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Hello fellow vintage Mac enthusiasts, Kay Koba here... One of the best quality-of-life features of MacBong! is its support for a mini wireless keypad. When your test bench is cluttered with logic boards, multi-meters, and soldering irons, you don't want a massive keyboard taking up space. Having a tiny keypad right next to your project to test and boot systems is an absolute game-changer. However, there is a massive catch if you are looking to source one of these keypads your

We have received several inquiries from builders stating that their newly assembled ROM-inator Resurrections fails to boot, even though the assembly appears structurally sound. In approximately 90% or more of these cases, the root cause is not a defective ROM-inator PCB or a soldering error, but rather a mechanical contact failure inside the vintage ROM socket on the host logic board. It is always disheartening to see posts from builders who feel discouraged when their kits d

When you look at the VGA adapters available for vintage Macintosh computers, you’ll notice that most of them are packed with DIP switches. Back in the CRT monitor era, this made sense... those switches allowed for maximum compatibility across a wide range of displays. But lose the manual, and it quickly becomes impossible to tell which switch does what. Today, almost everyone uses LCD displays. That made me wonder why not simplify this overly complicated, now somewhat nonsens

Some time ago, I was working on the Super Wh-IWM Swapper (PLCC44 to DIP28 SWIM adapter) . However, due to the shortage of SWIM chips (343S-0061-A, 344S-0061-A), and the fact that even when available they were extremely expensive, the project stalled. In reality, the only practical option was to salvage SWIM chips from logic boards damaged by battery bombed and corrosion. In a way, this makes sense. The SWIM chips used from the Macintosh SE/30 through the Macintosh IIsi gener