[HN Gopher] The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992)
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The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992)
Author : ecliptik
Score : 59 points
Date : 2021-08-07 07:16 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| johnklos wrote:
| This is an awesome resource for anyone who finds and wants to fix
| up a classic Macintosh.
| ecliptik wrote:
| I found this last night after my recently re-capped Macintosh
| 512Ke started flup-flup-flup on boot. I found some old forum
| posts about re-soldering the flyback transformer but that
| didn't fix it.
|
| One of the forum posts had a link to The Dead Mac Scrolls and
| after reading the section on tuning the voltage lower, powered
| it up and Happy Mac Sound and booted right up.
|
| _Approximate cost of repairing it yourself: 15 min._
| eddieh wrote:
| I downloaded a copy to keep handy, but my 30 year old Macintosh
| still works and has never needed to be repaired. It has
| survived 8 or 9 major moves and 3 different climates.
| datalus wrote:
| I like how this book makes the justification for just fixing it
| yourself.
| atomashpolskiy wrote:
| Approximate dealer repair cost:
|
| 1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33
|
| Holy moly, that's a lot
| benjaminpv wrote:
| It feels like it's inevitable that the kind of person that would
| enjoy this kind of thing would already know about this, but if
| repairing classic Macs is something that appeals to you and you
| aren't already subbed to Adrian Black's channel(s), go check out
| his Repairathon series[1].
|
| [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKD65I86XGQ
| timnetworks wrote:
| Meanwhile, I'm unable to get some people to find the Start button
| at the bottom-left side of the screen.
| badsectoracula wrote:
| Well, since Vista it doesn't stay "Start" anywhere anymore :-P
|
| I wonder why is it even called the "start menu" nowadays
| instead of "window menu" or something like that (considering
| the icon).
|
| (though even that might not always work considering the
| stylization... my aunt uses some slang that basically
| translates to "little boxes", which took me a LONG time to
| understand what she was talking about when i was trying to help
| with her Win10 laptop through phone :-P)
| datalus wrote:
| You start/launch applications from the menu? That's my guess.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| And you also shut down from it... I suppose calling it the
| Stop Menu didn't seem like a good idea, though. Making it
| the Windows logo does make it more similar to macOS and its
| Apple Menu (which does less and less over time, the
| opposite of Windows, ironically). I vaguely remember Gnome
| used the G 'foot' symbol for its main menu, though it
| doesn't scale down very well, so giving up on that was
| probably wise. For all three I tend to just to invoke their
| launcher with the meta key (meta-space for Spotlight on the
| Mac, though I like Albert personally) and type what I want
| instead of digging around in the menu, these days.
| zeroimpl wrote:
| You start the shut down process from it...
| [deleted]
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