Repairing an Unreleased Prototype Mac...TABLET?!

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  • @donwilson
    @donwilson 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +487

    I've never seen anyone repair a flat flex cable before, this channel continues to be one of the very best on TH-cam.

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      That's because, in general, there is no reason to ever fix one because replacements are available.
      This fix is not going to last. He needs to use wires.

    • @escapetherace1943
      @escapetherace1943 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I've done it. People say it is impossible but it isn't if you can isolate the wires inside. Giant pain though

    • @XinmingChen
      @XinmingChen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is a common practice for Apple emate because the ribbon cable is prone to damage. I think Colin has talked about this in his emate video.

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I have many times. Just use magnet wire to jump past the damage. Removing the plastic coating can be an issue with some flat flex cables, but it's not impossible. A razor blade is good enough for most, but if really delicate, steel wool is a better option.

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rich1051414 Yeah and this repair will never hold up. He needed to do it with wire.

  • @Mr.OCanada
    @Mr.OCanada 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    I'm one of your Patrons and I watch almost every video. The cadence of your tone and camera work is great. Thanks for showing all the hardware from the past, I find them relaxing and informative.

  • @Stevew443
    @Stevew443 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +523

    Regarding open drives and clean rooms. Back in the early 80s I was a repair tech for a computer manufacturer. I helped train new techs. We had a 10 meg hard drive from which we removed the cover to show new techs how these drives worked. This was a time when one could still smoke at their desks. We used to flick cigarette ashes onto the spinning platters of the disk and watch the heads fling the ashes off the platters. That disk ran for the entire 2 years I worked at the factory and never once had a failure. Those were the fun days of computer repair.

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      I've actually found that the main obstacle to opening and then resealing a hard disk is the torque of the fasteners. Always try to establish what the torque is before opening. If you torque the screws back to what they were, it almost always works.

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

      Great, now your test HDD is addicted to Nicotine. ;-D
      BOOT FAILURE
      Insert a stogie to continue

    • @raphi_sch
      @raphi_sch 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      For a school project, I open and REPLACED the top cover with acrylics panel.
      The HDD worked fo all demo I did.
      It was a 6.4Gb IDE drive.

    • @nohesiloli
      @nohesiloli 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I am 27 years old, this is the coolest thing I have ever heard. I always used to open up my failing hdd's for fun when I was like 12 :p

    • @neilcoo
      @neilcoo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I doubt if that would work these days. The information density on the disk was a whole lot less then than it is now. (10 MB over a whole disk vs 10TB today). Basically a bit occupies like a few atoms now, so very easy to obscure with particles of crap.

  • @alexrosenberg_tube
    @alexrosenberg_tube 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    PenMac. They built so few of these. Amazing that you got your hands on one. This project shutting down is what eventually led to Graphing Calculator, which has it's own amazing story.

  • @donkimble
    @donkimble 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    This is the clearest, most concise old computer repair channel on TH-cam. It would have been easy to drag this out, but it’s just not his style. Respect.

  • @JTCF
    @JTCF 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    This is exactly the kind and level of tinkering around I love.

  • @FriesOfTheDead
    @FriesOfTheDead 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    It's rare that youtube recommends something new that is actually good. Today was one of those rare days.

    • @Psythik
      @Psythik 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Welcome to the channel

    • @csciacchitano
      @csciacchitano 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome. Consistently great stuff here.

    • @Toonrick12
      @Toonrick12 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If you're interested in Apple while Jobs was gone, you're in for a ride.

    • @warderjack
      @warderjack 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Welcome, he’s got a great backlog of videos like this

    • @BardicRJ
      @BardicRJ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      AYOOOOO!!!! Been watching him for years dude, nice to see you in here!

  • @tonycosta3302
    @tonycosta3302 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The sound of that Connor hard drive brought back some memories. I had the same drive in my MacSE.

  • @chriswareham
    @chriswareham 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Ooh, cliffhanger ending! Looking forward to learning more in a future video.

  • @mikeselectricstuff
    @mikeselectricstuff 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    When repairing a flex you should put a wire across, as a solder-only joint is extremely weak and will snap easily

  • @bigmclargehuge1170
    @bigmclargehuge1170 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Hey, you don't need a whole clean room to do hard drive repair safely, a laminar flow hood will do just fine. Especially for older drives, you can cheaply DIY one with a Corsi-Rosenthal box.

    • @danielktdoranie
      @danielktdoranie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yet his repair worked fine

    • @bigmclargehuge1170
      @bigmclargehuge1170 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@danielktdoranie Yes, thankfully! One can make sure the repairs stay working fine by whipping up a quick laminar flow station for cheap!

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I don't have any Corgi-Rosincore boxes. Will an Amazon one do?

    • @bigmclargehuge1170
      @bigmclargehuge1170 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@nickwallette6201 Sure, you can substitute the corgi with any terrier breed of similar size, and pine oil can be used in place of rosin.

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@bigmclargehuge1170 Haha :-D Thanks for playing. 👍

  • @XerShadowTail
    @XerShadowTail 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really love how you are very delicate and procedural with repairs for vintage electronics and not just doing whatever might work! Awesome work!

  • @cpeak66
    @cpeak66 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I consider myself quite an Apple geek and am rarely surprised by stuff but WOW, I'd never seen anything like this! Keep up the amazing work!!

  • @Collinormous
    @Collinormous 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I'm not even joking when I said I had a HDD in a 286 Samsung laptop that had the gasket fail and get sticky goo over the top platter. Deciding the drive was toast and I had nothing to loose I washed it...with water and soap...then blew dry it with compressed air. Put it back together and it literally booted up. Scandisk did show a few bad sectors but the drive worked enough to explore.

    • @superJK92
      @superJK92 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Luck 100

    • @LaskyLabs
      @LaskyLabs 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bruh

  • @eCoLL77
    @eCoLL77 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Great video - never seen anything like that before. Somehow I miss the sounds of hard drives but then I realise the speed and storage limitations from back then, and I'm happy we have SSDs now!

    • @cyberyogicowindler2448
      @cyberyogicowindler2448 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Harddrives die if dropped (else can last many decades). But SSD die already when left unpowered for few years (the more writes, the faster) because they are DRAM with 1 year refresh rate. So with any nowadays tablet or laptop it is unlikely to recover any of its data when found on an attic only 10 years later.

  • @AaronEiche
    @AaronEiche 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was absolutely fascinating, and I'm delighted you took the time to cover the repairs and solutions required. I'm eagerly awaiting part 2!

  • @guardianbob
    @guardianbob 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    there were a couple of times when i thought "holy shit he's actually going to do that". Respect for doing everything possible to fix it.

  • @piero_75
    @piero_75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You continue to make absolutely the most compelling and best edited repair videos I've seen on youtube.

  • @RobertBoerner
    @RobertBoerner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In my opinion, this was a beautifully done video. Excellent story telling combined with excellent detective work. I very much look forward to the next installment.

  • @Bushidounohana
    @Bushidounohana 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One wow after another in this go-round, great show as always, Colin! Such an incredible find and ninja-level repair mastery, such a pleasure to watch you work!

  • @markhuebbe
    @markhuebbe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love this deep dive. Thank you for all the work you do. This is one of the best vintage channels on TH-cam and I get excited every time a new episode comes out. 🙏

  • @surejan7787
    @surejan7787 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    For anyone wondering what this is, it is an early Apple PenLite prototype.

  • @OCDRex11
    @OCDRex11 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been watching you for years. I love every video and topic. This though, this was my favorite to date! I would have never seen this had you not done this work and jumped head first. Thanks for sharing with us all!

  • @toasTr0n
    @toasTr0n 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for having us along on your adventure. This must have taken months to plan, acquire the hardware, execute, shoot, write, and edit. I'm amazed at your level of detail and storytelling ability, and the subject matter is just enthralling. I'm glad this prototype found its way to you and I can't wait for the next video!

  • @signorelephant
    @signorelephant 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing work. Clear that you are a professional. Seeing the mess when you opened it up would probably scare off 80-90% of people immediately. A delicate procedure putting humpty dumpty back together again for sure.

  • @wojiaobill
    @wojiaobill 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Colin really demonstrated his knowledge with this one. Great video.

  • @D4RKV3NOM
    @D4RKV3NOM 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude this channel is great! the cinematography is crispy as hell and the quality of knowledge and content is of a high calibre, really good stuff dude!

  • @termiterasin
    @termiterasin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing process restoring and documenting retro hardware.

  • @schvabek
    @schvabek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do electronic repairs as a hobby on my channel, so I can’t tell you how many times projects like this go wrong, how time and labour intensive and nerve wracking they can be. Sourcing parts (especially for a freaking prototype tablet!!!), troubleshooting, brainstorming ideas… Very impressive, and the video itself is awesome! Respect! ❤

  • @Ojisan642
    @Ojisan642 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was the most difficult repair and restoration I’ve ever seen. Amazing job!

  • @mac27collection
    @mac27collection 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's nice to see a flat flex cable repair be *successful* for once, seems that more often than not they go awry. Awesome episode, can't wait for next week's! And congrats on 400K 🥳

    • @Toonrick12
      @Toonrick12 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Next stop, 800k!

  • @viceroy7792
    @viceroy7792 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was great! I’d forgotten about those awesome old Powebooks! I had owned several of them including a Duo. I was so proud of that thing. Those were great days!!

  • @cheetosthrash
    @cheetosthrash 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    your repair videos are absolute golden. keep up the good work, man

  • @alexis0a
    @alexis0a 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is one of the most interesting videos about prototypes I've seen, you made an incredible work fixing it and archive all that you can, so great!

  • @veccio
    @veccio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *Bows down to your classic PowerBook logic board and spinner hard drive knowledge* Absolutely loved this! I was on the edge of my seat watching the flex cable repair, but figured if you had attempted it, you knew what you were doing. :)

  • @GrnArrow092
    @GrnArrow092 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing a working prototype of anything is an interesting thing to see. it shows where they are in the development stage and gives a few hints on what they were trying to accomplish. I can't help but think that this prototype is most likely an ancestor to the modern day iPad.

  • @edblor
    @edblor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As always Colin, great video, the nostalgia runs deep on this one too. Looking forward to the next one.

  • @hisnameisjoel
    @hisnameisjoel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't think I've ever been so invested in old hardware! Thank you so much for putting this all together

  • @JHMBB2
    @JHMBB2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude, dude...impressive work, simply amazing. I'm stunned. Thanks for sharing, the vids not over yet and I can't wait to see the end result but that flew cable fix was just insane. GAH a cliff hanger?!

  • @FinalBossOfCanada
    @FinalBossOfCanada 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ad Hoc is a term derived from Latin that means "For This" or "For This Situation." In the context of technology and computing, "Ad Hoc" refers to solutions that are developed specifically for a particular problem or task, without considering broader applications.

  • @ThePrimaFacie
    @ThePrimaFacie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a really well made video. Thanks for it. You could do a short on taking apart the HDD and blur the disks out cause that part was pretty interesting. So much work and problem solving done. I look forward to the next one.

  • @TheRealWulfderay
    @TheRealWulfderay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is simply amazing. I've repaired flat flex cable before, but I had never heard of the trick with the hard drive. Something to add to my toolbox!

  • @jdm19990
    @jdm19990 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is genuinely one of the most interesting videos I've seen in a long time, thanks Colin!

  • @GeekmanCA
    @GeekmanCA 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This reminds me a lot of the Modbook. For those who don't recall, a little over a decade ago, a company called Axiotron offered a kit (or service) to convert stock Core2Duo MacBooks into reversed touchscreen models just like this. They were fairly popular for a time.

  • @LightTheUnicorn
    @LightTheUnicorn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great work! I had a drive from an Amiga fail in the way you described, throwing sticky goop all over the platter and drive internals. It spun up, but there was no saving it as a working drive, never got a good read from it after that. What an amazing opportunity to work on such a machine!

  • @bobweiram6321
    @bobweiram6321 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I wonder why Apple doesn't have a gallery museum of all their products.

    • @thomasandrews9355
      @thomasandrews9355 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      i repair vintage macs professionally, internally they do in some departments.

    • @davewhite7182
      @davewhite7182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      They did and Jobs threw it out when he returned. He believed in the future and not the past.

    • @tatianaes3354
      @tatianaes3354 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davewhite7182just recently, Cook reiterated this stance

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I worked at RCA in the 80s at the lab that developed color TV among other things. They had an actual museum on site, it was very cool. Even the ceiling light panels were shaped like old TV screens. But it wasn’t usually open to the public.

    • @old_liquid
      @old_liquid 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@davewhite7182but without the past there is never be future. He is wrong.

  • @hidde1626
    @hidde1626 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome repairs. I respect that you had the courage to work on this prototype hardware.

  • @GameInterest
    @GameInterest 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I hope this video gets you to 1M. I love this.

  • @GreenAppelPie
    @GreenAppelPie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that actually quite interesting for a '92 device, portable computing was barely a thing back then.

  • @EvexiansVideoworks
    @EvexiansVideoworks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    AYO NO WAY.
    YOU HAVE ONE OF THEESE?!
    Edit: (NAH, SCREW THAT, HE HAS MORE THAN ONE!!!!)
    I thought theese were all just.. concepts!! I never knew they actually existed!
    Dude you matermind! How did you get this?!

  • @ronavitzur2167
    @ronavitzur2167 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Oooh! I worked on software for that. We were trying to build an iPad out of 1992 technology. Good times!

  • @Raptor50aus
    @Raptor50aus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the ride down memory lane when I worked for Apple in Australia. I do remember this prototype being talked about too.

  • @stuffwhy3501
    @stuffwhy3501 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible drive repair! Incredible work overall, but also that in particular

  • @Natervader13
    @Natervader13 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Your work continues to amaze.

  • @felixman9691
    @felixman9691 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I AM SO excited to learn the history of this thing in your next video. This was a fantastic project thanks so much for sharing!!! Inspirational

  • @iiidiy
    @iiidiy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great save on this one! Such a cool piece of Apple's history, and now I CAN'T WAIT for the next instalment! :)

  • @JacobHunt04
    @JacobHunt04 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dang, leaving us on a cliffhanger! I can't wait! I loved the hard drive segment. Joining patreon because of this one.

  • @insanelydigitalvids
    @insanelydigitalvids 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! Wow! Wow! What an incredible piece of Apple history. My thanks to Colin and the lucky owner that we could get to see this. 🙂

  • @Ultimatebubs
    @Ultimatebubs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    You are a bold man, trying to power on a one of a kind prototype like that without checking the system board for bad capacitors!

  • @LangleyNA
    @LangleyNA 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good, This Does Not Compute. I am excited for any following coverage you share. :)
    Your videos are always wonderful for me. :)

  • @GarthBeagle
    @GarthBeagle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dang, great work!! And congrats on hitting 400K subs 🎉

  • @markredf150
    @markredf150 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video! You really did have plenty of tricks up your sleeve and got results!

  • @rollingtroll
    @rollingtroll 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude. You are good at this stuff, it's honestly impressive.

  • @carsonwalker567
    @carsonwalker567 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loved seeing the work done on this cool machine!

  • @ethanlittle776
    @ethanlittle776 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these repairs. This is exactly what I like to do in my free time. Just did similar on a G3 Clamshell

  • @The_Traveling_Clown
    @The_Traveling_Clown 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    😢 I wish I had this man's troubleshooting skills. Might actually be able to fix my U-Matic player.

  • @SarahKchannel
    @SarahKchannel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    An old trick with stuck drives is, to put them in the freezer over night. The cold sort of deactivates the sticky mess and if heads stuck the thermal contraction loosens them up.

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would think a big danger here is that when you take it out of the freezer, it could get moisture condensation on any of the circuitry that’s not inside the sealed drive part.

  • @jerrymoreno1714
    @jerrymoreno1714 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such an interesting dive into all that could’ve been from Apple in the 90s. Another great video from an awesome channel!

  • @Toonrick12
    @Toonrick12 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So what is this? Some sort of Powerbook Duo that's a tablet? The date codes do line up to other experiments at the time from Dauphin and Samsung. The 16mhz 68030 is also a dead giveaway considering that aforementioned examples used similar speced 386's.

  • @mason.alexander32
    @mason.alexander32 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hahaha the alliteration at the end!

  • @richardbaker974
    @richardbaker974 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Best video this year from TDNC

  • @marcusdamberger
    @marcusdamberger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wonder if this was ever shown at any conventions such as WWDC or CES. Maybe only shown to people who had signed non-disclosure agreements, if so might explain why nothing written about it or any old video? It would be cool if there was a video like from Computer Chronicles from the time.

  • @pierickroux1891
    @pierickroux1891 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great episode ! I love the investigation you made to fix it ! Wow !

  • @Markimark151
    @Markimark151 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I miss when Apple used to design brand new hardware and not just play it safe, like they’re doing now! So glad at least you got the prototype to turn on!

    • @gatitosmiaomaio
      @gatitosmiaomaio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Apple M series is the most customization you have ever done, because everything is made by Apple and cooked of course by TMSC.

    • @Markimark151
      @Markimark151 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gatitosmiaomaio Apple themselves aren’t manufacturing the chip, they’re just using an ARM based processor for their Macs!

    • @SoulcatcherLucario
      @SoulcatcherLucario 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@Markimark151 yes but a heavily modified and incompatible with standard arm64 processors that ***apple*** designed. i'm not even an apple fan and even i know their silicon isn't off the shelf anymore

    • @Markimark151
      @Markimark151 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@SoulcatcherLucario it’s Apple designed system on a chip, to work with their walled garden system, but it’s not their own architecture.

    • @gatitosmiaomaio
      @gatitosmiaomaio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Markimark151 It is much better than at that time, since at that time it used a Motorola processor, something not of its own design. Now they design everything.

  • @Matichuu
    @Matichuu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your work. One can learn a lot of about maintenance and repair from this video alone.

  • @antcosentino27
    @antcosentino27 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i find it reassuring that even a company like apple has prototypes that are as hacked together as my own...
    and kudos to you for this video - some serious electronics and embedded system development skills here.

  • @mmkf
    @mmkf 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I would recommend ddrescue instead of dd if you are not sure about the condition of the drive.

  • @RetroMacCast
    @RetroMacCast 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is amazing! Congrats on getting your hands on such a treasure!

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison5951 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “If you like the video, I’d appreciate a thumbs up.”
    Oh, you got the thumbs up BEFORE I watched the video. Your content is awesome.

  • @howardbaldwin1226
    @howardbaldwin1226 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another fab video! Thank you for making these captivating stories.

  • @kerryhall
    @kerryhall 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude your hd fix is absolutely insane. Wow!

  • @10p6
    @10p6 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Around the same time Atari was working on the 'ST Pad'. Same external developer maybe?

  • @veitjacob9764
    @veitjacob9764 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was very interesting and your skills are impressive!😮

  • @pcease
    @pcease 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was fully invested in this repair attempt

  • @woodengamer
    @woodengamer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember seeing this, glad you got so far with it!

  • @Derpy1969
    @Derpy1969 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent use of ancient product knowledge to glean design clues to restore functionality.

  • @JTCF
    @JTCF 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    A spinning hard drive in a handheld device sounds crazy, especially with hard drive of this size! I've known that some ipods have miniature hard drives instead of anything solid-state, but this thing just looks like a beheaded laptop.

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I carried an iPod Video with a 60GB HDD in my pocket for a few years, playing music while I walked around and whatnot. The drive in this video is about twice the size of that one.

    • @rpst39
      @rpst39 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nickwallette6201 I have been using a 30GB iPod video for the past 3 years, sometimes when I am on my bike. Works fine with 0 reallocations.

    • @duncan-rmi
      @duncan-rmi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I still have a classic 160 with its 2.5" hdd; I thought about putting a flash drive in it once, but the noise it makes is part of the haptic experience of using it.

    • @gorgorgonzales3090
      @gorgorgonzales3090 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nothing crazy about that... that's how it was done most part of my life, worked fine for the time beeing...

    • @cyberyogicowindler2448
      @cyberyogicowindler2448 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Harddrives die if dropped (else can last many decades). But SSD die already when left unpowered for few years (the more writes, the faster) because they are DRAM with 1 year refresh rate. So with any nowadays tablet or laptop it is unlikely to recover any of its data when found on an attic only 10 years later.

  • @EricGranata
    @EricGranata 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh man! Eagerly awaiting part 2!

  • @duncan-rmi
    @duncan-rmi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    those bendy pcb cables crop up a lot in portable video gear from around that time, & I had to mend loads in sony vx-1000 dv camcorders. nice work. >looks at ipad< we've come a long way.

    • @duncan-rmi
      @duncan-rmi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      one of the small flotilla of ipad minis that my kids use- I've repaired it six times. each time I pry the shattered glass off another busted digitiser, I write the date on the shielding plate underneath. 😂

  • @justherefortalking
    @justherefortalking 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was such a welcome respite from all the computex coverage.

  • @teamredstudio7012
    @teamredstudio7012 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm very glad you used DD to create a copy! It makes a copy of every single byte on the disk so it is the perfect way to actually backup a hard drive. If a drive has hard bad sectors, ddrescue can create a copy despite I/O errors by skipping the bad sectors first instead of retrying and only trying to read them again after having the rest ofthe data copied. I was scared that you are letting the OS mount the hard drive without forcing it to mount new drives under read only mode because the OS might do some writes automatically when mounting a disk in read write.

  • @sashakoshka
    @sashakoshka 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i did not expect to see someone repairing a hard drive like that bravo

  • @ConsolesRetro
    @ConsolesRetro 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Machine qui amène à l’inspiration 😄 (après un « sofa wine » ^^)… Un travail de qualité, une voix off nette sans superflu tout comme le travail effectué sur cette « drôle de bête »! Merci pour le partage et du temps consacré pour monter vos vidéos… 👍

  • @gdutfulkbhh7537
    @gdutfulkbhh7537 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Showing off some great skills there. Very informative - thank you.

  • @godofbiscuitssf
    @godofbiscuitssf หลายเดือนก่อน

    Code name Snoopy / Blue Jewel, if I remember correctly. Saw one of those in 1993. It was a great idea for the time: use it as a tablet when not docked, slide it into a Powerbook Duo Dock and bam! a full desktop computer.

  • @soviut303
    @soviut303 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a crazy mechanical issue. I've never seen a hard drive repair like that.

  • @juanmacias5922
    @juanmacias5922 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing! What a fun video, great job fixing a rare prototype. :D

  • @skieinc
    @skieinc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now that's what I call quality content!

  • @NiallMurphy
    @NiallMurphy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a masterwork.

  • @grudgnor
    @grudgnor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was your best video yet!