27 Apr
2007
27 Apr
'07
6:43 p.m.
I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to this benighted piece of junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I can't see that's holding it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using the fragmentation
method instead?
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27 Apr
27 Apr
9:09 p.m.
At 6:43 PM -0700 4/27/07, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to this
benighted piece of junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I can't see that's holding it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using the fragmentation
method instead?
Yes, send it to me! :^)
Zane
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28 Apr
28 Apr
6:50 a.m.
At 6:43 PM -0700 4/27/07, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Second on the queue. Maybe Zane is not home, or too busy :o)
I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to
this benighted piece of
junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I can't see that's holding
it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using the fragmentation
method instead?
Yes, send it to me! :^) 
30 Apr
30 Apr
7:58 a.m.
Rumor has it that Alexandre Souza may have mentioned these words:
I'd be happy to take "third dibs" (thibs?) on it -- remember, I have a
screwless STacy that is otherwise functional... I'd love to have a cache of
spare parts, or a "baseline" system with which to get replacement screws for.
Oh, and it seems you've never had to reassemble a Tandy 200 - getting the
LCD cable back into where it belongs is a licensed, practicing and
overtime-earning PITA!
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
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At 6:43 PM
-0700 4/27/07, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Second on the queue. Maybe Zane is not home, or too busy :o) I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to
this benighted piece of
junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I can't see that's
holding it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using the fragmentation
method instead?
Yes, send it to me! :^)
27 Apr
27 Apr
9:58 p.m.
I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to this
benighted piece of junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I can't see that's holding it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using the fragmentation
method instead?
Well, I put it back together and now the display doesn't work. I'd try to fix
it, but I can't open it.
Unless anyone has any other bright ideas, it's going in the trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
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10:10 p.m.
On 27 Apr 2007 at 21:58, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Unless anyone has any other bright ideas, it's
going in the trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
Golly, Cameron--doesn't it say right there on the unit "No user-
serviceable components inside"? ;-)
Cheers,
Chuck
10:22 p.m.
Unless anyone
has any other bright ideas, it's going in the trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
Golly, Cameron--doesn't it say right there on the unit "No user-
serviceable components inside"? ;-) 
28 Apr
28 Apr
1:02 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
No, it just doesn't say much of anything.
I have never met a machine more impossible to get into for its size.
For your next torture, I mean task, try getting the lid back on a
VAXstation 2000.
Andrew
Unless anyone has any other bright ideas, it's
going in the trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
Golly, Cameron--doesn't it say right there on the unit "No user-
serviceable components inside"? ;-) 
1:07 p.m.
On Apr 28, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Andrew Back wrote:
No, it just doesn't say much of anything.
I have never met a machine more impossible to get into for its size.
For your next torture, I mean task, try getting the lid back on a
VAXstation 2000.
*twitch* *twitch*
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Unless anyone
has any other bright ideas, it's going in the
trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of
crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
Golly, Cameron--doesn't it say right there on the unit "No user-
serviceable components inside"? ;-) 
2:09 p.m.
Golly,
Cameron--doesn't it say right there on the unit "No user-
serviceable components inside"? ;-)
those stickers are usually there for the sole purpose of hiding additional
screws
27 Apr
27 Apr
10:46 p.m.
Cameron, here's some good stuff by someone who apparently knows how:
http://atari.st-katharina-
apotheke.de/home.php?lang=ge&headline=SuperStacy&texte=S_STacy
Unfortunately, it's in German...
Cheers,
Chuck
10:38 p.m.
On 27 Apr 2007 at 21:58, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Well, I put it back together and now the display
doesn't work. I'd try to fix
it, but I can't open it.
Unless anyone has any other bright ideas, it's going in the trash. It's my
bloody money and I'll get my money's worth out of this piece of crap the
Gallagher way. No wonder Atari burned out.
Does this help?
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s=d1b1e810af27ba12ad673fdae5a
534a4&showtopic=80645
At least you have a kindred soul out there...
--Chuck
28 Apr
28 Apr
2:31 a.m.
Have you taken the Atari-Stacy 'sticker' off of the
bottom of the display? There are screws beneath it.
You need to dismantle the display to access the cable,
which will then all further disassembly.
--- Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I am about ready to take my #10 sledgehammer to this
benighted piece of junk.
How in all that is holy do you get it apart? I've
got all the screws out,
got all the snaps up on the lower part and the top
half seems to float off
except for something in the middle of the board I
can't see that's holding it
on. I think it's the cabling to the LCD, but I can't
get the display apart
either! Most of the snaps are off, but I can't undo
the root.
Any suggestions, before I disassemble the unit using
the fragmentation
method instead?
--
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http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
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www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com
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8:59 a.m.
Thanks to Steven Stengel's suggestion, I got it open and fixed the display,
which (as suspected) was just the cable avulsing from the mainboard.
Naturally now the plastic snaps don't match up again and the display makes an
awful groaning noise unless I cinch the whole business together when I open
it.
I can hardly wait to install a new hard drive in this rat trap. (sarcasm)
What was Atari thinking?
On the plus side, I coincidentally found a very nice Mega ST 4, dual monitors,
hard disk and blitter. Perhaps I will retire the STup, er, STacy to a display
piece and use that instead.
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