If you have a Walmart near you, they have a Hypertough 44 piece precision bit set with an extender that works great on compact macs, and it's cheap....
IDE/ATA is basically the ISA bus with some buffers. Early disk controllers had little in the way of fault detection and misbehaving hard drives could...
The plastic base is more of a pin carrier than structural support, as you've found out breaking a pin off. Most of the structural support comes from...
The first "brrrrt" is the protected mode floppy driver loading. The subsequent "chuk chuk chuk" sound is Windows trying to find a file on the drive....
Not sure off hand, but they're usually pretty standardized sizes. I don't keep many X2 capacitors around because they don't go bad that often, and I...
The rust is coming from the legs of the ICs, which are some form of steel. Not all ICs have steel legs, but quite a number of them do. You can put a...
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