People that can competently repair this old stuff are not a common commodity.
In fact, the only one I know that does it on a regular basis lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Tez
Ray seems to have one heckuva rep...
You guys think he could resurrect my old Altos 580?
Does nada - I swapped the mainboard into my otherwise-working Series 5 (same exact mainboard) and still nada.
I'd invest in shipping UPS ground there and back....I paid nothing for the machine.
incidentally, my Series 5 mainboard works in the 580, so the PSU, etc.. is all fine.
The 580 chassis is toast, at least to ship, so I'd send it in the series 5 chassis.
T
I'd take you up on this, but, the shipping may be a little pricey.
What does it weigh compared to, say, a two drive Model 4? I recently shipped one back to a company in Wisconsin after repairing it and it cost about 70 bucks CAD (extremely well packed)
If the numbers look good, PLEASE don't send it by UPS. The company sent me two machines, a 4D which survived and a regular 4 which ended up with the CRT ripped out the mountings, the neck snapped off and the video board snapped off 1/3 of the way up.
The worse thing about the second unit getting trashed was that both of the computers were packed by a UPS store.
In the hundreds of shipments I have made, all over the world, not a single item was damaged upon receipt. I use Canada Post exclusively and, although one package went missing after it crossed the border into the US, USPS found it within an hour and delivered it.
Another package, from the days that I used to sell on Flea-Bay, disappeared after exiting Canada for France (I recall that it was a Kensington side-mount cooling system/power "bar" for the Apple II series). The recipient said it was common for postal employees there to steal things and that he had a working Apple /// he had won disappear off the face of the Earth once.
I have so many claims with UPS (both coming and going) that I just stopped using them at all.