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    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook?

    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook? Fast food & leftovers don’t count. 🙂 Me, as much as I love left overs, it has to be charcuterie & some hooch. What do y’all go for?
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    iBook G3 is the teardown from Hell - stripped screw

    You can use something like a McMaster electronics screw extractor. They're around $10 a pop but work well for these sort of stubborn stripped screws and saves your plastics.
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    G3 All-in-One: Typical Restoration Necessary When Buying Used?

    Haha oh mah gosh. When you said g3 AIO, an angry Krang Molar mac is the LAST mac Id have thought of :D I have zero idea what a fair price is on one of those - definitely outside of what I collect. Best of luck to you though! 🍻
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    G3 All-in-One: Typical Restoration Necessary When Buying Used?

    I think that is a crazytown price for a local AIO imacg3. The last two I picked up this year (one just last month) was $15 and $50 respectively & the $50 unit came with kb/ms, software and a bunch of other neat era peripherals like bondi floppy drive, bondi USB hub, blueberry Zip, floppy to SD...
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    Cool stocking stuffer idea for the Classic Mac Lover

    I showed this to my wife but my hopes are not high that this will make it into my stocking this year. :D
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    Advice re: What to do with MacBook2,1 (Late 2006)--Worth Repairing?

    Oh wow $70 is way overpriced to Dallas. OWC has 4gb (2x 2gb) PC2-5300 DDR2 kit for 18.99+S&H. Shipping to me stateside (not too far from you) is $4.00 for 5-7day. See below...
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    Advice re: What to do with MacBook2,1 (Late 2006)--Worth Repairing?

    Are you sure someone didn't accidentaly spill something like morning coffee on it? Maybe its old sticky flux goo that didn't get removed during manufacturing? Assuming components are good, I agree - a good clean, stick a $20 120gb sata drive in it & a $20 4gb PC2-5300 DDR2 stick (or 2x 2gb kit)...
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    ENDED *Christmas Photo Contest!*

    I have two that burnt out so will take a small modeling dremel to them to see if it's something I can retrofit with a normal c7 bulb (put them back together) and keep them going. It really seems wasteful to throw them out if I can get a new bulb in the sealed plastic base somehow. The cheapest I...
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    ENDED *Christmas Photo Contest!*

    My DD is a 2009 2.26ghz IC2D MBP - gift from IT director at work. He knows I like Apple stuff and was going to recycling otherwise. The 20” ACD was bundled with a PPC 2ghz DC pmg5 Craigslist pickup couple years back. Nestled in between is Moms nativity set when she was a kid. The bubble bulbs...
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    Ridiculous things you want to try and do...

    My wife loves to star gaze. It was a hobby as a kid and became a passion of hers when she took some astronomy courses in college. kids and life has dulled that somewhat but she still gets a kick out of looking up. We are lucky to live where we do as during the summer we can drive back into the...
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    Ridiculous things you want to try and do...

    Uhh, I would like to run a wire out my office window and from that an antenna camouflaged up my Russian Olive tree in the front yard for some ham fun. It would be cool to broadcast a radio station from it. I would also like to point a camera up at the stars and run that wirelessly to one of my...
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    Restoration: Nintendo Entertainment System

    Do you have the stash box on the bottom still?
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    Through the Looking Glass (1984)

    I always wished that Zork came in box art like that (another fav of mine).
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    Through the Looking Glass (1984)

    That is some cool box art & textiles. Congrats.
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    Sil3512 Sata PCI Weibetech OSX Flashing utility

    It seems the waybackmachine is having server trouble and cannot find the weibetech utility downloads from crawls between 2005-2009 so Ive attached the files needed to flash a generic sil3512 SATA card to work in a mac for large drive support (originally pulled from WBM archive). The utility runs...
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    Flash SIL3112 SATA Controller Card for Mac

    Yep, 3112s working with the Weibetech flashing utility in beige macs back to 7.6 discussed over at macrumors. Unfortunately, the way back machine archive seems to be having server trouble as I cannot access any of the weibetech site utility downloads from 2005 to 2008 which is a drag. Here's my...
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    Flash SIL3112 SATA Controller Card for Mac

    Not a 3112, but one can flash a cheap $10 sil3512 with the weibetech flash utility that runs in OSX, so no x86 dosbox needed. I have a couple that boot up a B&W without issue. When I get home, I can attach the files here or maybe make a separate thread (guess that makes more sense). I swear I...
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    15" (1.25 GHz) PGB4 (Al) Sleep/Boot/Charging Issues

    That's great news. If it were me, I think the next thing Id look at is cracking that case and swapping out the PRAM battery (and doing the aforementioned maintenance). I fixit is a great source of high quality step by step directions BUT, House of Moth also posted the internal Apple service...
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    15" (1.25 GHz) PGB4 (Al) Sleep/Boot/Charging Issues

    AHT is a lighter version of the Apple Service diagnostic tools. Below is a link to some info on and downloads for ASD and AHT ASD & AHT