I had a feeling it would come down to caps.
I've been running the 140 all evening and it's been consistently showing a good picture. There's some ghosting, but this is a passive matrix display so it's somewhat to be expected. There haven't been any issues aside from having to readjust the contrast periodically.
Of course, I'll have to see how it checks out tomorrow when I thrust it into a tutoring session. I prepared backup plans just in case.
I managed to get around the non-working hard drive by putting 7.0.1 on a RAM disk. The system copies at startup and runs from there, freeing the floppy drive so I can run my programs from there. Thankfully, I'm not using any program larger than 1MB in size, so it's not really an issue (although load times can be a bit sluggish).
All I have to do between now and then is give it a bit of a cleaning. This guy came to me in good shape, but there's some sticker residue on the case that I want to get rid of.
For the short-term, this should work as a tutoring laptop. I may pick up another PowerBook as a backup or get that 145 on its feet (probably with the 150's old disk drive) so I can send this one to be re-capped. (If I'm getting another PowerBook, I'm really not concerned about hard drives working or not although I find the Disk Tools mini install of 7.0.1 superior to 7.1, where I had problems with the sound driver not loading; the new PB would have to be a 140, 145, 145B, or 170 since the other 1xx models need 7.1 or higher).
I've been running the 140 all evening and it's been consistently showing a good picture. There's some ghosting, but this is a passive matrix display so it's somewhat to be expected. There haven't been any issues aside from having to readjust the contrast periodically.
Of course, I'll have to see how it checks out tomorrow when I thrust it into a tutoring session. I prepared backup plans just in case.
I managed to get around the non-working hard drive by putting 7.0.1 on a RAM disk. The system copies at startup and runs from there, freeing the floppy drive so I can run my programs from there. Thankfully, I'm not using any program larger than 1MB in size, so it's not really an issue (although load times can be a bit sluggish).
All I have to do between now and then is give it a bit of a cleaning. This guy came to me in good shape, but there's some sticker residue on the case that I want to get rid of.
For the short-term, this should work as a tutoring laptop. I may pick up another PowerBook as a backup or get that 145 on its feet (probably with the 150's old disk drive) so I can send this one to be re-capped. (If I'm getting another PowerBook, I'm really not concerned about hard drives working or not although I find the Disk Tools mini install of 7.0.1 superior to 7.1, where I had problems with the sound driver not loading; the new PB would have to be a 140, 145, 145B, or 170 since the other 1xx models need 7.1 or higher).