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Today I managed to take apart the iBook and remove the internal hard disk. These things are certainly built to tight specifications, and are somewhat tedious to disassemble. But I’ve done it before, and did it again this last time.
After installing the hard drive in an external firewire enclosure, I hooked it up [...]

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The one perk of where I work is that we’re in the midst of a computer replacement cycle. This means that a lot of older computers are being marked as no longer needed and are being recycled.
Fortunately, there are a few older Macs in this mix, and they are fair game. [...]

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The iBook is still unusable: it still refuses to boot into target disk mode, and thus is in a bit of a coma (to anthropomorphize the situation). It’s very sad, and very frustrating.
What I plan on doing is extricating the iBook’s internal hard drive and transplanting it into an external firewire enclosure that will [...]

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It was bound to happen at some point. My old, trusty iBook, bought just prior to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Games, has finally reached a turning point.
Its trackpad and mouse button haven’t worked for some time (save for a brief respite when the ribbon cable mount was soldered back on to [...]

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I’m glad that the drive to Connecticut was uneventful, because this afternoon I discovered that my right-rear tire was completely flat. The culprit: a roofing nail that must’ve been encountered yesterday morning when the car was borrowed to make a Dunkin Donuts run (the all-wheel drive came in handy getting back up a snow-covered [...]

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Back in Connecticut for Thanksgiving at sprite’s parents’ place. They call this place “Turkey Ridge” for a reason - just look at this young turkey spreading its wings this morning! We counted over 30 turkeys on the grounds today - a nice group. I took some good shots, a few of which [...]

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