Amid the craziness in the world right now due to the latest Corona virus, we are still healthy and OPEN for business. While there are no home consulting or tutoring services offered for now, you are welcome to drop off your Mac for repair.
In accordance with State regulations, masks and social distancing are required.
Moving has been accomplished although there is still a lot of shuffling and organizing yet to do.
Please be patient if it still takes us a few days to locate your items and get them shipped.
Apple Rescue Of Denver is moving!
Please bear with us over the next week or two during this transition. We anticipate getting back to our new normal during the the week of September 13th, but may be as late as the week of the 20th.
Thank you for your patience! Orders placed during this time will be shipped as soon as possible once we are up and running (and items located).
As you may or may not be aware, rescuing these vintage computers is much more a labor of love than anything else. There aren’t ever enough hours in the day, and often not enough space in the shop or storage.
That said, it would be awesome if someone local who also has a passion for the old Apple products or wants to get to know them AND has some regular free time would like to volunteer to help process these computer items.
Contact me or stop by if interested, I would be happy to talk with you.
As of December 1st, 2018, we are now required to collect all applicable local sales tax (yours) in addition to the previously collected state sales tax on anything shipped inside the State of Colorado.
It will be outside the scope of this website to be able to accurately calculate and add that to your purchases. It is also more time than I have or want to spend to calculate all of your local taxes prior to a sale and report them.
There will be no more shipping inside the State of Colorado, effective immediately. Sales here at my shop are always welcome.
I will admit that I have been fortunate until recently which led to being lax about removing PRAM batteries from the computers that come in. Well, it has finally caught up with me and a ROM 3 Apple IIGS.
The alkaline batteries that are in the early compact Macs can and will leak over time – we have all see that in other devices that we use every day. Fortunately, the Battery compartment is exterior on the back of those Macs, so shielding the potential mess from the interior of the computer.
Starting with the Macintosh II series all the way up to the G5 and including the Apple IIGS, most use a 1/2AA 3.6V Lithium battery used to keep our settings and the time and date among other things. While there are many many manufacturers of these batteries, the most urgent ones to find are the red Maxell pictured below. They can and have and do explode! Many of the others may or may not eventually start to leak.
Looking around the internet after the fact, this is a common issue and well documented on the 68mla.org site. Unfortunately, it will take me time to catch up to every Mac and IIGS that I have here in inventory and remove the batteries, so I hope for the best. So many I have already removed are the original batteries dated in the late 80’s.
If you use any of these computers regularly, please just replace the batteries when they are no longer doing their job. For the rest of us that don’t use our treasures very often, or may have them buried in the attic or basement, it is past time to remove these batteries before they destroy our computers.
There are a few Macs that will not boot without a PRAM battery or will show odd symptoms when it needs to be replaced, so that should be one of the first things you check.
By the way! This is also a good time to look at the regular battery on your Portable, PowerBook, iBook, and MacBook model that you may have to make sure that they don’t show signs of swelling.
