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Field Strip a Macintosh LC in Under 30 Seconds
Apparently back in the 1990s, one of the demos a sales person would do is strip an LC in about 30 seconds to demonstrate the repairability of the machine.

Seems like this could be a fun challenge to do at meetups. Disassemble and reassemble an LC in working order in under a minute.

"This is my Macintosh! There are many like it, but this one is mine!"


Posted by: olePigeon on 2024-02-16 12:59:50
The horror! won't anyone think of the poor brittle case tabs! 😛

Posted by: Fizzbinn on 2024-02-16 13:01:19
Nope. There's no way those plastic will support such vigour these days. I'm always very, very, gentle with my LCs.

Posted by: VMSZealot on 2024-02-17 07:10:20
Nope. There's no way those plastic will support such vigour these days. I'm always very, very, gentle with my LCs.
Interestingly I don't find the LC cases to be that brittle, of all my LC's I only have one where a tab has broken from normal use and one more where a internal tab was broken during shipping (But has been fine for years after glueing it back on) Wonder the if a different plastic mix was used on the EU ones


Posted by: max1zzz on 2024-02-17 07:14:02
The Quadra 605 cases are much more brittle than the "classic" LC style ones.

Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2024-02-18 07:32:25