Notes

Ancient Usenet post by @siegel saves me in 2023 yet again

Is there a name for this type of SMD capacitor where the terminals are on the same short side?

When you've stunk up the house removing capacitors one too many times

If you find yourself browsing the world wide web one day for a replacement Hosiden HLR1021-101182 for your PowerBook 180 and come across an LCD shop selling some that claim to be refurbished with new backlight lamps and tested working but think, gosh, that's more money than I paid for the PowerBook but it might be worth it to have a good screen that works for a long time... don't bother, they have the same stupid tunnel vision problem out of the box

How does a .NET framework suddenly go missing

I'll be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this September 9th and 10th with some Macintosh stuff, so stop by and say hello cyberpal

That is a huge hand

EtherTalk over Wi-Fi works now so you can use AppleShare over it

I'm going to Boston soon, what nerdy things should I see or do while I'm there?

Apparently I've offended the PowerBook by adding WiFi to it. Last night it started getting these black splotches on the screen (even when powered off) and overnight they multiplied into many horizontal lines.

I swapped in a top cover from another PowerBook 180 but this one suffers from tunnel vision :(

To make this weirder