I'm not really an Apple product fan. At least not modern day Apple. Their phones? Eh. Their tablets? Eh. Their computers..? Eh, but their vintage computers, well, that's another story.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, I was fascinated by personal computers after seeing the film WarGames. My school had them. My mother's job had them. A friend of my father even had an Apple II at his small business. I wanted to get my hands on any & all computers then, but Apple probably stood out because they were polished looking products compared to something from Radio Shack or Texas Instruments.
As an adult, I collect vintage computers, but I feel like my computer collection would be a joke if I didn't have an original Apple Macintosh. I was on the look out for a 128K model, but I came across a 512K model for a price I couldn't pass up. Well, after a few months the display started acting up. It sometimes comes on, sometimes not. Computer appeared to be fine but the display was screwy. I searched for help online and found some silly advice that says to hit the Macintosh in a very specific place. As stupid as that sounds, it worked, but it was a temporary fixed. Eventually the display stopped working altogether.
I eventually ran into a man on Facebook name Michael Schwertel and he said he could fix it. He works at a place called AllMacs. They repair vintage Apple computers. However, as the name of the business suggests, they are willing to work on & repair a wide variety of Macintosh computers, modern ones too. I sent him the motherboard. He fixed it and mailed it back. I installed it and was pleasantly surprised to see the display working. However, I did something wrong which almost undid all the good Michael/AllMacs did for my poor Macintosh. Watch the video to see what I mean.
