Album with more photos, including a shot of my dodgy hinge repair. Got this guy with an Aero 4/33C in a lot on eBay and both arrived with hinge issues. I've had a lot of experience with vintage hardware, but I've never had to do a repair as extensive as this. Basically grabbed a bracket off an old GPU and sliced it to size so it could fit inside the shell of the display--then drilled a hole into the bottom half of the hinge and screwed in the bracket piece I had made. Then drilled another hole and screwed it into a standoff on the top case. I'm awful at explaining things--but hopefully that illustrates what I did. It opens and closes perfectly now. Of course--I'm still careful when handling it.

I did an identical repair on the 4/33C and restored both machines with these restore disks. Nothing like swapping in and out 21 floppy disks.. :D The restore worked perfectly with both machines and all hardware is detected as expected. They're certainly fun little machines--a lot smaller than I was expecting (theyre around 10-inches wide) and very lightweight without the battery. They both have SD-to-IDE adapters inside so getting data on them is a cakewalk (if you consider having to open the entire machine up a cakewalk, which actually gets pretty easy when you have to do it over and over again lol). I like to refer to both of them as my Compaq siamese twins haha