drive, PRAM that won't zap and plenty of other fun challenges ahead!

Check out part 1 here:
   • Salvaging a Tar-Stained Classic - Mac...  

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro and Analog Board Repair
01:53 Testing Analog Board
02:12 Apple Keyboard II Cleanup
04:53 Cleaning the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse
05:20 Attempting ROM Boot
06:15 Startup Troubleshooting
08:50 Testing Floppy Drive
09:14 THE HORROR
09:34 Floppy Service & Repair
14:35 Reassembly & Floppy Testing
14:57 A Downward Spiral
16:50 Floppy Eject & Sponsor
17:25 Reassembly
17:58 Final Test

You can also find Branchus Creations' excellent floppy tutorial here:    • Repairing and Restoring a Vintage Mac...  

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