It looks like it will be a bit longer before I clean the board. I thought about going in to work to do it today but it looks like we're in a blizzard now here on the US east coast…

I really enjoyed reading your post about the reasons that you settled on buying a IIci. Back in the day, I felt that the IIci was the pick of the Mac product line. It was way out…

I have a dead 500mhz Sawtooth. It has been sitting for awhile down in the basement. It quit one day , after a few attempts to revive it, it went to the basement. A motherboard f…

I have a 22" 1680x1050 LCD monitor hooked up to my B&W G3 that has been chugging along fine at that resolution for quite a while now. All of a sudden, after a fresh reboot …

We've got similar mac collecting tastes, I see...I have 6 PB 1400s, 2 5300s, one Pismo 400/40/512k, 2 old PB 150s, a Classic II, the on life support 3400...and several PCs too, ala…

Not particularly serious. The bus speed is the same, so no fiddling with SMT resistors/jumpers. From memory, the VRM coil has to be bent out of the way, and an adapter plate made…

Well, that got my attention. Can a dual G54/500MHz processor go in a Cube without serious surgery?

Interesting...pooh, I hope it's not the VRAM but we shall see. If it's a dead duck, I'll repost...get the parts somewhere useful. I expect this is a 180mhz. because it's only comi…

Yes, it was AU$5 +pp. I'll get around to uploading them sometime soon

PowerBook 100 Series Service Training Video (to add to the 200 and 500 series for uploading) Click to expand... It seems luck is on Macintosh liberation's side; hopefully you p…

I have a PB 3400c with the same issue. The screen generally will not light up but when it does, the screen is all messed, then the unit crashes. The cable and everything in the …

Below is the last few weeks of scores from evilbay. In addition to these, when I went to pick up some of the items from a local seller, I also bought the following: Quadra 700, m…

I'm getting a Hooper (PB 3400c) in a couple of days - decided to try my hand at restoring one, since I've done a lot of work on 5300's. The one I bought (for $2 plus shipping) has …

I enjoyed your lengthy post about the history of/ your history with the machine, which mirrors my own experience (including references to some of the subsequent hardware purchased,…

My understanding is that water was used in the factory for cleaning the boards after assembly, and so that it has to be reasonably safe to use water still. Most likely there will b…

I've decided how I am going to clean the motherboard. I'm going to use Alconox. From their website: (Notice it mentions circuit boards!) http://www.alconox.com/static/section_to…

noidentity, I was able to download the driver today. It is working great on my TT128 at 1680x1050. Thanks again, Mike

OS 9 on my 1.25GHz MDD dual G4 screams, even though it is effectively only using one CPU under OS 9.

Did the 1.42s come as FW400? I've only seen the 1.25s as FW400, though I imagine you could just get the 1.42 out of one of the FW800s and bolt it in. Click to expand... In my c…

My setup works fine on that B&W, I have a Radeon video card in the 66mhz PCI slot (the model with the fan before they started naming them 7000 and took out T&L). I …

home.ripway.com is timing out when I try to download the driver. I will try again tomorrow. Thanks, Mike

OK, here is the promised story: I purchased my first Mac, a IIci in November 1990. I had been using IBM PCs (XTs and ATs) for the 5 years prior that I spent as a student at The O…

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... No, I ran out. Can I have some of yours? Click to expand... Sure you need some vicodin?

It should say on the fan I would expect it to be 12V dc thanx for the comments michael

It can be replaced, but you will have to open the power supply to do it, obiously you should have it unplugged, but there's some hefty filter capacitors on the AC side that can pac…