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The Macintosh Recap Day

Someone has to do this tedious job and also i advise you do not postpone the capacitors replacement.
Macintosh Recap:
- 1 x Macintosh Portable
- 1 x Macintosh SE (battery removed)
- 1 x Macintosh LC520
- 1 x Macintosh Color Classic
Gallery of the Macintosh Recap:
durexForth v1.5.1 (Forth language for Commodore 64)
Forth, the Language.
Forth is a different language. It’s aged and a little weird.
What’s cool about it? It’s a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. At the same time, it easily scales to become a very high-level and domain-specific language, much like Lisp. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in almost every way.
It is a lot more fast, memory effective and powerful. Compared to C, specifically cc65, the story is a little different. It’s hard to make a fair comparison. Theoretically Forth code can be very memory efficient, and it’s possible to make Forth code that is leaner than C code. But it is also true that cc65 code is generally much faster than Forth code.
Download: durexForth v1.5.1 + Manual (1006)
source: csdb.dk
durexForth v1.5.0 (Forth language for Commodore 64)
Forth, the Language.
Forth is a different language. It’s aged and a little weird.
What’s cool about it? It’s a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. At the same time, it easily scales to become a very high-level and domain-specific language, much like Lisp. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in almost every way.
It is a lot more fast, memory effective and powerful. Compared to C, specifically cc65, the story is a little different. It’s hard to make a fair comparison. Theoretically Forth code can be very memory efficient, and it’s possible to make Forth code that is leaner than C code. But it is also true that cc65 code is generally much faster than Forth code.
Download: durexForth v1.5.0 + Manual (1007)
source: csdb.dk
MicroTech – SpaceMaker II
In the Commodore Pets and CBMs, ROM expansion area is available in empty sockets on the main logic board. These sockets are addressed as 4K byte blocks and are used by many of the software packages available for Pet and CBM!.
These include the Commodore Word Processors, the BPI business package, VISICALC from Personal Software, Inc., Rabbit from Eastern House Software, BASIC Programmers TOOLKIT from Palo Alto ICs, Sort from Matric Software, Inc., and many others.
Several of these ROMs are to be installed in the same ROM socket within the Pet. Spacemaker II is a utility device which allows switching of up to four ROMs into any socket from a single board. Since Spacemaker II is jumper programmable for each of its four ROM sockets.
ROM type may be different for each socket. Switching can be done with a side mounted switch or via ROM DRIVER, an accessory device which allows software and keyboard control of ROM selection.
Spacemaker II is also available for changing character sets with Math or Foreign language ROMs available from West River Electronics.
Gallery:
Download: MicroTech - SpaceMaker II Manual (1153)
Batch of repairs in one week (report)

Batch of repairs in one week (report):
- 1 x Amiga 500 (Green screen of death – Replaced 4 x DRAM)
- 1 x Amiga 500+ (Leaked battery acid – Cleaning / Replaced GARY socket)
- 1 x Amiga 600 (Distorted Clipped Saturated audio – Replaced LF347 / Total Recap / Cleaning)
- 2 x Amiga 600 (Total Recap / Cleaning)
- 2 x Amiga 1200 (Total Recap / Cleaning)
- 1 x Texas Instruments PHA-2037 (Missing Pb Component Video Signal – Replaced LM318)
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