I was going more by the Reddit thread that ensued upon upload than the impetus behind the picture itself. I’m sure the original poster wasn’t trying to be mean.
Admittedly, any Reddit threat will eventually devolve into a discussion of anal sex (not that there’s usually anything wrong with that) but that’s kind of why I thought the photographer’s husband shouldn’t have uploaded it in the first place. Nobody can hide from the Sauron’s Eye of the internet forever, but if you can’t draw a cloak of privacy around stuff you keep in your home, where can you? As I type this I’m looking at some inscrutable/weird/corny-as-shit art that I’ve made and displayed in the privacy of my home office. I guess I can’t stop my next houseguest from posting it in /r/CrappyArt, but I would call that a dick move, to use the technical term.
Yeah, I avoid Reddit comment threads almost as much as YouTube comment threads. I’m not sure they’re an accurate representation of the average person. At least I hope they’re not.
Your Realtor will ask you to depersonalize as much as possible, making the space a blank canvas onto which potential buyers project their own potential realities.
IIRC and dont quote me on this as it was a few decades ago, but the authorized repair center guides at that point did say clearly that these were made hard to open on purpose by design.
One thing is untrained persons might end up inadvertently harming themselves due to the CRT placement within the case.
For the UK automakers I’m thinking its the drinking on the job as motivation.
Although this doesn’t say what computer he uses, just the software he uses… [ETA] Also, my bad, the wrong story popped up! I scrolled too far! Fixed now.
The worst part were those two damn screws underneath the handle that required like an 18" shaft. And yeah, needing the jaws of life to crack the case open was kind of a pain too.
After that it wasn’t too terrible to work on.
Nah, other than needing a long shaft it needed a slightly hard to find but by no means exotic T15 bit IIRC. Cracking open the case without damaging was a pain because you needed a spreader of some kind. Of course Apple made a specialized tool for this but you could rig your own with some minor ingenuity. A woodworking clamp can do the job just fine.
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A woodworking clamp can do the job just fine.
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A bit big to carry on a field tech’s tool bag but that would work in the shop.
I think I started with a ridiculously long T-handle allen wrench from an Elevator company tool kit and some needle files, so all that sounds right. You guys have better memories than I do!
As a youngster I had a hand-me-down Mac Plus that I used for several years as a daily driver. It had a 10MB HDD and a 1200 baud modem. It’s what I first used to connect to local BBSes and dial-up Internet through borrowed accounts from University student friends of mine. I still remember just about every facet of that machine – from its telephone cord keyboard cable, to its awful mouse (which the previous owner had stuck foam pads on for some reason).
It’s not that I have a good memory, it’s just that the Mac Plus was a particularly influential and important machine for me.
Not really. WS has a proper system for applying styles to the text and has a much more usable way of marking and manipulating blocks of text. See this article for a review of WS that concentrates on the use of the control keys.
These days I mostly use Emacs and Org mode and rarely print anything but I wrote hundreds of pages of documentation with Wordstar on a Z80 CP/M addon for an Apple II in the early eighties and printed them on a daisywheel printer. In the late eighties I did a lot of Turbo Pascal programming for DOS, and later for Windows, and the TP editor used WS control key sequences, much more efficient than Visual Studio now where I have to move my hands away from the centre of the keyboard to find the home, end, and cursor control keys
