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Cross Compatible CRT?
It would just be such a waste to use something so good as a training machine that you're probably going to wreck - I'd rather send it to one of you guys who would be able to fix it properly and enjoy it than have to live with the fact that I killed it. At least if I keep it then one day I can hope I might be able to get it going 
And as I said, I don't have the parts it would need so opening it up wouldn't fix it anyway. At least it's a pretty paperweight though
And as I said, I don't have the parts it would need so opening it up wouldn't fix it anyway. At least it's a pretty paperweight though I just got a Powerbook 150 that was DOA and managed to get it working just by fiddling with the cable connectors inside. It needs an LCD screen and a battery, but everything else seems to work. I probably would have sold it on as a parts only machine and never knew it was so easy to fix if I hadn't opened it up and tried. I'm now waiting for another DOA Powerbook with the parts I need to come along to have a working machine with a few spare parts and they are common and cheap on ebay.Except that you do have a lot to lose and not a lot to gain, at least if you're like me ie not a hardware wizard - if I opened my Duo 230 I would just make things worse by breaking more of it, not being able to get it back together etc!"The thing is broken, so why not OPEN it? Grab a screwdriver, you've got nothing to lose". [}
That's how I got started on laptops too - an "as is" dead 1400 that came back to life as soon as I connected the keyboard and trackpad ribbons, put in a disk and connected a power supply. I booted it off a SCSI CDROM for first test.
If you go slowly and don't use force, it's really hard to break *anything* so don't worry about opening up that Duo!
The original post in this thread referred to an eBay auction for a 512K with a dead display. The seller told me it had a 400K drive in it, so I decided to bid, and got it for $1. (I also got a working 400K external for $3 from the same seller.) Anyway I just plugged it in - nice beep, but no display as reported. The fix? All I had to do was turn up the brightness! [
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p.s. it came with one of the original keyboards too - no numeric keypad.
] ]'>p.s. it came with one of the original keyboards too - no numeric keypad.
Do you mind if we make a wax model of you, and stick pins into it?
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Haha, it was brightness? Wow!
Good to see you managed to get it Kallikak. I chose not to after certain "recent events" came up.
Good to see you managed to get it Kallikak. I chose not to after certain "recent events" came up.