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Interesting... it looked like the old Microchip logo.

Can anyone identify this IC? I can't find anything

Pour one out for this one. This might be the worst Toshiba I've ever seen. Poor J3100SS

Who knows what was installed by the previous owner. They wernt done!

Holy shit it works. I somehow managed to fix this thing

Next thing I had to do was fix the ribbon cable because it had been torn

All right well time for experimentation with educated guesses on capacitor values.. let's see if the switcher comes alive

I was hoping maybe the switching power supply circuit could clue me into the values but I can't find the IC on that one either

Yeah this is a basket case.. someone yanked the capacitors off of the panel and I don't know what they were originally, I can't find data anywhere. The panel is a work of art though

Unfortunately it looks like I've inherited someone else's project

Another one fixed! The CRT is a bit weak unfortunately

YouTube video by JJ's Messy Bench Introducing ATAboy! An Open Source IDE USB Host Bridge

Wow... Finally something like this comes out, its nice. having a USB to IDE device that supports vintage drives is handy www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmx...

I feel like though if someone reverse engineers the 3.5" flux dumps, i bet a 5.25 version could be recreated.

Oh yeah that one is nice. I was going through the book for this one, and itll give you tons of output. RPM, Azimuth error, eccentricity errors, etc.

Dime a dozen until you get into laptops where it really matters

Probably. First though youd have to write the flux image to disks with a known good aligned drive.

Accurite Track Test Disk 2 : accurite : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Greaseweasle disk image, program file, and manual for the Accurite Disk Probe floppy drive testing and allignment tool. Write the disk image to disk and run...

Floppy Drive alignment tool just dropped: archive.org/details/accu...

yeah these were only released and sold in japan, I dont believe they ever made a notebook-sized plasma laptop over here except the T4400

Sadly however, the HDD was yanked and its proprietary....

I got yet another cool toy. Toshiba notebook that has a plasma display panel!

This is hilarious 😂

I wish I had the insides. Only the board and power supply was shipped to me for repair

They're fairly common but they also vary so you'd have to look at your specific board unfortunately

Fixed another machine today! An XT clone, branded as an EDS. Needed all the tantalums replaced and RIFAs pulled

Fixed another machine today! An XT clone, branded as an EDS. Needed all the tantalums replaced and RIFAs pulled

Yeah he's just waiting for the right moment. The costs came down from China and it's astronomical, so roi has to be determined

Yep they absolutely are, even when new. I made a mechanical version that works fine and even redesigned it to use a slightly more modern keyswitch, but i sold the design to MacEffects.

This one has a 230 board as well! The original 210 board has a bad SC chip, preventing full system initialization.

Finally fixed the PowerBook Duo! Wouldn't spin the HDD or boot, and turns out a MOSFET actually went open! I haven't encountered that one before, and it wasn't a visible fault either.

If youtube could stop breaking things, that'd be greeeaaaat