On the Newton? I doubt it. Japanese is somewhat possible but even then the support isn't great. You'd have better luck turning off HWR and just letting it clean up what you draw.

I can't believe there'd be ingest on this list, and my research (years ago) never led me to conclude it's necessarily possible... By this I meant handwriting recognition sorry. A…

Is this a power board problem? Because if so I'd probably like to try and get my money back on the replacement board.

Personally, I like the look and feel of the 1400c. But i also like the sound of the 3400c.  But I also have more Duos than I know what to do with. All color.  If I were faced in …

If your 3400 works, for the love of all things holy, check the PRAM battery and if it's old get it out of there...

Dump the 1400c IMO. That's the easiest one to pick back up if you ever wanted to. You've got the 3400c for the speed demon, the other one can be less practical, and I'd keep that D…

Pending my giving away of a 165c, I have three PowerBook's left, and I have to get rid of at least one system for space reasons. PowerBook 3400c/200 with CD-ROM and Floppy module…

I took some voltage measurements, though not very systematically.  On the logic board, I measured between ~1 and 3.5 volts (and nothing in places).  On the power board, I got a ran…

OK well that is interesting. Would still really appreciate your post... I was wrong: my 5300c powers on without PRAM battery with the new power boats... which may not speak to w…

Batteries made no difference either way in my cases.

And let me also ask this: my 5300c had a dead PRAM battery. It usually starts fine. Initially, I thought I had noticed that it would not start at all without the dead battery c…

I'd be really appreciative if you could send me a link to the topic. Until I'm sure a power board is working correctly, I'm not sure how much else I can do/diagnose.

There was a P4 toshiba laptop designed the same way, the DC-DC board was bolted on with one of these, and it always caused problems

The whining of the power board I talked about on the other recent 3400 thread. The caps are bad. Replace the 2 caps and that should disappear. The pop and non screen come on has…

I'm sure this isn't totally new, but I'll describe the chain of events specific to this PB. I bought it on eBay untested.  There wasn't that much corrosion on the board.  I remove…

If you get one of these shipped it's a good idea to reseat everything anyway, even if it is screwed/latched down.

Ya, it is a piss-poor connector for sure. I thought the same thing after install, that a solid bump would free it.

It's that lousy connector. I have a Gateway Solo 9200 (PII@266MHz) which all the boards (Video, I/O, CPU, HD, Power) are sandwiched together by these connectors. It took a nasty fa…

That's definitely strange! I wonder if any other Macs have done something similar, and if so how many...

Yup, about mid-way. I would assume this could happen with an upgrade card when a driver loads. But odd on stock hardware. So not sure. It detected the defect and did not use the RA…

It said something about detecting a hardware defect later in the startup process? I'm intrigued now... how did it say it?

Well after reseating it a few times it now works. Looks like my base RAM is 16MB and the chip is 8MB for 24 total. Well back on the shelf I guess.

Im going to assume there is some defect with the RAM card I installed. But what threw me off is that it boots then halfway through startup it pauses to say something about a memory…

     I'm not sure of the APN although that description sounds right. Mine just says AMP Rev. 2.      And was your comment about your logic boards in response to the photos I poste…

Power board hasn't arrived yet. I also forgot to take before pictures, but this is after the first phase of cleaning. There was corrosion on the board under the PCMIA enclosure …