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> rebuilding the power supply

Any links or info on how to do this?

> no one has made them in a very long time, and they're essentially impossible to find

That’s too bad. Do you know any software that actually used them anyway?

Regarding the built in speaker, I have a disk called AppleRock ‘83 that has 4 or 5 sampled songs (Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ZZ Top, etc). Plays through the speaker, no mockingbird. The audio is amazing.

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Mostly it's the Capacitors that go bad. Adrian's Digital Basement has some videos on resurrecting old 8bit apple computers. here's a good playlist to start. He starts talking about the power supply around the 26 min mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkX7rkq_Kk&list=PL4tFqFVNf5...

I bought power supply rebuild kits from Reactive Micro[1] for my IIe and IIgs. I paid a lot more than just recapping the existing power supply, for sure, but it was dead easy to install.

[1] https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/universal-psu-kit/

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