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I bought a TI-86 graphing calculator a few weeks ago off of eBay. The screen had some occasional glitches so I searched for a replacement screen. While I didn't find a screen I found a TI-92 graphing calculator for a little over $20. The TI-92 has a 68000 processor running at 10 Mhz and 256 KB...

This was initially my wife's phone for a couple of years.   When her mother's iPhone 4s was having issues we upgraded her to an iPhone 8 Plus. She loved the speed of it compared to the iPhone 4s but it was too big for her to comfortably handle. My wife swapped phones with her and they were...

Yesterday morning I used the MacBook for a while and found out that the fan wasn't spinning after it slowed down to a crawl. Took it apart again last night and found that the fan housing was pushed in on one side, causing the fan to not spin at all. After fixing the fan and putting the MacBook...

Either it was really resilient or I just don't do a good job of vacuuming. :) After removing the keyboard/wrist rest I found the cause of the fan noise - the small piece of foam that covers the two temperature sensor connectors had moved and decided to rest in top of the fan enclosure. After...

I was removing the battery from the MacBook after first bringing the laptop home and a screw fell out from that area.  Not knowing where it came from I wrapped it in blue painter's tape and attached it to the lid. Shortly before swapping bottoms another screw appeared and I taped that one to the...

I bought a replacement bottom case and installed it.  Only took 3+ hours.  Even with making notes as to where every screw went I still had two left... After getting everything back together I powered it on and heard the fan spinning and rubbing against its enclosure.   :O  I get to take it...

Thanks for the heads up! I have an iBook G4 and a Lombard for PowerPC applications, but to be honest it's been years since I have used one of my Macs. The 2 x 2Gb DIMMs from the old Dell laptop worked great.  Currently Lion is installed along with Windows 7 Home Premium via BootCamp.  I'm...

The power supply works and the laptop battery and Mac OS 10.6 is installed. It does run a bit warm though. Given that it still has the original memory and hard drive it probably needs to be taken apart and cleaned out.

I have 2 x 2GB in an older Dell laptop that I want to try. If that doesn't work the memory kits on eBay are pretty cheap. I have ordered a power supply for it that  should be here tomorrow. Can't wait to get it so I can do a proper install of Mac OS 10.6. Will upgrade to 10.7 after that. There...

The blue tape is there to keep a screw that I found when I removed the battery until I figure out where it came from. The laptop on the bottom is a ThinkPad T500 for comparison.

I found a MacBook on Craig's list for $20. Picked it up this morning and it looks like a laptop that cost $20.  :smiley: It's a late 2006 Model with the original 1gb memory and 80GB hard drive with 10.6.8 installed. I'll need to get a power supply for it since it didn't come with one. The...

Considering I don't normally use iOS devices it's an easy mistake to make. :) I thought she had that phone for a long time - apparently not as long as I thought. The main reason I wanted to keep the phone was to become more familiar with a more recent version of iOS.  That way I can be at...

iOS 9 is occasionally sluggish on the phone and is quite different than 4.2.1 on my old iPod touch. 9.3.4 is as high as it Will go.

After my mother-in-law dealt with a flaky iPhone 4 for way too long we finally upgraded her to an iPhone 8 Plus and I got to keep her old phone. No cracks or scratches and is running iOS 9.3.5 Way too tiny for my big fingers. :) I attempted to use it for iTunes but apparently things have...

May have to try this - I had a DVD Combo drive in my iBook G4 1.33ghz 12" and managed to find a SuperDrive from an iBook G4 14".  After the swap it wouldn't mount any discs either. I have no interest at the moment to disassemble it yet again to swap it back right now...

That could probably be said for any computer manufacturer, not just Acer.  I can recall several Dell, HP and Gateway laptops in the past that I have worked on that had issues with the hinges and others that were prone to motherboard failures.  No laptop flambes on this end yet. Now as far as...

The Chromebook has been retired.  It has been too unstable to run reliably for any length of time. The hard drive went to a machine that needed one. I did find a distribution of Chromium OS called CloudReady that works very well on an old Gateway Pentium dual-core laptop with 2GB RAM.  No...

I may have to try AOSP. Even the beta version of Chrome OS is unstable on this little beastie. At this point I'm not too sure what else I can do to get it to work. Target practice is mighty tempting. :)

After having issues with the screen not waking from sleep with 3GB of memory, I removed the 1GB memory stick. It made things worse.  After many random reboots and crashes I have switched it to the beta channel.  So far go good (crossing my fingers)!

The older ones were more expandable than the newer ones.  From the reviews I have read on this one it appeared to be a converted Windows model of sorts.  While it makes it expandable (there is a large panel on the bottom with access to 2 dimm slots and the hard drive) there are some trade-offs...