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Could you please share the link to the rollers spare set? I was planning to tackle that issue on my own, by casting or turning something, but if the solution is already out there it makes no sense… Thanks!

There’s no real fix. At best, you can get some temporary improvement. Those screens were technically flawed, in the sense that they were not built to survive the long term environmental aging. Chemicals such as glues irreversibility deteriorates. I got some kind of improvement with my unit by...

”Coffee”… I can only speak for coffee to taste and savour, not for coffee to drink, as in Italy there’s only “espresso”… and a thousand of variants! Illy is my favorite commercial brand, many blends available, including for long coffee. Anyhow, recently I have been forced to switch to a...

Had the same issue some time ago with my Cube G4, if I remember well you need 9.2.1 or something like that...

I have a soft spot for the Portable and for the 100, too. Built by Sony, as far as I remember, which at the time was the absolute master of miniaturization, in mechanics and electronics (some of the most epic devices from Sony were released in the early 90s…). However, it is true that the 100 is...

The pins have dovetail latches. Either use an extractor, or with a needle gently bend each latch inward. You will have to bend them outward again and to restore the dovetail shape before inserting them back into the new connector body.

For the keys, it’s likely a matter of thoroughly cleaning the inner contacts: desoldering, disassembling and cleaning each single switch. As for the OS, 4 Mb are sufficient for installing OS 7, hard to tell why you are not able to install it.

One thing that I noticed after doing some testing. As long as I connect to a remote FTP server (for example, an SE30 running Netpresenz) everything works fine. I can get and put files. However, switching parts would also be an interesting proposition. So, I installed Netpresenz on the...

Another timeless classic. Built like a tank, drives like a tank :-)

To my judgement and experience, this is one of BMW’s finest interiors. I’ve driven one for many years and enjoyed every moment. Buttons, knobs, dials, but also digital screens blending seamlessly with the instruments. But maybe it’s just me getting too old.

Agree, my family has one too, and it’s a very fine and well thought interior. Still, put an old person behind the wheel and the judgement will be different. Ea h function should never be more than 3 “clicks” away, but it’s seldom the case. With physical buttons, each function is one action away.

Bad news on the way… Fresh from Autocar magazine’s web site. Mid life update Tesla 3 just got rid of the steering wheel stalks. Fog lights are gone, too. Good job, guys, some 50 bucks in production costs spared. And BMW’s horrific “Neue Klasse” concept interior is yet another copycat of Tesla: a...

Amazing job, guys, thanks for making it available to the vintage Mac community! Today I took out my v2.0 and swapped the Pico with a Pico-W. One hour later I had my Mac Portable 7.1.1 on line. Just unbelievable. Only remark: the MacTCP version on the provided disk image refused to work...

Car industry is one of the most conservative ever: requiring huge expenditures and investments, running on meagre margins, it’s totally cost driven. The touch panel-based UX craziness stemmed from Tesla, who managed to sell impossibly spartan interiors for the epitome of coolness (some sort of...

Can't answer this one, but you will pardon me if I use this thread for dropping one question: where to source reasonably priced pin feed paper, the nice, old fashioned one with stripes? Couldn't find much even on Amazon...

Thanks for the insight. My goal would be to have everything done on one 68k Mac, preferably a plain 68000. I’m only missing something that can take binary and convert to “hex text”, byte by byte. If nothing pop ups, could be a funny project for reviving my acquaintance with Think Pascal.

Disk images are binary dump… in disk image format, so there’s some overhead on top of the original disk data. Eventually, I found out that Fedit can open and save each sector individually. What I am missing is some early 68k tool which can take hex and save as string equivalent, in a way data...

Hi guys, bad weather out there, some time to squander... Long story short: I decided to start deep diving into MFS, which is very basic and sufficiently document in the Inside Mac and in the manual of the rather excellent Fedit software. Because... Why not? Beside Fedit, the Norton Disk Editor...

I’ve had 3 Portables, all non back lit (if you like oddballs, go all the way…). Sold one for ridiculously cheap money a long time ago, still have two. One dormant, one in full efficiency. You surely need to rebuild the battery, recap the motherboard and replace the Conner drive. The trackball...

No, it‘s third party.