OpenSCAD modeling of the Mac Portable battery plate

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Don't forget to play Dark Castle today to see the tree in the foyer 🎄

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The Mac Portable VGA Out board V1 is done:
https://androda.work/product/vga-adapter-for-macintosh-portable/

The listing is up but there's very minimal stock available from the fist test run. Will get another production run going soon.

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VGA Adapter For Macintosh Portable – Tech by Androda

TIL the Macintosh Portable M5120 DA-15 video out port is not a standard Mac video port-- It's digital! And it's basically the same output going to the LCD display.

It seems Apple was going to make an adapter, but never did? At least one company, Sayett Technology, made the DataShow, HR/MP, a LCD for overhead projectors that supported the SE/30 and the Portable.

Curiously, DataShow projection panels are made by Kodak too 🤔

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Impossible WiFi On An Ancient Mac Portable

The Macintosh Portable was possibly one of the coolest computing devices to be seen with back at the end of the 1980s, providing as it did a Mac in a slightly nicer version of the hefty luggable po…

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Nope. More lines on the screen, slightly different than before. Won’t boot. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #MacPortable
New Mac Portable Hybrid installed. Will this one cure this cursed laptop? #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #MacPortable
The new hybrid didn’t change the Mac Portable behavior. As soon as battery power is applied, there’s still random horizontal and vertical lines on the screen and the speaker crackles. Keyboard presses, no change. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #VintageApple #MacPortable
Cleaned up the site some and installed a socket. New hybrid installed. This one came from eBay last year (v1.3, apparently 1.4 is now available). #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #VintageApple #MacPortable
Mac Portable Hybrid removed. Took a desoldering vac, copper braid, and hot air to get this off the board. Looks like some capacitor electrolyte got under the solder mask of the ground plane but otherwise not bad. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #MacPortable #Macintosh