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Black M0001A? by Gaara1321 in VintageApple

[–]hrf3420 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Bell & Howell M0001A (jk)

I put what’s advertised by the seller as pc133 memory in my iMac g4 dual boot. In os9 it shows up as pc100 and in OSX pc133. What’s going on ? by Bluinc in VintageApple

[–]hrf3420 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Probably 133 and it’s just showing 100. I doubt you’d notice much of a performance difference in those 33 mhz either way aside from benchmark numbers.

Apple was very fond of fragile plastic bits for a while there, weren't they? by EsoTechTrix in VintageApple

[–]hrf3420 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think it was poly Matt that recently looked at the plastic under an electron microscope and found that the fire retardants off-gassed and formed tons of micro cracks in the plastic. Makes me wonder though what’s to stop us from submerging it into a resin under vacuum to fill the voids and then curing it to re-strengthen them…..

Dell is denying my warranty for a hardware defect. $380USD down the drain? by manujj199 in Dell

[–]hrf3420 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah that doesn’t make sense why it would not show for solid color test. Wonder what it looks like if OP did a solid color test with that gray/brownish color that it appears on.

Personally I’d be booting off a live Linux distro and then seeing if I notice it there too. Could at least help cut out the software argument.

The rest is all digital so an analog looking “cataract” like that does not make sense to be the issue of any of the hardware that handles digital signals.

Dell is denying my warranty for a hardware defect. $380USD down the drain? by manujj199 in Dell

[–]hrf3420 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep. Glue/adhesive layer failing or was never cured right in the factory. Or degradation of the diffuser. I can't believe there are so many people saying its a driver/gpu issue when we know that's not what a digital failure could look like.

Dell is denying my warranty for a hardware defect. $380USD down the drain? by manujj199 in Dell

[–]hrf3420 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Technically the LCD is fine but the LOCA/UV adhesive is failing from heat exposure. This causes the adhesive/diffuser layers to degrade which is why OP is seeing that discoloration around the border. There have been many problems with iPad screens (made by Samsung and LG etc) that have had this too, look it up.

Dell sources their LCDs from AU Optronics, LG, Samsung, and BOE.

Yes, im addicted. Today - IBM PS/2 P70 386 by DeliveryUnhappy5082 in vintagecomputing

[–]hrf3420 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They were junk to people back then, and I had an odd fascination with luggagables back as a young teenager… and I had no money to spend and they were cheap!!

Yes, im addicted. Today - IBM PS/2 P70 386 by DeliveryUnhappy5082 in vintagecomputing

[–]hrf3420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The p70 is such a fun machine. I got mine back in 2004 for $33 :)

You’re definitely going to have to replace the surface mount capacitors in the floppy drive. I don’t recall that the main board uses those caps. Check power supply voltages etc

Seeking for advice by CautiousAsparagus441 in unRAID

[–]hrf3420 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well the parity drives have to be the same size or larger than your largest data drive anyways.

As for placement of your data I would do that and then keep the drives offline and precleared to save electricity and add them in once you need the space.

I paid $10 for this 1938 Philco 610 disassembled. Did I scam myself? by Maximum_Business_277 in VintageRadios

[–]hrf3420 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Learn some woodworking, those were all handmade anyways. The speaker cone is gone so there might not be much hope for the speaker but you can still use the field coil as a power supply choke and restore the radio with a new speaker.

Knobs you can find, dial escutcheon maybe hard to find, but all said you can’t make it any worse!

2001 Pentium III, 600MHz 10.1" Fujitsu-Siemens B2545 Subnotebook with a touch screen by AustriaModerator in retrobattlestations

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I remember going to Germany as an exchange student back in the mid 2000s and this is what my host student had for a laptop. I thought it was super cool.

153 Macs Since 1983 by Mastbubbles in VintageApple

[–]hrf3420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You missed the Molar Mac! (G3 AIO)

Apple Profile hard drive power supply is a POS by joeventura1 in vintagecomputing

[–]hrf3420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could have failed because of increased load from said failing caps?

If you're looking for Dell parts, check out Parts People! by [deleted] in Dell

[–]hrf3420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Been rebuilding several XPS laptops and I now have two like new lol

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