
The portable copying machine looks interesting
Is the NFT craze dead yet? Right, good, then we can return to a cool auction world where the well-heeled can get their mitts on rather more tangible relics from tech history. Except Christie's "Science and Natural History" auction isn't just looking at tech history, it's looking at all of history. Literally all of it. We're …
Some interesting geological stuff there, but way more expensive than I'd pay. But photos? Why? Most are already published and freely available... if (e.g.) Buzz Aldrin's visor were offered there rather than the photo, I may be interested. Nice fossils, though.
Also: THE TOE OF AN ANKYLOSAURUS. Nah. I want at least the ankle of an ankylosaurus, or the toe of a toeasaurus. The toe of an ankylosaurus is just wrong.
---> check the pockets for any forgotten fossils.
The tool was called a "Mac Cracker" - its basicaly a long torx drive with a 150/200mm shaft.
Something like a T9/T10 or maybe even a T15.
The last one I fixed (psu gone bang - 110V version pluged into 220V - whoops), well it was in the early 90's and bought over to the uk by a left-pondian. Changed the link over to 220V as well.
I used one of those Macs in the early 1990's in an attempt to do what we called "Desktop Publishing" at the time, but they were awful and if we needed to do anything really useful we used film and cut masks from rubylith, like the gods intended.
We did assume they were the future though. What we didn't count on was every kid coming out of school deciding they were going to be a "designer".
Pretty quickly the wages on offer crashed and we all found other work.