it's a well known fact that injection-molding piracy was rampant back in the Reagan era

dang it. I did a decent job cleaning up this part of the case but I accidentally put it down the wrong way and damaged a clip. I'm gonna have to shim & glue it to have it attach properly

This is going to take forever to clean. I basically can only clean one channel at once with a cotten bud, and even that is tricky

significantly cleaner! qtips, paper towels + spudger, and toothbrushing it got basically all of it.

they didn't remove the little peely plastic protective film! This thing is from 1986! that's 38 years of PEELING LEFT UNDONE!

@foone was it always this brown-ish or is it a UV protective sticker (mostly joking)

@instereo256 great question. Going by their old magazine ads, I think they were always kinda brownish? the front is a whitish-beige, which has definitely yellowed, but I think this darker brown-grey part has always been that way

@foone @instereo256 Wyse terminals were grey. Source: I used to work using them in the early 90s.

@cstross @foone @instereo256 Can confirm. Source: am also old and used them