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3lectr1c replied to the thread PowerBook 100 & 170 owners.It's no problem. The main reason I took those photos is to get high-quality shots of each machine online for people to reference and... -
3lectr1c replied to the thread PowerBook 100 & 170 owners.Active Matrix became "TFT" in marketing and specsheets over the course of the 90s into the early 2000s, as it became less important to...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread PowerBook 100 & 170 owners.I know for sure that the LCM is directly compatible. I'm not sure about the backlight. @techknight may be able to confirm. With regard...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread PowerBook 100 & 170 owners.A few notes and corrections as I look through the specsheet you linked: - Active Matrix is not a "precursor to TFT" - TFT and Active...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread PowerBook 100 & 170 owners.Please, please, please, please do not ever use ChatGPT for anything even semi-obscure. Everything in retrocomputing counts as "semi...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread Brittle Plastic Writeup.Also worth noting that this doesn't confirm that BFRs are the cause behind plastics yellowing. The Halikan's plastics looked more or...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread Brittle Plastic Writeup.I don't know how widespread BFRs were in plastics - not all plastics with them are marked ABS-FR or something of that nature. You'd need...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread Brittle Plastic Writeup.Oh, those weren't my photos. They're screen grabs from polymatt's video, so they were already like that. I would have probably made them...
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Hi all, I just finished writing a comprehensive article on "brittle plastic disease" for MacDat's knowledge base. Notably, it includes...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread 68kmla MIA.Turns out it was actually Defor, not Cory, who removed the thread. I've spoken with him on IRC. His opinion is basically: - we are...
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3lectr1c replied to the thread 68kmla MIA.Yesterday, I posted an open letter to the 68kMLA leadership onto the forum. Multiple users had replied with support to it...
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