Coming in just under the wire for #MARCHintosh is the successful recap of my Mac IIci! It was my first time doing surface mount work and it went pretty well. I credit the numerous times I’ve watched @mac84tv and @thisdoesnotcomp demonstrate it on YouTube for not making any major mistakes. Two issues remain - the internal speaker doesn’t work, and the screen output doesn’t always work on first boot. Any tips would be appreciated!

How are the Macs I picked up at VCFMW doing, you might ask? Mixed. I started with the G4 thinking it’d be easier, but I overlooked one teensy thing - I didn’t have an apple keyboard with an eject button to open the disc drive. And then after getting one, the drive refuses to open. I had a sore Apple DVD-ROM drive sitting around (who doesn’t?), so behold this jank just to get an os installed.

I found a @mac84tv, I’ll try to catch up to the others after Macintosh talk.