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  1. Kai Robinson

    eBay seller PSA

    Its fine to post a thread to an ebay auction in general, it's why there are threads like these in the trading post: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/eu-roi-internet-auction-finds.760/ However, if it's your own thing - just make a thread in the relevant section of the trading post following...
  2. Kai Robinson

    Powerbook 170 battery rebuild. Guidance needed.

    It means i've tagged @Sideburn in the post to draw their attention to it - they've done battery pack rebuilds before.
  3. Kai Robinson

    IDE/PATA to SATA for iMac G3 rev a

    @Action Retro has had probably the most experience with these - all I know is - they're picky as hell.
  4. Kai Robinson

    Damaged digitiser flex cable on H1000 MessagePad

    @Androda may be the person to talk to about this - he's done reproduction flex cables before :)
  5. Kai Robinson

    [Solved] Mac iici boots to gray screen

    Sounds like you need to redo the soft power/startup circuit, usually a recap, but check all the traces around and under the 74LS chips. Also the logic there can just die, so worth replacing them while you're at it.
  6. Kai Robinson

    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    It would be very popular... If people would commute to it. Not enough critical mass for it to succeed as a storefront - Also, business rates, commercial rental prices are through the roof - it'd open and fold within a month.
  7. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Ha! There was due to be an Aliens/Star Trek crossover graphic novel released, but it got cancelled for some reason - was supposed to be set on the Enterprise-D at some point before it went boom over Veridian III - i'd have loved to have read that! There have been so many franchise crossovers...
  8. Kai Robinson

    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    I'd love to go dumpster diving....but unfortunately, most skips here are just full of utter crap. Never anything good. If you go to the recycling place to drop off your e-waste, they don't let you take anything away, even if another person offers it to you, they get actually angry and tell you...
  9. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Absolutely agree with this - I worked with two of the guys from Feral who ported it to mac and I live about 15 miles away from Creative Assembly in Horsham. The design brief was "don't add anything that couldn't have been made as a physical prop in 1979“. The fact that the whole team were...
  10. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Wow, I had no idea this even existed...!
  11. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Yep - for the Star Trek side of things, i've been watching 'Target Audience' and 'Jen Murray' - Target Audience has good breakdowns of the episodes especially.
  12. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    It's a good watch for sure - I enjoyed it. I quite enjoy watching reaction video's from people that haven't seen it - hard to believe that anyone out there thats an adult that hasn't seen it...but still, they all seem to react about the same especially at the dinner table scene... ;)
  13. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Alien3 was just a mess due to studio interference, even David Fincher just walked off and disowned it. There were so many better scripts - one got made into a graphic novel (the William Gibson version). Alien Resurrection was just....'ehhhh'. The horror element was even less than that of...
  14. Kai Robinson

    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    I grew up as a massive fan of the first two films (the others not so much), which was helped by the fact my mum had a very, very tiny hand in both of them as a seamstress working in the props/costuming department. While i went out of my way to try and enjoy Prometheus and Covenant, i really just...
  15. Kai Robinson

    A takky Mac…..

    I watched the video with my wife from start to finish - was blown away by the quality of the work all around - was wondering if the outer case pieces would work in a real Mac Plus chassis...
  16. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    @TheBasement had a fair bit of success baking the LCD from his Powerbook - check out the video here:
  17. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    I was meaning the Backlight card - browser took me to the first page.
  18. Kai Robinson

    Macintosh Portable horror story

    Yeah China still doesn't like Japan from what happened in 1934...China uses that period to justify a lot of their behaviour.