I really can't think of a more fitting forum to be asking around in.
So in my travels in Japan earlier this month I picked up a rather incomplete X68000 ACE HD for a justified amount (6800 yen). The "incomplete part" when I saw it was the power supply was completely missing. Now that I'm back and I've had a chance to strip it down for cleaning I found out what else it might have issues with.
-The battery had leaked but that has since been removed, cleaned and repaired
-The SASI cabling, drive and bracket are missing
-There's two sockets on the system board marked for an ODD and EVEN rom and they are both empty
I've gained enough experience now that I can totally build a new bracket for a hard disk, plus make new SASI cabling but there's so much about this damn machine that's a complete mystery. There's enough information online to adapt a relatively small and low power ATX power supply to work with the machine but the real questions are those two empty sockets. Every photo I have seen so far of my board shows them empty but there's no other ROM on the board or in the machine at all. I can't find even a hint of their existance. NFGames might have something but their site is such a mess that some pages you can't even access unless you go through google.
So in my travels in Japan earlier this month I picked up a rather incomplete X68000 ACE HD for a justified amount (6800 yen). The "incomplete part" when I saw it was the power supply was completely missing. Now that I'm back and I've had a chance to strip it down for cleaning I found out what else it might have issues with.
-The battery had leaked but that has since been removed, cleaned and repaired
-The SASI cabling, drive and bracket are missing
-There's two sockets on the system board marked for an ODD and EVEN rom and they are both empty
I've gained enough experience now that I can totally build a new bracket for a hard disk, plus make new SASI cabling but there's so much about this damn machine that's a complete mystery. There's enough information online to adapt a relatively small and low power ATX power supply to work with the machine but the real questions are those two empty sockets. Every photo I have seen so far of my board shows them empty but there's no other ROM on the board or in the machine at all. I can't find even a hint of their existance. NFGames might have something but their site is such a mess that some pages you can't even access unless you go through google.
<-------- A very happy forum member.