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Hard to argue with the notion that some very poor mechanical design solutions went into these systems, but on, they are still such great examples of classic Apple products. I didn't realize though that the hinges themselves are so stiff. Logic says they have to be to support the display, but it...

This is the offending cable.... It was of course tucked under that hinge part and through - just above the hinge pivot. Pretty sure it was cracked at least partly across from the right, and though my eyesight isn't so good these days, it looks like there was a tear at the right edge. It was...

It's a very complex issue, certainly, and I'll admit that I have serious problems with some of your posts simply because I can't follow the thought pattern in such an unstructured commentary - and particularly when I'd guess you come at it from a very different angle than I do, so your starting...

I tried one of these in my PDQ: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SK4G7RP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It didn't work, after multiple attempts, but works nicely in my Lombard. I tried one of these...

Oh, yes I'll dig it back out of my put-it-there-to-forget-about-it space, but the the cable just looks snapped straight across. I'd look for a parts machine, but I'm getting wearing of the junk!

I think I discovered the reason my 180c screen was flickering. Unfortunately. Having taken the front panel off the screen in order to repair the hinges - the plastics of which were in dire condition - the orange ribbon cable for the display fell apart at a crease across it where it had rested...

I will bow out of any further part of this, not least because the sheer torrent of the above post is such that I have no hope of working out if I agree with it or not. Likely not, I suspect, but I'm more comfortable with a discussion rather than a barrage.

The explanation is in itself quite simple: Computers were not true mass-market objects for years, and were thus the province of specialist developers and manufacturers producing products for a limited audience of users with commonly fairly specific things to do. As they became more widely...

Not sure I'm seeing that. This is a screenshot of the 7.5.3 Date & Time clock options pane from my M1 iMac... and I don't see it there.

Apart from the melted rubber feet, it really shows no sign of age at all. For 25 years or so, I was expecting creaky hinges, loose keyboard, rickety casing, and some signs of corrosion, but I have HP laptops around the office bought in 2020 that look and feel worse. It is a remarkable system...

Thanks! I'll watch that video shortly, because that should help make more sense out of the service manual, which isn't the easiest to follow - and that guy is pretty good. I won't need a particularly big RAM upgrade, so likely no larger than maybe 32Mb. Even then, it runs reasonably well as it...

It is a beautifully built system, and shows few of the common signs of laptops from that era. I'm yet to actually get it into use, so I don't know how cramped the keyboard is for my needs, but the display is of course excellent, and it is remarkably responsive.... except not 'remarkably' really...

This one I didn't mean to buy, but I got too irked by a bidder on eBay to realize I'd bid more than I intended. Serves me right, but barely 24 hours later, this arrived.... I have never seen one of these before, and barely heard anything about them. A PowerBook 2400c/180, which aside from...

When the client is first opened, it pops up a 'file open' dialog, with no indicator of what to select. In my case, my 630 is set to use the Documents folder by default, so the open dialog went there, not the First Class folder. It wasn't hard to figure out what it was looking for when I went...

Ah, thanks! By coincidence I was just watching a 145B fix by This Does Not Compute on YouTube and he used Loctite Super Glue Plastics Bonding System, so I'll consider that too, since it looks thin and bonds fairly quickly. So either that or the JB Weld. I had planned to do this over the...

Not quite as easy as the instructions suggested it ought to be - but I registered and I'm in.... I think! Last time I used First Class was as an admin back in University for the Sociology department. I recall nothing at all about it!

First thought is that since a large proportion of all the electronics we all buy these days originates with Chinese manufacturers, clearly being from China doesn't mean the product is inferior or even hazardous. Suggesting otherwise seems a bit 20th century in this day and age. Secondly, there...

I'm not familiar with the Centris 650, but I do use a Performa 630CD every day, so while some hardware details may be different, many of the principles will be the same. My 630 has an Ethernet card in its COM slot, and is connected to my network. I use a static IP, and Fetch 4 (an FTP client)...

I have just received the two 3D printed hinge mounts to repair my 180c hinges which are both broken, but I'm unsure what glue to use to fix them in place. I have seen mention of two possibles: JB Weld and Loctite Plastic Bonder, but wondered what others have used and found to work in this...

Ah yes, I was quite satisfied with my 1400cs passive until I got a 1400c.... when I fired that up, I was quite shocked how much better the active panel was.