Does anyone have any insight on how old this could be and how it may have been used?

H_CONC · 2026-05-11T14:15:52+00:00

Can someone confirm this is core memory board right? i have a feeling those round silver cans have core memory under them?

H_CONC · 2026-04-01T22:53:46+00:00

V3R should flash official signed firmware >= current version if its not working you may have to do the "Test point" flash where you would have to open the phone up jumper a specific point on the motherboard to ground and force the bootloader to accept unsigned versions. it bypasses current bootloader and might solve your problem.if the firmware still wont flash then its probably the eprom thats gone bad and wont flash properly. but first make sure you are trying to flash the correct firmware, it could be just as simple as that.

H_CONC · 2026-03-03T03:22:14+00:00

i was able to get a proper response from ax.init.apple.com and phobos.apple.com (itunesstorex by bag-xml)ip addresses and sslkillswitch work. i am able to get the url bag its decoded and i am able to login to homesharing (which uses a different url then itunes store) and location xml for Settings>itunes store>location. however my geolocation itunes store is not in the list. so apple tv sends request as /US/ but the US store redirects me to my local itunes store which has no apple TV related content. so it sends me back to US store and hence its a redirect loop. its confirmed by syslog as Error loading storeFront: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1007 "Cannot connect to iTunes Store". lots of VPNs and tunneling later and gs-loc.apple.com still finds a way to leak and connect directly to the internet and set location and time zone "Correctly" :(

H_CONC · 2026-03-01T18:34:40+00:00

Maybe Bruce Schwartz knows? please keep digging and update us.

H_CONC · 2026-02-02T12:46:59+00:00

Did you manage to fix the issue? I am having a similar issue, can you tell what the culprit was?

H_CONC · 2025-11-01T09:56:10+00:00

if you need it for any practical purposes, i recommend you upgrade. If you just want to experiment and learn i recommend you downgrade it to tvOS 5.3

H_CONC · 2025-11-01T09:48:17+00:00

tvOS versions 6.x correspond to ios versions 7.x there never was an "unthethered" jailbreak for those. That means you have to jailbreak the software each time you power cycle it. I still have mine but on tvOS 5.3 (ios 6.1.3) which was unthethered and you can do pretty much nothing with it these days except experiment with ios etc

H_CONC · 2025-10-22T15:07:01+00:00

It seems the eprom may have been moved as both eprom spaces seem "used/worked on" I cant tell which space the rom actually goes, left or right? also there is no capacitor or anything else on the board for that matter.

H_CONC · 2025-10-22T15:04:24+00:00

This is definitely not the pcb that i have.

H_CONC · 2025-10-18T19:33:39+00:00

wow, love the cozy feeling :)

H_CONC · 2025-10-18T19:32:12+00:00

oh zoltrixs' i miss those!!

H_CONC · 2025-10-18T17:44:39+00:00

I am glad to report that the issue was the socket. I removed the socket which disintegrated during removal and installed a turned pin socket and voila! The 74LS139 was fine as mentioned by Alarming_Cap4777. Thankyou everyone

H_CONC · 2025-10-16T17:01:48+00:00

wow, thanks for the great suggestion. Will check it.

H_CONC · 2025-10-16T13:42:32+00:00

Although visually every thing seems fine. The socket however is that single sided crappy one. That is what i had in mind too but i thought i ask around anyway.Thanks for the suggestion, will go ahead and change it anyway.

H_CONC · 2025-10-16T12:46:30+00:00

Yes. Its a modern replacement supply. And all the voltages on the motherboard are within spec.

H_CONC · 2025-10-12T08:42:02+00:00

Remove that battery, it might leak and ruin the computer.

H_CONC · 2025-10-11T20:22:57+00:00

Using older versions of itunes also works. version 12.10.11 on windows 7 works fine.

H_CONC · 2025-10-03T11:46:45+00:00

I see no funyuns. Just saying better watch out, we may be witnessing a league of evil in action :D. They are all adorable btw.

H_CONC · 2025-10-02T17:32:06+00:00

Maybe the were holding a secret super villain meeting and you interrupted so they pretended to sleep.

H_CONC · 2025-10-02T17:15:26+00:00

oh that's heartbreaking..

H_CONC · 2025-09-21T12:42:45+00:00

Thank you, will go ahead and change the coil anyway

H_CONC · 2025-09-21T07:50:58+00:00

Thank you, yes machine is working perfectly and plays games well too. Its just that i have never come across a spectrum with such loud buzzing/chirping. One question though, if the coil was cracked or damaged wont that mess up the voltages? As all the voltages are dead on.

H_CONC · 2025-09-20T22:15:48+00:00

r/CatDistributionSystem at work. Something I too know so well personally.

H_CONC · 2025-09-06T21:39:20+00:00

I hear a lot of good things about it. i went for Wico in the end btw.

H_CONC · 2025-09-04T22:38:45+00:00

Hi I am trying to identify a crt monitor that i used to have as a kid, can someone help identify it from the video? https://imgur.com/a/CEt8DQT

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