04-16-2007, 05:27 PM
[quote tenders]>I dunno about this one. You must admit that didn't *help* consumers open their Macs considering that most other $2000 PC hardware at the time used Phillips screws. The HEADS of the Mac Plus retaining screws most certainly were standard Torx (and are used on lots of other things, including car taillight lenses) but at least two of those screws sat at the bottom of a deep, narrow tunnel. Any ordinary driver was both too short and too fat to fit down there. The TOOL to open the Plus was a bizarre piece of hex-sided metal rod, 12 inches long, with a handle twisted in the shape of a "T"...you can't tell me that's a standard part.
Not true TenderVittles.
The "Computer Tool Kit" I purchased in 1980 for $9.50 had six TORX bits of varying sizes, they fit onto a magnetized handle about six inches long, it also came with a six inch extension, put together the handle, extension, and TORX bit an the Mac was apart in seconds! With the help of a 12" steel ruler from the drafting department.
I remember that company that sold the $25 Mac Case Cracker Kit, it was the same company that in 1986 starting selling the $30 "ADB Extender" cable, it was the same gray six foot S-Video cable extender I would buy in Studio City for five bucks. Four bucks per if you bought a ten pack!
You see ChickenTenders, where you saw " two of those screws sat at the bottom of a deep, narrow tunnel", I saw the opportunity to dive into my toolkit!
You gotta open your eyes, as well as your mind Tenderlee!
BGnR
Compaq used TORX screws way before Apple.
Not true TenderVittles.
The "Computer Tool Kit" I purchased in 1980 for $9.50 had six TORX bits of varying sizes, they fit onto a magnetized handle about six inches long, it also came with a six inch extension, put together the handle, extension, and TORX bit an the Mac was apart in seconds! With the help of a 12" steel ruler from the drafting department.
I remember that company that sold the $25 Mac Case Cracker Kit, it was the same company that in 1986 starting selling the $30 "ADB Extender" cable, it was the same gray six foot S-Video cable extender I would buy in Studio City for five bucks. Four bucks per if you bought a ten pack!
You see ChickenTenders, where you saw " two of those screws sat at the bottom of a deep, narrow tunnel", I saw the opportunity to dive into my toolkit!
You gotta open your eyes, as well as your mind Tenderlee!
BGnR
Compaq used TORX screws way before Apple.