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  1. PB145B

    PB145B’s finds

    Thanks for the info! I'm glad to hear you don't think they aren't too hard to service. I am surprised that you think it's easier than the older ones, but then again I've never had one so I couldn't say for sure. The great thing about the older design with magnets in my opinion is that you don't...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Yes, I agree. It's not to say they didn't make anything good afterwards, because they did, but that's definitely the "golden age." While we're on that subject, I will say the 2012 to 2020 iMacs have been growing on me lately. The decision to go from magnets to adhesive to hold the glass on was...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Yes, very sad. 100% agree! For "modern" laptop designs, the first-gen unibody is definitely one of the greatest of all time. Honestly they are easier to take apart than a lot of older laptops I've dealt with! Pretty much everything Apple was making around that time was top-notch. The first gen...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Nice! Yeah, it's crazy how easy these first-gen unibodies are to service. I only had to reference a take apart guide once during the restoration/rebuild of this 2010. I like the retina models a lot too, though I do wish the memory was socketed. Soldering the SSD in on the 2016 and later (I...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Yes, they are some of the best MacBooks ever made in my opinion because of their of build quality and serviceability. I'd love to get a mid-2012 13" or 15" (or both!) at some point.
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    PB145B’s finds

    I have wanted a 15" first-gen unibody MacBook Pro for a while now, and I finally have one! It's a mid 2010 model I built from two different units. This one was originally a 2.4 i5, but It now has a 2.66 i7 board in it. It also had a non working aftermarket battery which has been replaced with...
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    PB145B’s finds

    I ended up installing High Sierra on the Mid 2009 iMac with @dosdude1's patcher. Very happy with how it runs! I swear I think it runs even better than El Capitan did on here. Only issue is every time I boot the computer up it starts with the brightness all the way down and I have to turn it back...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Wow, that's crazy! I really didn't think that was possible. The Early 2009 is very similar to the Mid 2009. The mid 2009 is a slightly cost and feature reduced version of the early 2009 for the educational market. Would be fun to see it run on here, but I don't think it'd be much fun to use...
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    PB145B’s finds

    Hah, I'm not even sure that's possible on a C2D! Probably not. I think High Sierra would do decent enough though, as long as there aren't too many weird glitches or hardware incompatibilities.
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    PB145B’s finds

    Crazy that's it's been almost two years since I last posted here! I haven't went anywhere though. Still loving my vintage computers (Macs and PCs). I did find this nice little Mid 2009 20" iMac recently at Goodwill. Was untested but ended up working fine! I had wanted one of these early...
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    Newtpaint FULL version?

    No idea, but I had an extremely hard time finding much information about it. I didn’t see a place where it could even be purchased either. I am extremely grateful that @aladds shared a copy of it though!
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    PB145B’s finds

    Wow, it’s been over a year since I’ve posted here! I’ve finally gotten a MessagePad running NOS 2.0, something I’ve been looking hard for for the last month or so. I recently pulled my MessagePad 100 back out and it has inspired me to start collecting more Newtons. I found this really clean...
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    Newtpaint FULL version?

    The disk image in that zip file contained the full version! Thank you very much! My MP120 is very happy now. 😄
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    Newtpaint FULL version?

    Will give them a try! Thanks!
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    Newtpaint FULL version?

    Does anyone know where the full version of Newtpaint can be had? The demo is readily available, but it’s pretty useless since it expires after a while. Thanks!
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    View image files on Newton OS 2.0?

    What’s the best/easiest method for viewing image files (bmp, gif, etc) on Newton OS 2.0 (not 2.1) devices? I can’t really find a straightforward way to do it and I think I could save myself some time by asking here. I found a media viewer (forget the name) but it seems to require several other...
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    Flyback opinions wanted

    I quick search in the completed ebay listing shows two, one that sold for $29.99 and another for $49.95, so that’s probably the realistic going prices. $49.95 certainly isn’t “cheap,” though $29.99 seems like a good deal. As @dkjones96 said, just keep a look out. You’ll find a deal on one...
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    Flyback opinions wanted

    That’s definitely NOT good. Personally, I’d probably just replace it. Analog boards for the SE and SE/30 aren’t hard to come by, so it might be easiest to get a whole extra analog board to harvest a flyback from.
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    Walkmac

    That’s really cool! I think I remember reading about these years ago. As for the display, it’s definitely a plasma. The electroluminescent displays were a very bright yellow, while plasmas were always orange. For example, the DynaMac used an electroluminescent display.
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    Goofy Line on PowerBook 180c Display

    Yeah, that “shadowing” on an active matrix display is a classic symptom of bad caps. That display should be 100% fine once recapped. Another symptom sometimes is the display looking washed-out until the unit warms up (I have seen this on some old Compaqs before).
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