Last time I tried to use known working IDE drives from newer PBs in my 150s I was getting SadMacs. I had a bootable floppy made up and they would boot from the floppy with the orig…

... So can I just format it with one of the programs on the utilities disk or can I format it with transmac from my PC? I just might make a file server out of it for some other mac…

This is good info on powerbooks. I have a 150 and soon I'm going to have a 145b and some 100s that I think just need an os. I want to know how hard it is to put a new hard drive in…

Wow.... Wanna give one now? No, really, I'll come get it

Snagged a Q950 this morning for free, 90MB RAM, 3 HDs but the largest is only 1GB. The unit is in very good condition. Also snagged a Supermac GDM-1950 STD 9790 Trinitron 19" Colo…

I had another go at the cables in the PB145 tonight, paying particular attention to the display cable that connects to the inverter board, adjacent to the keyboard cables exposed w…

$500.00CAD working. I did not realize how big they were. Shipping would be something too.

So uh... did you ask how much for one of the Lisa's?

13 Lisas?!?!? That's insane!

Broke down and bought this card from ebay. There was no shipping costs as he lives 5 minutes from me. I amlooking for thedriver/ software for it. It may be just a extention. The …

Nice haul and some great Powerbook info in this thread.

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs) Click to expand…

The Macintosh Performa 600 (aka Macintosh IIvi) was a bit of a crippled machine. They reused many aged components from older machines, most notably the memory and SCSI controllers.…

My PowerBook 165 (not 165c, my B&W 165) does kinda the same thing. The screen is completely dark on the bottom, and the slightest movement of the contrast switch makes the…

The cables have been checked, and the contacts lightly cleaned, and there is happily a considerably better display now. There remains some flickering, but no really bad multi-colou…

Ghosting and "messing up" could be the result of a bad cable or bad video controller. Fading in and out could be a failing backlight or inverter... I'd check the cables first, of…

Very nice!

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs); the 145 has some …

A "local" guy (meaning: within 24 hours drive, and in the same country...) has made me an offer I can't refuse for my non-working A4000. So I have a couple $ to spend upgrading my…

The green screen is fairly logical, as Amiga's won't start without ChipRAM The 4000 doesn't need a battery to work, mine's never had one (I got the guy I bought it off to remov…

Grumble. No luck getting any life out of this thing (despite all the helpful guys here and on other forums). She's parts I'm afraid. I'll just have to stick with my 1200 for the ti…

Hehe, yes, I already have some too (and absolutely loads of NT 4 Workstations!), but you can never have too many But if it was a copy of Windows Me, now that would be something!…

Apple stickers would excite you more than a 17 gig SCSI HDD or a copy of AppleShare Server 3? :O Click to expand... Or a real, bona-fide copy of Windows 95?! :O Click to e…

Apple stickers would excite you more than a 17 gig SCSI HDD or a copy of AppleShare Server 3? :O Click to expand... For about the first five minutes, yes After that, then.…

The Color Classic is an interesting machine. Yours has pretty much the same specs that mine had, only mine had an Apple IIe card in the PDS slot and it ran an English System 7. …