Apple won’t repair this, so I have to! (featuring @The8BitGuy )

This whole experience brings back memories. I had the upgrade to this the Macintosh Plus with a whopping 1 meg of ram. Ah the curse or the TORX screws, that's something i'm glad to forget. Back in the day I was an engineering major. So working with PC and Macs was never easy but understanable. So to upgrade the memory I had to take it apart also. Yes don't touch the charged CTR gun in front of you. Oh and watch out for the OPEN power supply on the side too. After all that I had to disconnect the mainboard and find a specfic resistor and clip it so that it ould accept the new memory. All that for it to go from 1 meg to 1.5 meg of ram. Then I got to really styling when I purchased my SCSI external hard drive. NO MORE DISK DANCING FOR ME! Now I had an 80MB (not GB) disk. Was king of the world back then. Good times, good times.

Man, back in the 80s, Apple would've called this computer the Mac Pocket 😂

I have repaired several dozen of the original Mac's from Mac512K up to the Last of the "classic" OS 9.2 G4 MDD's
I still run a Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) Early 2001 as an OS9 file Server, I also use the 15" iMac (Flat Panel) Early 2003 for all my old OS9 games and other software. I have about 1.5TB of the old OS9 software I think about all of the "Abandonware" and shareware that is still out there on the web for free. About 30/40 of the original disks of my purchased software from back in the day. I have inside the old iMac flat panel a 230gb 2.5" laptop HD in lieu of the 3.5" disk drive (makes for less heat). I also use on a fireware line a 350GB drive and a USB 1TB drive and run OS9 and/or boot up with OS X 10.4 (I have a neat little program that allows OS X to read and write to large disks just cant boot from them. I have done a lot of cleaning, never have done any retro-brightening. Fun watching you. I also subscribe to 8bit guy. Started back when Mac was at OS 4.0 and am still using Macintosh's latest macOS 14.x Sonomaon my laptop but that's another story I don't repair these new Mac's only the classics.

There is a little hole next to the drive that a paper clip can be inserted into to eject the disk.

What fun!
I have an old PowerBook 520 "Blackbird" that my wife found on eBay. It needed some repair so she found another one for parts.
It's the model we always wanted because the design was so groundbreaking at the time and it could hold TWO batteries for extended time away from a plug. It was also the very first laptop with a trackpad!
I got it to play with the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop to learn C++.
This is not the color version of this laptop, that would be the 540. I just needed it for text so color wasn't so important. It kinda harkens back to the original Macintosh, except this one has 16 shades of gray instead of the simple binary black and white of the original screen.
I haven't done anything with it for more than 12 years, but you've encouraged me to get it out and see what I need to get it running again.
Thanks! I really enjoyed this one!

Put the broken disk drive and take it to Apple to see the there reactions

I was given a 128k that had the error screen up with the little dying Mac on screen. This was back in the early 90s. I did lots of research at the library and interlibrary loans and found out the error identified which chip was bad. I desoldered the memory chip and soldered in a socket. I then put replacement in and that was working up until someone threw it away at my parents house before my mom went to a home.

the oldest computer Linus's place has ever seen (maybe older)

This is why you invite Adrain's Digital Basement to the call.
EDIT: I have a couple old Atari STs that I've dropped and damaged the floppy controller, also a couple STEs and an Amiga 2000 board that I'm fixing from parts. One STE is almost complete save for the floppy drive, and what I've diagnosed as a bad processor (and it's a QFP, so that'll be fun).

Oh it's a 512!

512k! So much ram. Amazing.

Tanner likes the tanned plastic 👍🏽

You can use newer 1.44mb floppies, the magnetic media is totally backwards compatible. If they don’t work initially, tape over the square hole on the left side and try again.

That looks so nice! Did very good job should do a reaction video where you take it to a apple store and show them that macintosh lol.

One is a 400k machine and the other is probably an 800k disk drive.

Channel rename to an actuall MAC Address with manufacturer being if any linus stuff was made being that or use a apple id then zip code

Awesome! How did you fix the floppy “misalignment“ issue?

I'd take a hammer to it in rage

I repaired these 128/512K and SEs, etc. by the hundreds, including the floppy drives: started doing Mac consulting in the late 80's when I discovered that, for one thing, the power supply ("analog board" they called them) was always failing due to the same small set of parts. These computer had no fans and were cooled by convection, but the parts, such as certain capacitors and a key diode, weren't quite up to the task over the long haul... anyway, Apple wanted $250 to repair them, and I could get the parts for less than $25. Instant biz opp... :) And yeah, over the years, the lithium grease in the floppy drives got gummy.

Well, sometimes you are just lucky... A few months ago I found an old Macintosh Se on the side of the road... Not believing anyone would throw away such a thing, I took it in, thinking I'd probably would need to fix it... Plugged it in, and after making a boot floppy disk for it found that it worked perfectly!