{"id":34961,"date":"2021-02-08T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=0c0b5a5c7387481f950978a315e73fe9"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:00:22","slug":"recreating-the-mac-se-logic-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=34961","title":{"rendered":"Recreating the Mac SE Logic Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/02\/08\/recreating-the-mac-se-logic-board\/\">Hack a Day<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: That is _majestic_ work.  \r\nReversed board, found modern drop-in replacements for all but a few parts.\r\nGonna rescue a bunch of battery-damaged SEs.<\/div><p>When [Kai Robinson] found himself faced with the difficult task of saving as many Mac SE&rsquo;s as he possibly could, the logical but daunting answer was to <a href=\"https:\/\/68kmla.org\/forums\/topic\/60059-reverse-engineering-the-macintosh-se-pcb-custom-chips-for-11-reproduction\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recreate the Mac SE logic board<\/a> for machines that would otherwise be scrapped. These machines are over 30 years old and the PRAM battery often leaks, destroying parts and traces. Given that the logic board is a simple through-hole two-layer board, how hard could it be?<\/p>\n<p>The first step was to get some reference photos so [Kai] set to desoldering everything on the board. The list of components and the age of solder made this an arduous task. Then a composite image was produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2013\/11\/15\/recreate-a-pcb-with-a-scanner-and-inkscape\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">merging images together using a scanner and some Inkscape magic<\/a>. Rather than simply putting the pins in the right place and re-routing all the netlists, [Kai] elected instead to do a copy, trace for trace of the original SE board. [Kai] and several others on the forum have been testing the boards and tracking down the last few bugs and kinks in the design. An unconnected pin here and an improperly impedance matched resistor there. Hopefully, soon they&rsquo;ll have Gerbers and design files ready for anyone should they need a new logic board PCB.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that we <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/09\/26\/apples-best-computer-gets-wifi\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love the Macintosh SE<\/a> here at Hackaday. We&rsquo;ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/01\/21\/the-greatest-computer-ever-now-gets-a-new-injection-molded-clear-case\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new custom cases for it<\/a> and now new PCBs for it. It does cause the mind to ponder though and wonder, what&rsquo;s next?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks [Toru173] for sending this one in!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When [Kai Robinson] found himself faced with the difficult task of saving as many Mac SE\u2019s as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=34961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}