Recent content by Kai Robinson

Ooooh the holy grail! I know one brainstorm bbu was decapped to hopefully reverse engineer it... But not seen that pds card before...

Separate URL: https://retro.tinkerdifferent.com/

We have a retro proxy for the forum, you might be able to view it on a Palm device, I know it works with Newton!

IIRC there was a discussion about this, making the site accessible to vintage machines - as we separate the web front end from the database, a 'reader' application could be developed, perhaps using HyperCard, to pull the live database data. I think @eric did a feasability test a few years ago...

Thank you @eric for your quick work, honestly the outage happening now shouldn't have affected anyone too badly, it's Christmas after all!

Oooh, wanna upload the whole PDF? ;)

@XodiumLabs has done this, the CMD 642 is a direct pin compatible replacement.

Moved, but stickied!

Time for a classic Reloaded? 😉

At this point it might be an idea to reach out to polymatt on YouTube...

@techknight is quite active on the discord, if you need to chat to him there!

Have you thought about doing an LED CCFL replacement mod, rather than messing with old CCFL's? I know this is the wrong size, but they do make them for smaller screens: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295196267562 For further watching, oh look, its a Sharp LQ series LCD used on powerbooks:

@Stephen I think already modelled a bezel like this for a magneto optical drive, for these models...?

I wonder if @Stephen may be able to assist, recently in the discord server he showed some 3d printed metal hinges... May be possible to model these and have new ones printed?

That looks like U1 is an SOIC version of U2, same pin count.