"Market" for old macs?

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:09:07 -0600 Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: There is a better chance of that happening than is acceptable. There is a long thin glass nipple that pokes through the socket connector in the center of that board. A minor bend of the board is enough to snap off said glass nipple. I have opened my compact Macs often enough without it happening, but that's because I am very aware of the problem, having broken the first Mac Plus I opened years ago. I was able to swap out the CRT on that one, it was in the era when spare CRTs were pretty common for $10. They're NOT as common any longer. Best practice is to unplug the board immediately after opening the case (and then stay clear of the glass nipple, which protrudes out). It is NOT one of Apple's best designs. But they were deliberately keeping the layman out of that generation of Mac. (Steve Jobs was rather snide about the 'hacker proof' nature of the original Mac in a radio address I heard him give back at the launch of the Mac- it put me off Apple hardware for a long time) Apparently the priesthood 'allowed inside the case' were properly warned.