On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Marta Edie <martaedie at mac.com> wrote:
> And you all had me wondering what kind of miracle tool you were > searching for ,something to reach deeply into some places i had no > idea what and where they might be and wondering all along whether I > were not missing some great opportunity to also perform a genius > act on my computer. Oh, Marta! I heard the other day that the definition of a geek is one who actually believes that it is possible to know everything. You sure qualify! I can only hope to aspire to your geekiness! I better get busy--I only have 28 years left! The long-shafted torx tool in question was the source of epic tool hunts by Mac geeks in the early days of the 128K, 512K, Plus, SE, etc. models. The long shaft was required because apple insisted on making it hard to get to them. Then you needed a tool called a "case- cracker" which was some kind of wedge that you could insert into the seams of the case to pry it apart. Something as simple as replacing the motherboard battery was turned into an evening of hilarious fun. I got pretty good at it myself. Upgrading RAM was a royal pain, though, back when the individual chips were soldered onto the mobo. I looked around for my old torx tool in case I could offer it to a list-bud but couldn't find it. Not much need for it anymore. The ones Apple uses on their laptops are REALLY tiny. j. -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com Project Foreman NewMedia Construction Co.
