16 Aug
1998
16 Aug
'98
5:32 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
I've got a straight-blade screwdriver that fits.
I've had the Mac open at least three times. I know it's not hard. It's
just that the monitor scares me. Whether it's justified fear or not, I
don't know.
Actually, I HAD to open it up when I first got it home, just to get it to
do anything better than display a garbled "sad mac". The MacSnap memory
board that was clipped onto the chips on the motherboard had cracked
connectors, and removing it allowed the Mac to boot up.
<large snippage>
Great! I
dread opening up the Mac, though, so I hope it's the mouse.
It's not that hard to open up a Mac, given that extra-long Torx driver. Logic probes vary in cost. Radio Shack used to sell a
reasonable one for
\pounds 16.00 in the UK. That's about the cheapest I've seen (although
Greenweld once had one for a tenner), but it's useable on most classic
computers. HP do some nice ones, going up to about $800. But you only
need that sort of instrument if you are seriously into this stuff.
Well I'm glad there are cheap ones. A lot more stuff will be doable once
I get my hands on one of those.
I should keep my eyes peeled for a 'scope, too, but I don't really know
what to look for. Luckily, with classic hardware, I don't need anything
terribly fast.
-tony
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/