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Macintosh 128K Teardown

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Removing a few screws allows us to take a peek inside the keyboard.

But we don't get much farther than that. Each mechanical button is soldered to the board. So unless you want 12 steps of us busting off the plastic keys...

Cult of Mac adds: The keyboard cable used a standard RJ9 telephone handset connector, but the pin wiring was different. This means existing phone cords wouldn't work as a substitute.

The unholy union of phone and computer was never seen again.

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