[HN Gopher] Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy
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       Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy
        
       Author : goldenskye
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-01-05 02:26 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
        
       | notarealllama wrote:
       | Nice article, basically a teardown guide, lots of details.
       | 
       | Portable electronics have come a long way. People kvetch about
       | glued phone components but hey, better than exposed parts
       | shorting out against the case!
        
       | jgrahamc wrote:
       | Interesting story just wished the author had skipped this
       | metaphor: " _and the entire laptop is an uneasy sandwich held
       | together by a small set of screws in plastic races that all strip
       | quicker than at a Hugh Hefner birthday party. So why do we
       | tolerate this very bad, bad, bad, bad girl?_ "
        
       | nxobject wrote:
       | Ah, yes, brittle plastics from the late 80s and early 90s :)
       | PowerBook collectors are really familiar with this, but with
       | STacys and their assembly I'm not sure I would have had any
       | patience!
        
       | johnklos wrote:
       | I was anxious the whole way through. I bet it's both wonderful
       | and nerve-racking to own a piece of history like this.
        
       | outofmyshed wrote:
       | I used a Stacy in a MIDI setup at college, whereas I had a
       | standard 520STFM at home. They were pretty rare at the time even
       | in the UK where the ST was relatively popular for a few years. I
       | never dreamed of trying to take it anywhere - way too cumbersome.
       | 
       | A couple of years later someone showed me a PowerBook and that
       | was that.
        
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