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It's been awhile since I owned one, but if the speaker grilles can be easily removed, a soak in warm water + dish or laundry soap ought to be safe. I recently restored a Cambridge Soundworks clock radio with similar grille fabric, and this approach worked wonders.

I've wondered if TAM was actually a design exercise never intended for production. IIRC, the leather used for the palm rest was thin and very soft. Reminded me of the stuff used in the 1980s Maserati Biturbo. I test-drove one, and the upholstery was in tatters, and overall, the car seemed...

Would removing the paper label and applying contact cleaner via the slots in the end cap suffice?

You can repair a few broken traces, and lay down fresh solder mask, but if the pins of the various integrated circuits have suffered significant corrosion as well, there might not be much you can salvage from that board.

I guesstimated my 1989-90 expenditures for that massive Mac II system, and figure it cost about 15K USD when adjusted for inflation :oops: But I was accustomed to offsetting the costs by selling off older stuff while it still had value, so although I liked my Mac Plus-upgraded 512K and had all...

It was good irresponsible fun, and IIRC, this was also around the time I added an Apple CD SC, matching Apple tape drive, audio mixer and a set of speakers: Talk about desktop sprawl!

Fun memories! My last semester of college was about to end, and I was worried that I'd no longer be able to get student pricing on the just-announced Mac II, but I just made it, though there was initially a question as to whether such a high-end machine would be offered to students. Even so, the...

Best not to attempt powering up that old iMac G5 until you replace those capacitors, assuming that they haven't leaked their corrosive guts over everything. For me, the early days of the personal computing revolution were fun! Stuff could be super-expensive, and there were so many cool ideas...

Crazy thing was, said ex-employer was relying on that AS/400, maybe beyond 2010? Only switched to something more modern when HIPAA demanded it. Wasn't so much worried about the AS/400, as IBM still had people on the ground to service it. But the Andrew hardware and software hadn't been supported...

I wouldn't be surprised if those Apple cards were simply rebranded Andrew products, which were available for ISA bus and NuBus. I can't remember the name of the associated software, but my last employer had a couple of the cards installed in a Quadra 950, and it served as a Token Ring > IP...

Is it's creator here? If so, awesome, hope that the switch to injection-molded cases makes it even better. https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/01/pico-mac-nano-tiny-original-macintosh-replica/

Sell as-is for "whatever". Good restored condition, $200+, but you will need to invest more than $200 worth of parts and labor to get it there :p

Good work! Some oddly-shaped photo flash capacitors are still available, but they're often special-order items from Mouser or Digikey, with minimum orders being 1000 pieces. Other sources include AliExpress (can't guarantee that name-brand parts are genuine though), and they can also sometimes...

TBH, I had no idea that anyone was concerned about ozone and particulate emissions until much more recently. I did a search for "printer ozone filter" and came up with a bunch of hits for what looks like the same sort of carbonized foamy material one might buy for home air filters.

I had a similar issue with a G4 iBook, but changing the CCFL tube didn't fix the problem as I had hoped. Perhaps the actual problem was the LCD's laminations were degrading. The very expensive, circa 2007 Leica M8 digital camera's LCD had a similar issue, which has been dubbed "coffee staining".