Also use a low-wattage soldering iron. By such means, you are less likely to ruin the components that get re-used, and less likely to compromise the brand new cells, Click to ex…

Yes, and it is not especially difficult. There are excellent, idiot-proof instructions on the web. My one piece of additional advice would be to used leaded solder, as its melting…

Failing flybacks can occasionally cause the screen to go out of focus too, or slowly shift focus as it warms up.

weird noises, and screen flickering out tho those are the same basic symptoms of flyback to control (analog board in some machines) more detail please

What are some of the signs of a flyback transformer that is bad or going bad?

The idiot being me, of course I have a 2100 sitting around, and the battery is just about toast. I'd like to get my hands on the AA battery tray, but Newton bits & pie…

Pluses have a beige case, though. How can they yellow? I thought the platinum colored Macs were the ones with yellowing issues. Click to expand... They just turn "more" yellow.…

Pluses have a beige case, though. How can they yellow? I thought the platinum colored Macs were the ones with yellowing issues.

Such lists are easily obtained from magazine archives on Nexis. However, they should not be taken too literally. They tend to be aggregations of press releases, and actual products…

In that case, please pardon my misinterpretation of your statement. It's all idle academic speculation anyway. :b&w:

Be really interesting if it could be made to the look like the mac os completely with highlight on click for the navigation buttons or even drop down menus. Would need rounded/beve…

I have Never seen the silvery coating in any 128,512, Ke, or Plus... Click to expand... Neither have I. My eyes have only see the matte gray coating that feels slightly rough …

I think most of them have the coating, even as far back as the 128k. My 128k has it, I just assumed they all did. Here's a photo of the guts of a 128k, with the coating:http://kcom…

Apple's devious plan for incorporating binary emulation seamlessly into the existing Mac OS was very clever, but it also meant they wasted loads of effort making a new CPU act like…

I started scraping away the coating using a putty knife. Seems to work pretty well, although I will have to finish it up with sandpaper. Will post results when I finish.

One thing I will take issue with is (emphasis mine) Apple's devious plan for incorporating binary emulation seamlessly into the existing Mac OS was very clever, but it als…

I don't have any major disagreement with any of those points (except one point below); they're certainly well-taken, and PReP/CHRP certainly had much squandered potential. My main …

I can't comment on the '060 (though I do like ColdFires), but remember that there were *three* people in the AIM alliance, not just Apple and Motorola. That big blue gorilla was co…

The point about the comparison between the m68060 and the Pentium is that the m68060 would've scaled quite well had Motorola had reason to continue improving it (that is, if Apple …

I can't comment on the '060 (though I do like ColdFires), but remember that there were *three* people in the AIM alliance, not just Apple and Motorola. That big blue gorilla was co…

Remember, the m68060 was able to execute more average instructions per clock than the Pentium in spite of having a 32 bit bus as compared with the Pentium's 64 bit bus and in gener…

We're not talking about the latest versions that are still being made today, though. We are talking about the chips that were actually produced back when the design was new and tho…

... how do you think they replaced the functionality of those components? They had to go off chip to get that functionality back or else who would have any use for a crippled EC or…

We're not talking about the latest versions that are still being made today, though. We are talking about the chips that were actually produced back when the design was new and tho…

In the States, it is also more common to see the LC versions show up on the market. While I feel this is from the greater number of LCs sold to schools, it could also be that some …