Mending PowerBook 150 hinge (and performing a batteryectomy)
Channel: Poking Technology
Date: 2020-10-18

In which yr hmbl svt performs some necessary maintainance on a 1994 Apple PowerBook 150, one of their 68000 range of laptops (running MacOS). This was recently acquired from a non-Ebay Swiss auction site and turned out to be damaged, with a broken screen hinge, requiring quite a lot of fiddling and epoxy to repair. I also removed the internal battery which was starting to go fluffy.

Sadly, the screen is also faulty, with a single dead scanline across the middle. This was apparently common in these machines and I know of no way to fix it without replacing the screen entirely (if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know!)