TFW you disassemble a Sony Magic Link PIC-2000 to recap it and it suddenly starts working. #retrocomputing
Peter Leonard
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The fact that the General Magic GMB001 battery is just a Sony NP-5x0 is what enables miracles like this:
Apple Lisa Technical Procedure Guide: “The yoke socket can only be fit one way onto the CRT neck.”
Me: Hold my iced coffee.
Gotcha. Last part of the Lisa I need to re-cap: the analog board. Only requires the removal of the entire CRT…
That green light on the right, and the “DISK” at the bottom of the screen, mean we’re back in business. (The Cat saves state by dumping its 256k RAM to a single-sided 3.5” disk.)
Today’s project is reinforcing the fracture-prone plastic head rail retaining clips on the Canon MD-3301, a disk drive unfortunately unique to the Canon Cat. Following Cameron’s excellent write-up on using pipe hanger here: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html
@paulrickards on the plotter beat at #vcfwest . Perhaps being used here for circuit design?
