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ha macintosh powerbook

ha macintosh powerbook OS 9 16 posts Jan 15, 2008 — Jan 16, 2008

#1 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:39

haha! i'm posting this message from my powerbook 1400 computer running MacOS9.1 with a wireless card

i just wanted to say somthing cus i think its cool.

#2 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:42

Kick'n! I loved the PowerPC PowerBooks. Although I have never personally owned one, i got to play with my cousin's 3400, which he then upgraded to the PowerBook 3500 (First G3. basically a 3400 w/ a G3 CPU)

#3 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:45

Bah! You guys are nuts! The Powerbooks stopped being cool when the 190 was released.

All hail the 170! The greatest Powerbook EVER!

#4 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:45

However it is cool that you're posting wirelessly from your 1400. I can't do that from my 170.

#5 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:48

haha cool, i was thinking abotu getting a larger HDD (like 30GB area?) and a Cresendo PBG3 400MHz upgrade for this powerbook, i used the CDROM drive from a dead iMac and put it in the encasement for the dead CDROM drive module and now i have a working 24x CDROM drive on my PB1400 woohoo ^_^

the wifi card i'm useing is a Dell TrueMobile 1150 PC Card, useing the ORiNOCO 7.2 Drivers for Mac OS 9. i replaced its dead 2.1GB hard drive with a 4.5GB drive and it works happly online.

#6 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 05:56

I want that WiFi card.

#7 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 07:05

I want that WiFi card.

Any reason in particular? It's (just) a rebadged Orinoco...

#8 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 07:12

its an ORiNOCO Gold Edition relabled card. it works with any non-CArdBus compliant macintosh with a PCMCIA slot.

#9 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 07:19

It also works in CardBus compliant PowerBooks. In fact, it works in all PowerBooks except 500 series 'Books with Rev A or Rev B PCMCIA card modules.

Peace,

Drew

#10 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 07:27

yeah but if your gonna run a cardbus mac i would go the direction of a linksys wireless G card cus its just as stable but alot faster.

#11 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 11:39

wifi-G doesn't work in pre-OSX, does it?

#12 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 17:58

wifi-G doesn't work in pre-OSX, does it?

theroreticly if you have a cardbus mac under os9 you should be able to use the airport software to operate a cardbus wifi card

#13 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 19:26

I've got one of those Orinoco Gold cards in my 1400. It's great for wireless internetting under System 7!

#14 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 23:57

I want that WiFi card.

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Any reason in particular? It's (just) a rebadged Orinoco...

Because when you live in rural Australia, and don't have access to eBay, 16 bit PCMCIA WiFi cards of any sort are ultra-rare. I've been chasing one for two years now and my quest has still been unsuccessful. It seems that around here, I can get all the CardBus cards I want, but there are no 16 bit cards to be found, of any sort.

#15 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - 01:04

So you're not so much interested in that *particular* card as you are *any* Orinoco card. I was wondering if you had a Dell fetish or some such thing, hence the question.

#16 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - 02:43

wifi-G doesn't work in pre-OSX, does it?

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theroreticly if you have a cardbus mac under os9 you should be able to use the airport software to operate a cardbus wifi card

Nope. 802.11g is not supported in OS 9 at all (even with AirPort and Broadcom based 802.11g cards).

Peace,

Drew