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I'm feeling a profound sense of unease about the world. Reading about the bile and horribleness being unloaded on anyone who isn't a) caucasian, b) male, c) straight cis d) reasonably wealthy is enough to make me want to run screaming back to bed. So I did what (I think*) I always do - I bought another computer. Then felt a bit depressed that I didn't do something worthwhile with my money.
* I might be wrong.

Open firmware

This is one hell of a letter to put in the manual for a computer that is literally internally held together with sticky tape (you'll need to click on it to read, sorry)

Hey! Milan Italy? We are neighbours!

hello, is the Classic II logicboard still available? I am in Austin but travel to Spring sometimes for business, so that might be an option.

Found this photo from 2003. If I had only known about flux

Stormtrooper edition...


Channeling the IIc look.

Would it be wise to preemptively recap a PM7200 logic board ASAP? Nothing's gone bad yet. I'm unsure if this is as urgent as with the woefully leaky, late-80's SMT electrolytics, which seemed to go bad much sooner (and with more of a mess) than later-generation ones. I know the need for new caps is an eventuality, but it may be a while before I can break out the soldering tools again.

A Macintosh and a McIntosh

And so, the battle begins... This beast has parts... LOTS of parts.

I've lost count of the compact macs I've received with upper corners broken during transit.

I was supergluing a cracked corner of a case... the superglue was sitting on the case for about 30 secs when I wiped the excess glue off and noticed brightening. I made a test 'J' next to it, waited 30 secs, wiped it off... Hmm...

BootScreen by Susan Kare

after much messing about I mostly succeeded in performing a polarizer replacement on this 2400c panel

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the soap method @jmacz mentioned was indispensable... highly advise removing the backlight first though...not perfect, but sure beats a crackled smelly vinegar panel

Not Macintosh related but I finally got my IBM ThinkPad 380ED

I'm waiting for my CD-R's to show up and I will install Windows 95 on it (I'm currently doing a temporary Windows 98 SE install for now)

I asked ChatGPT to show me how Mac OS X might have looked if it were designed to run in 24-bit addressing mode.

A good start!

Further testing will be done tomorrow when I can find where the nice radius video card that was on the IIfx went, my LCD really dosen't like syncing to this random toby card I found.........

-> Thule, the period of cosmographie

Managed to ruin the ends of three traces while removing dead mask ROMs, only on the final chip. Everything was going smoothly until the last possible moment. At least the bodge wires will end up snugly pinned beneath the DIP socket, but it'll be weeks before I forgive myself for blemishing such a pretty logic board...

I'm beginning to think there is some ROM issue with my card. I was wondering if you happen to have an EPROM reader/writer? If so, would it be possible to read the data from your working cards ROM and post it here? What also would really help is a decent, well lit, 4k photo of the chip side of a working card. Who knows, maybe my card has a naughty chip in use on it.