Is the cooling plate touching the top of the cpu?, I would open it up and see what there is to see (unless you have issues doing that).

Very well written. Enjoy that machine.

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O Click to expand.…

Hi, Thanks JRL; I've actually been watching those for a while now. But from my research about these drives, I found that they will not work on my Macintosh 512k without speci…

x2 cheap compatible 800k drives: Linky

The Goodwill here rarely sells computers. However, one time I went there, they had tons and tons of them. Two Sun Ultra 5s, ~15 PCs, and ~5 laptops (including a heavily upgraded P…

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O Click to expand.…

Very nice. Its always really nice to have a machine like that, that you have such fond memories of, come full-circle and be gifted to you.

. . . recoupment? I'm not sure what to call my latest . . . re-acquisition! When I was in Philly, my (very wonderful) ex-wife brought down a few boxes of goodies. My Bell &a…

Most thrift stores for some reason have this aversion to computers. Goodwill, while not serving our particular interests well (crushing old Macs), is actually the only store I've …

It arrived today and It works, battery holds some form of a charge and it's in nice condition. :O And it's time for some Nixification. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! Already have …

Very nice. Congrats!

Seems like a good deal to me, little if any yellowing.

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O Click to expand.…

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O Click to expand.…

I have never seen an actual computer at the Goodwill here in Ohio, just keyboards, printers, scanners, monitors, and some cards.

Nice haul. The Mac looks like its in good condition, with no yellowing. Looks like it comes with some good accessories too...are those game controllers ADB? :O

I talked to a lady at my local Goodwill today...She said unless the computer is brand new, the hard drive is taken out, the parts are stripped and sold off...So there's really zero…

NICE! :O

I have never seen a Clearance Center. They operate "Clothing Stores" and stores called "ComputerWorks" around here, but there may be a large repository of donated items that isn't…

splotchy outcome on some projects Click to expand... My 3) When using the gel form... addresses that. And if you use the liquid form with 3% H202, you won't ever have splotchi…

Well, I just had my week made. I was out this evening, when I hadn't planned on being out at all and was kind of not wanting to drive places. I happened to be driving past an old p…

Eh, I think I'm actually going to take a chance with Debian (maybe NetBSD), I heard some bad things about Ubuntu regarding updating. But I would like to know whether to use lenny, …

2 things have kept me from using retro bright 1) the specialty H202 2) the splotchy outcome on some projects #2 can be dealt with by keeping on top of things and using a less st…

For the skeptics and hold-outs... CAN RETROBRIGHT REALLY MAKE PLASTICS BRITTLE? Let's think about it logically. How can cleaning the surface (0.1mm worth?) of a piece of plastic…