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Been awhile but, do you have a link to the part? I just melted the switch trying to desolder it from the LC I I'm recapping.

This seems to happen a lot in Japan. They call this phenomenon of polarizers splitting from the screen the "vinegar syndrome," because of the smell it gives off: It seems like high storage temperatures and humidity make it happen faster, and it's proposed that storing the machines with the...

Awesome! Thank you for providing that.

I did a little bit of work on this one when it first came up, and we discussed in private what I had looked into. I was going to comment earlier but then the forums were down. After noticing that the Unarchiver puked on the DoveEthernetkaart.sit file, I wrote my own quickie implementation of a...

Lucky find. I don't think I've ever seen a computer of any kind at my local Goodwill, but they did have a pile of really cool 1980s computer science textbooks once.

Sounds like some pretty interesting stuff. You should consider uploading the images to archive.org as I know they are interested in growing their collection of early Mac floppy images. ROM maps could be some kind of table that explains where things are in the ROM's memory layout, probably not...

I recently picked up my second Color Classic (to perhaps serve as a parts source for the working one I already possess, which has an ugly screen discoloration at the top-left and which doesn't seem to be degaussing). I put in a new PRAM battery as the machine was missing one, assuming that was...

I have one of the old scripters' guides around here, but offhand I remember that HyperTalk has some basic file I/O that you could use to write your own file copier. I don't remember if there's any way to enumerate the contents of a folder, which you'd obviously need to move/copy that folder's...