(This was originally a Twitter thread from May 26, 2022) May 26, 2022 Today I’m going to recap the LCD display on this PowerBook 160. It has a passive matrix LCD display capable of displaying 4-bit grayscale (16 shades of gray). The display was dim before with some severe artifacts (after adjusting the contrast slider) […]
Tag Archives: retrocomputing
Recap and repair of a Mac Classic II
(This was originally a thread posted on Twitter on June 30, 2022) June 30, 2022 On the bench for recapping today is a Mac Classic II, the last of the b&w compact Macs (1991). I forgot how small the motherboard was.
Welcoming (back) a LaserWriter II
July 31, 2022 Welcoming a new (old) printer (back) into my fleet: a LaserWriter II. It’s a workhorse of a printer from 1988 dressed in Snow White design language. #RetroComputing (This is an experimental post to attempt to convert a Twitter thread into a WordPress post).
MJB Cartridge Expander and 80 column card for C64
I’ve had this cartridge expander for a few years and always assumed it was commonly known about and that the ROM inside had been dumped. It seems that may not be the case, so this page is to provide the information I have about it.