>>>Aside from opening up a laptop to put in memory or a new drive, I don't fiddle with hardware. I find someone qualified. :)
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>That was the first lesson many of us learned trying to solder in a chip to allow lower case on the TRS-80, after which the screen stayed dark. Cost twice as much to remedy.
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>The second lesson was that Tandy saved little more than a buck with its uppercase font chip. Cost $59 to have the upper/lower case variant retrofitted unless you were so silly as to try yourself, in which case $150- at a time when you could buy a running car for $400.

Sadly, I remember the days of the Trash-80. But I don't recall the lower case/upper case thing.

I'll bet if we had a hardware certification test on the UT, I'd score the lowest. A few weeks ago I bought a nice compact charging stand for my iPhone. To my surprise it didn't come assembled. It was maybe 10 pieces. It took me an hour and I didn't do it perfectly. My wife took it apart and put it together (correctly) in about 10 minutes.