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The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992)

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It feels like it's inevitable that the kind of person that would enjoy this kind of thing would already know about this, but if repairing classic Macs is something that appeals to you and you aren't already subbed to Adrian Black's channel(s), go check out his Repairathon series[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKD65I86XGQ

I like how this book makes the justification for just fixing it yourself.

This is an awesome resource for anyone who finds and wants to fix up a classic Macintosh.

I found this last night after my recently re-capped Macintosh 512Ke started flup-flup-flup on boot. I found some old forum posts about re-soldering the flyback transformer but that didn't fix it.

One of the forum posts had a link to The Dead Mac Scrolls and after reading the section on tuning the voltage lower, powered it up and Happy Mac Sound and booted right up.

Approximate cost of repairing it yourself: 15 min.

I downloaded a copy to keep handy, but my 30 year old Macintosh still works and has never needed to be repaired. It has survived 8 or 9 major moves and 3 different climates.

Meanwhile, I'm unable to get some people to find the Start button at the bottom-left side of the screen.

Well, since Vista it doesn't stay "Start" anywhere anymore :-P

I wonder why is it even called the "start menu" nowadays instead of "window menu" or something like that (considering the icon).

(though even that might not always work considering the stylization... my aunt uses some slang that basically translates to "little boxes", which took me a LONG time to understand what she was talking about when i was trying to help with her Win10 laptop through phone :-P)

You start/launch applications from the menu? That's my guess.

And you also shut down from it... I suppose calling it the Stop Menu didn't seem like a good idea, though. Making it the Windows logo does make it more similar to macOS and its Apple Menu (which does less and less over time, the opposite of Windows, ironically). I vaguely remember Gnome used the G 'foot' symbol for its main menu, though it doesn't scale down very well, so giving up on that was probably wise. For all three I tend to just to invoke their launcher with the meta key (meta-space for Spotlight on the Mac, though I like Albert personally) and type what I want instead of digging around in the menu, these days.

You start the shut down process from it...

Ouch, did it hurt stretching for that?

Approximate dealer repair cost:

1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33

Holy moly, that's a lot

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