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Would I have to take it apart to get to the log? Will try to do that tomorrow.

Title. It’s in a PowerBook 170, System 7.1 and I can’t see any way to make it not spin down the drive in that version. Is there any fix for this? I can’t play Tetris properly, or leave it for more than a couple minutes or it locks up. Otherwise, I’m happy with the device. Have seen this brought...

+1 on cars without buttons. The UIs are usually laggy and just not great to use in general, especially while driving I'd imagine. Glad our car doesn't have any of that.

It shouldn't be that difficult to test the slider I'd imagine. If you attach a probe to each connector point and measure what I'd assume would be resistance off it. If sliding it results in a steady change, you should be good there. I do have a 145, so I can verify that we get the same readings...

No idea then. Try spraying deoxit into the contrast slider? Check for loose solder joints on the inverter?

What caps did you use on the screen? Ceramics have the potential to lead to this behavior on certain panels.

How about the fact that the settings app and control panel are STILL two different apps, 11 years on from what the settings app first was released. And the old control panel is still needed to complete certain tasks, like to manage network devices and partition a disk.

This is just one reason, I have many for why I like this stuff, but: Not really extremely vintage or anything, but stuff just looked nicer back then, in general. Nowadays we have thin and boring laptops, smartphones, and flat bland UI. I want to know whatever happened to UI like Windows Aero...

I don’t get the toxicity here? I’m sorry if I insulted you - that wasn’t my intention. I don’t doubt your experience, I was just offering my opinion based on my own experience to try to help out. Yours is welcome too.

It will vary a lot depending on the era and the make you’re looking at. For 90s computers, desktops are typically far more reliable. But for that early 2000s capacitor plague period, getting a laptop avoids that ever being an issue. I definitely wouldn’t call their reliability the same, when...

Well I still think the best solution would be to fit a new hard drive or solid state replacement in his current computer, since that’s all that’s wrong with his old one. Would simplify a lot of things. And I never suggested XP for the laptop as well - it would need to be running 98 to run...

This is true for many laptops from the 1990s, but I’d just like to mention that the ones I specified previously (from the early 2000s) are not anywhere close to horrid and they’re known to be very reliable. At the very least far more so than desktop computers from the time. Just wanted to...

Any windows version newer than 98 or Me will not be able to natively run WordPerfect, which includes 10. Doesn’t matter really if it’s 32 or 64 bit. If all laptops are out, that really just leaves finding a vintage computer that can run the software you would like to use, and those fail...

Ah, no worries. I'm here to help! Main issue I see right now is that the Optiplex models that you've specified are going to be too new to run DOS-based Windows (like Windows 98) properly. In a best case scenario, you'll be able to install it but you won't have the proper drivers (basically...

Believe that his last computer is late-90s, so it should be High Density.

The computers that you mentioned in your other threads are certainly internet-capable. The question would be whether or not you have any internet connection in your house? I assume you're messaging from a mobile phone - do you have home WiFi or just a cellular connection? If you can get your...

Picked up this sweet WinBook XL laptop up off eBay. Desktop Pentium MMX, floppy and CD built in, and a real OPL3.

3D printed rubber could probably do it too. Would be useful, I've managed to lose one of my 145's caps, one of my 180c's caps is falling apart, and my 150 is missing both...

I've got a proper Hakko desoldering pump so I'm not too worried about desoldering the old module, but that's a very kind offer! It will probably be a while before I manage to get myself a pico-w anyway, I always have so many projects and parts on "the list".

So in order to do this, I’d need to upgrade the Pico module in my V2 unit? Would be a nice way of getting my 170 online…