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How to power up PowerBook 100 w/o keyboard!
Posted by: bengi3 on 2020-04-16 04:38:54
ebay the first lot, amazon the second

Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-04-16 04:41:23
it wouldn't entirely surprise me if I'd got a dodgy batch of caps from either of those two places... two dodgy batches one from each is less likely, but possible.

Posted by: bengi3 on 2020-04-16 05:53:32
For instance as a test with the dodgy lot I recapped the 8 caps of a bad LCD (PB 100 with the reddish spiderweb syndrome) which now shows an horizontal line.

Posted by: Papichulo on 2020-04-16 08:50:49
It also has fuse on the board i just looked at mine. 

Posted by: bengi3 on 2020-04-17 09:47:08
Another one liberated! This one has the purple rot though:

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