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Yeah any T1200 needs the dc/dc board in the computer recapped. This is a must on any Toshiba from this time. As for whether the power brick needs it, not sure.

Thanks! None of those problems seem that bad - that might be the one I go with.

That one looks pretty great - what are those imperfections you mentioned?

That one could be pretty good, but I do think I want to go with something higher-tier, just because I want to be sure it’s gonna last.

I’m at the point now where I need to get a microscope to be able to continue improving at my soldering repairs - I need some recommendations. What do y'all use? I’m looking for one that has a built-in camera so I can record my repairs. My budget would be around $200-300.

I'm impressed that one that old worked. They're usually unreliable/nonworking on anything older than a Pentium III.

Even if you get a modern web browser running, it will be so anemic that even basic modern websites will be unbearably slow. There's honestly not much of a point in trying. For an SSD - an mSata to IDE adapter with a 128GB mSata drive will likely work fine in the 240X. Probably.

That one's really bad. Might be worth doing a reloaded board rather than trying to fix all those bad traces and vias. You'll have to see what it looks like on top after cleaning and scraping the corrosion off.

I don't know for sure here unfortunately, but I do know that parallel was the standard around this time. LVDS didn't come around till....late 90s?

Except imagine the container is a pressurized chamber instead of an open one, so instead it explodes when you try to overflow it. In any case - what you said is true most of the time, but the PB100 is a re-engineered Macintosh Portable, which had horrific power management design, so it can get...

Oh - and also - do you have to press a key for it to start (normal behavior), or does it power on as soon as power is connected?

Two things to try: 1. Use the proper AC adapter. The 100 is supposed to use a 7.5V 2A supply. Anything else may not let it start, and risks damaging the logic board. Apple was pretty explicit about this in their documentation, so it is more important than it is for the average computer. 2. Check...

ah yes, the Quantum BlueSCSI.

Looks like the 3rd gen is stuck in debug mode. Could be bad hard drive or a corrupted drive.

There's been a bug in the BlueSCSI V2 and the ZuluSCSI of which the V2 is based that's been happening to a lot of PowerBook users where the OS will freeze when trying to "spin up" the drive. Basically, on PowerBooks, Mac OS will automatically spin the hard drive down after a few minutes to save...

The heat didn’t bother me much. If they had held it earlier, I wouldn’t have been able to attend due to school obligations regardless, so I’m very glad they hold one of these meets during the summer.

And that would be me in the background on the second photo :) I'm clearly carrying some laptop, can't tell which one. I drove off with probably close to 15 laptops.

No schematic in the video, but it's a great watch. Probably the best TDNC video I've seen so far :)

I won’t mind heat too much. Will be too distracted by the old computers :)

It better not storm... This is the once-in-a-year event for me!