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recapping / fiddling with the contrast and brightness usually helps disguise the afterimages. personally... I prefer my passive matrix powerbooks because they don't develop tunnel vision:LOL:

you'll have to build some sort of a test rig thing. at a minimum you'd need to extend the interconnect cable somehow.

sounds like your contrast is wrong. i assume you've fiddled with the slider? powerbook 160s don't have TFT panels, they have DTSN panels

that picture output is characteristic of a pickled infrared filter fortunately you can remove it and adjust the lens a bit to get things to look fine. i haven't tried replacing the filter yet, but i've seen some that might work on aliexpress and such. tl;dr, crack that sucker open, remove...

hell yeah 💪💪💪

yeah you really shouldn't be turning these on until they've been completely cleaned and recapped.

have you replaced any of the mainboard caps? is the "good" power supply recapped?

very odd. why May-cintosh or Mac-tober? Or Mac-tember? or even Mac-uary.... they seem to roll off the tongue better than marchintosh

what's marchintosh? is it related to MARCH at VCF East?

real truthnuke from steeb there. Apple 32 SuperMicro is a bizarre term. this pamphlet seems to be the only marketing thing that used it.

buy whichever one is cheaper and least damaged.

all that software is mac software, so it's actually a Macintosh XL it's worth whatever you sell it for.

maybe this might be useful for your efforts

MRJ FAQ, maybe useful

looked through wayback... 2.2.3 doesn't appear to have been archived unfortunately. that being said, it looks like 2.2.4/2.2.5 will also run on 8.6. apple dev ftp archive here relevant wayback archive

I like this site and love all of you people equally even if the feeling is not always mutual.

definitely a fun little tale I think most people here would very much appreciate anything you're willing to release @Huguenot :)

looks nifty to me