> On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:28 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hope everyone is enjoying their summer :-)
It's been a mixed bag for me so far but I've managed some victories on the retrocomputing front. On a long stay away from home I managed to score a fully operational (but not recapped / re-batteried) Mac 512Ke for about a quarter of the going price. I also scored a PowerBook Duo 280c with damn near every accessory ever made and an extremely hard to find memory upgrade. It ought to be here next week. My REXCPM arrived a while back but the M100 I planned to put it into suffered something unexpected when I diked out the battery: it paints the menu and clock and then hangs. It didn't do that before my hackneyed surgery so I assume I did some damage. Or does the 100 not operate properly with 0V across the internal battery? If that's not it I might need to poll the list for someone taking repair work. I could put the REXCPM into my 102 but I actually use the 102 pretty regularly for actual tasks and am loathe to disturb it from its ideal state. Other projects still pending: my MRC C64-clone ITX case arrived, awaiting a build of indeterminate nature. The PowerBook G4 1.67 needs attention, too. At last check, rummaging around the internals to upgrade it caused the nearly irreplaceable ribbon from the upper case to become unreliable and it's gone through two different front loading optical drives already. I'd hoped to turn that into a MorphOS machine. Lots of toys. Very little free time.
