@seldo did you hike down and swim in the lake! Even notable hater of hiking and swimming @keith liked it. <3

@Geekman A good strategy! But don’t be too cautious — counterintuitively the way polish works is to abrade the scratches away. Took me a few tries to believe that you use harsher abrasive (Novus no. 3) to get big scratches out, but it will leave a matte/micro-scratched surface behind. It’s not ruined! Then you use a lighter abrasive (Novus no. 2) and it’ll improve it greatly. Then you do that a few times and buff heavily, and it’s nice and smooth.

@pierrenick @likesoldmacs I’m disappointed all of mine are DOS based now that I have a basement full of Macs, but oh man, I think I found the best of them: https://twitter.com/deliciousgames/status/1641653560818520066?s=46&t=dfQ8yAV1hvdi-SXFE6iJrQ

@likesoldmacs Oh I LOVED those. And there are more! I’d forgotten about these absolutely bangin’ full color Buick 5.25” disks.

@Geekman Plastic polish is abrasive, though, so I got somewhat weird results on matte surfaces. I found regular rubbing alcohol to be great at getting scuffs out. Hopefully that gets you most of the way there!

@Geekman Plastic polish (like PlastX or the Novus system) works great on the glossy surfaces with a lot of manual scrubbing. I recommend attaching a buffing wheel to a power drill for the final buff.

@gruber @mwichary @alexcox Oh you're absolutely right! The IIc had Apple's first keyboard printed in Univers, a choice (originally specified by Frog Design) that they kept around through the early 2000s.

@mwichary @gruber @alexcox I was also surprised by this. Apple used various flavors of Helvetica as their main branding font (logo-adjacent) in 1983, but the logo lockup for those pieces uses Motter Tektura.