Hi, The drive does connect to the floppy drive. It also has connects to the serial or printer port. However although I can mount it i am unable to boot from it (even when I connec…

Holy shite dude! Nice score!

Picked up a PowerMac 9500/132 for free in the Quokka (local free for sale paper). Power supply was dead but the machine was loaded! Had more than 300MB of RAM (3 x 64MB chips plu…

The PB140 is probably easily fixed. The 1xx series PBs are infamous for somewhat flaky LCD connector behavior. Often, it suffices simply to pull out the flex cable, and then reinse…

PowerBook 140 Newton MessagePad (original model) Huge box of floppies Traded an AirPort card. Met him in a Fry's parking lot. Unfortunately, either everything broke after he ga…

Yeah...a 1400/G3 would have no problems at all with the WWW...i was referring to PB1400s which still have a 603e (mine does)

My notes on an early Paradise drive (taken from contemporary reports) are provided below. The one described by the OP sounds similar, but seems to use the floppy rather than serial…

Although it's now 18mo. since last I did so, and the times they have a-changed, a PB1400/400MHz/64MB was still adequate—under Mozilla 1.0.2 (using a RAM Disk for browser cache) and…

Indeed...on a 1400/117 with little RAM, i probably wouldn't go much further than...8.1. However, a 1400 with a quick enough CPU (either a 166 or a G3) and enough RAM can easily han…

I remember reading a report about someone's experiences and benchmarking of various systems on the 1400 and the general consensus was that System 7.6 was the best compromise of spe…

I thought it said 117mhz, but I'd have to check to be sure ... Click to expand... It will not matter greatly before you wish to upgrade the CPU or the RAM, but just be aware th…

Well, should the mystery D shaped slot be .71 inches or 18 mm wide with a PCB 14 contact finger tab, it's likely the video card output connector to an external adaptor cable made b…

MacDan says they'll take any standard laptop optical drive [] ]'> Click to expand... And he is very much-so correct, provided that you're running OS X. (or OS 9 if you…

What do you mean? I installed 9.1 on my 1400, and it just installed, no problems at all ... Click to expand... Perfectly true. A 1400 with enough RAM can install, boot from an…

Ayup, that'd be a video card. The ethernet cards had a standard RJ-45 port on the board, rather than on a cable like what PCMCIA cards have, so its definately video, not ethernet.

actually I made a mistake, the harddrive does not connect to the SCSI port, it connects to the floppy port!! Just like an HD SC20. Click to expand... The HD20 and the HD SC20 a…

Well, should the mystery D shaped slot be .71 inches or 18 mm wide with a PCB 14 contact finger tab, it's likely the video card output connector to an external adaptor cable made b…

It was probably originally made for an early Mac. The floppy port was the only way to connect a hard drive pre- SCSI.

Nice. Is it a 117mhz or 133mhz? Click to expand... I thought it said 117mhz, but I'd have to check to be sure. Since I already have a couple SCSI Zip drives laying around, I'…

actually I made a mistake, the harddrive does not connect to the SCSI port, it connects to the floppy port!! Just like an HD SC20. I thought nobody else had made floppy drive hard…

OS 9.1 is possible, but takes some hoodwinking of the NuBus architecture, Click to expand... What do you mean? I installed 9.1 on my 1400, and it just installed, no problems at…

With no floppy drive or Ethernet port to speak of (at least as far as I can tell), and that strange (25-pin?) SCSI port, I'm sorta stuck at the moment. Click to expand... get y…

The 1400s are fine machines, especially if they are the later 'extended' models. Max. notional RAM is 64MB, which is a kindness to them, and allows the most compatible OS, 8.6, to…

i have one and i love it!!!only problem is tht the screen is broken

Probably the easiest way to transfer applications would be a serial cable between 2 Macs. Will be really slow though :-\