This more or less follows up one of these strands....
I happen to have a 540c which is falling apart so badly plastics-wise that it is basically irredeemable (it was a unit that I gave to a mentally handicapped man to use - he got three years out of it, and it really, really shows); a spare/dying 280c logic board (due to obvious capacitor leakage, which can hopefully be fixed); a selection of Duo plastics from two parts machines; and a smashed 2300c lcd screen, but with intact plastics. And now I find, courtesy of Charles Moore on LEM (bless his heart):
"The 2300c had ... the same 9.5" active matrix unit used in the PowerBook 540c ...."
I did not know that bit until this moment about the 540c and the 2300c. I hope he's right, because I now propose to give some attention to these unused parts and see if the 540c/2300c screen will run off a 280c logic board. It'll take a week or two to do, as I must take some time to solder and to wash and dry the logic board, etc., but I will report back from "the lab" when the results are in.
I happen to have a 540c which is falling apart so badly plastics-wise that it is basically irredeemable (it was a unit that I gave to a mentally handicapped man to use - he got three years out of it, and it really, really shows); a spare/dying 280c logic board (due to obvious capacitor leakage, which can hopefully be fixed); a selection of Duo plastics from two parts machines; and a smashed 2300c lcd screen, but with intact plastics. And now I find, courtesy of Charles Moore on LEM (bless his heart):
"The 2300c had ... the same 9.5" active matrix unit used in the PowerBook 540c ...."
I did not know that bit until this moment about the 540c and the 2300c. I hope he's right, because I now propose to give some attention to these unused parts and see if the 540c/2300c screen will run off a 280c logic board. It'll take a week or two to do, as I must take some time to solder and to wash and dry the logic board, etc., but I will report back from "the lab" when the results are in.