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This is a peculiar philosophy that I have a hard time relating to --- why is replacing a connector "alteration" while replacing a board in the overall cube is not? Usage and time cause wear. I also have what may be some alarming news about the historic 47 uF surface-mount and 220 uF...

If we were anywhere near each other (I'm in the UK), I could help you out.

Is it necessary to replace the entire backplane for the sake of one missing pin in one connector? If there is someone near you with good equipment for soldering and desoldering, then the NeXTbus connector is a standard DIN 41612 connector so far as I know, and replacements should be easy to...

I know, they used to be like tribbles almost. I think that old feeling of ubiquity is what's keeping me from gritting my teeth and paying the eBay price.

Let's say you have an AAUI accessory (e.g. a 10BASE-T transceiver/MAU) that you want to plug into a regular AUI port. Is it possible? Wikipedia says yes. But last night I proved it to myself: Still works with AAUI even while being hacked up this way. This specific adaptation is handy...

It doesn't. The letters are flush.

I find this kind of casual age-based dismissal unfortunately common in the retrocomputing community, even now. I'm a bit older than those age categories, but I've been part of the scene since making a webpage about the Apple Lisa in 1994, and back then I got my fair share of aspersions cast once...

The project was a success, and if I recall correctly, some of the original Daydream developers pitched in to help see it through. The result was called "Darkmatter", and that search term should help get you to the resources and instructions you need.