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A public service advisory from Eric's Edge
You Wouldn't Buy Just Any Cap
#Hardware #Vintage #Computer #Capacitor #Recap

A printable HyperCard game achievement certificate for Adventure! The Quack of Dawn. In the background is a 1 bit rendition of The Great Wave off Kanagwa by Katsushika Hokusai. In the foreground is a tattered scroll with game stats. There are two prints. One is from a StyleWriter II and the second from an ImageWriter II.

A suggestion from the Adventure! Quality Assurance Squad was to add a certificate of some sort to the game.
#Adventure #HyperCard
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New caps. Goofed a bit and ordered a non-polarized one. Works

Trackball mode is the most useful mode.

Recapped this lovely PS/2 trackball/mouse for my L40 SX laptop. It’s an odd beast that is a bit awkward as a trackball - I don’t care for the button placement. And unusable when converted to mouse mode.

It does work now so that’s nice.

Eric's Edge - Apple IIC YouTube video by Eric's Edge

Saturday morning at 9 AM Eastern. Let's look at this Apple IIC.

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iNaturalist Animals and Plants

There's something so sweet about seven states having a bee as their most reported animal. Thousands of people every day see a bee and go "holy shit, I gotta tell my phone."

Booted into System 7.5.3

I usually use the clear formula immersion technique and that takes several days. This is obviously quicker and I had time to baby sit it.

Macintosh SE/30 computer with a BlueSCSI SD slot mounted in the floppy drive opening.

#Macintosh SE/30 ready to go. Clean with #BlueSCSI, #retrobrite, and recap.

Used the brush on technique with SalonCare 30 Volume Creme Developer. Requires brushing a bit more on every 15 minutes to prevent streaking for about 90 minutes in the sun.

Slathered in frosting?

When the emphasis is on loyal first, then competent it isn’t surprising.

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson

Mine does too. I’m okay at 20 inches. I have to use a microscope.

T-15 driver before adding Coban.

T-15 driver after adding Coban.

Adding a bit of Coban around the middle helps.

For example, my T-15 driver for opening a classic Macintosh is a combination of parts held together with heat shrink tubes. Works well enough. I’ve been having difficulty spinning the shaft with my fingertips. I have the fine motor skills to do this, it’s just painful.

I have osteoarthritis in my hands. A common condition for someone my age. It can be a challenge when I repair vintage computers.

I can’t cure my condition AND I can make accommodations.

I recognized three of the anime openings they covered. Not bad for not being into the genre.
Pokémon, One-Punch Man, Full Metal Alchemist

Now following.

Opening act for Wesley and the Crushers is Spirit Bomb.

Too much stuff! Final tally:
1x Color Classic
2x SE/30s (one looks to have a video card)
1x Classic II
1x Classic
6x SE (3 of which are FDHD/Superdrive)
Imagewriter II in box
7x Apple Kbds
5x Apple Kbd IIs
5x Apple Extended Kbds
1x Plus Kbd
1x 128/512 num pad
Lots of other mice
1x ext floppy

As more and more old SCSI hard drives start to fail, projects like BlueSCSI become more and more important.

Both to save the contents of, and/or replace dying drives, and also to allow us to backup and take the load off working drives so we can preserve them for the future.

I’m surprised they didn’t call them “career advancement delays”.

The orangey-red tinted paper of The Tower of Silka's cover with a cute anime warrior gal dominating the page and reaching out with one hand toward the viewer with a smile. A fantasy map is overlaid behind her

Stack! RPG. A cute little box with smiley face and eyes, no doubt to represent the Hypercard Stack

Look how cute the cover of this Japanese Mac HyperCard dungeon-crawling RPG is!

Released in 1993 and titled a 'Stack RPG'.

Colossal Cave of course.

uhhh by popular demand i think this is a t-shirt now?

this might be a bad idea, felt way too easy. i just sped through setting this up so go nuts i guess lol. dunno what the quality will be like.

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An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...

i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag

Rebuilding a previously corroded Macintosh Plus YouTube video by BigBadBench

This week has totally destroyed my confidence as a fixer, as everything I touched is in worse condition than when I started. Let's see if I can build back a little credibility by rebuilding this Mac Plus that was hit with a battery bomb. Saturday (28th) at noon eastern. youtube.com/live/qBDJf4j...

I suppose the opposite is true too. We can challenge whatever non-scientific alternative opinion crap they cram in.

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos Let's Chat with former Apple Computer Engineer Steve Smith!

The GLUE logic on the Macintosh Portable, the "Twiggy" drive, ASIC design that showed up in dozens of computers and devices - Steve was at the "gate"!

Let's Chat with former Apple Engineer Steve Smith!
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Define the Problem Eric's Edge published a post on Ko-fi

Define the Problem first!

Blogity blog post.
#HyperCard
#consulting
#requirements
#customer

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Organize the help information into chunks, so users can scan and select the information they want.