Teardown of Original Macintosh 128K Shows How the Mac Has Progressed

[superman23]

Electrocution hazard? Surely that warrants a drop below 7/10

really not that hard to spot the high voltage capacitors and check and make sure there's no voltage on them

 

[Nahaz]

The deep screws were easy to remove using the special allen wrench gave repair techs back then. I remember the biggest pain in the tush part was cracking open the case. had a special prying clamp/wrench for that too. It was still a pain the the (_!_).

I use to repair those old Macs. 30 years already? Now I feel old.

Definitely an easy machine to repair. I had the extended Torx driver, Prying Clamp and Disharge Probe for the flyback lead from the monitor. All standard repair kit for an Apple Tech of the day.

They were a great little computer. I think the major thing that use to go wrong with them was that 330k resistor that died on the main power board.

Ahh the memories....

 

[alphaod]

Let me see:
Integrated display - check
No optical drive - check
Soldered memory - check
Flash storage - check
Keyboard with no numberpad - check

We really have gone a long way


(I know there was no optical drives yet, just making a joke)