Good point, I had already tried it in the beige, though. It didn't seem break anything. I can't think of anything I did to mess up the B&W when installing the G4. When I w…

We'll see how the CPU swap goes before I decide on overclocking. I actually have a Q605 and an LC475 as well as two 68040 donor machines, so I have some room for error. My end goal…

Ah yes, I forgot about the 240MHz model.

Haha, looks like I've been beat. Oh well, this thing is still quite a quirky toy. I've got a spare 80GB HDD and I figure, if I can ever find a cable for the external CD, I'll loa…

The other one I want is an early HP OmniBook 300. The early ones were fun, they had a 'pop-out mouse-on-a-stick' (the mouse was permanently attached via a moveable rod, it would s…

Or better yet, track down a board from a 3400/240, the fastest stock pre-G3 PowerBook ever. (or just track down a Kanga board)

While you have it apart, why not shoot for 225MHz? That would make it the fastest non-G3/G4 Powerbook ever

nb: 40MHz is not always stable though. A heatsink/fan for the 040 would be a good idea. http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/q605_40.html Output Enablers sell some useful parts. …

That Epson is win. Welcome to the retro netbook club

I'm finally getting around to swapping the 68LC040 in my Q605 for a full 68040. I have a 68040 donor machine ready to go, put I have no experience pulling chips. Any advice on wher…

Just lever the the cpu with a thin knife, SLOWLY. I would suggest no more than 1mm or 1/32" before moving on to next side and repeating, the pins are only 3mm / 1/8". Ok you cant r…

The very early sawtooth used the same psu as the B&W. Most sawtooths had two more pins on the connector.

The Gateway probably wins, hands-down, for combination of oldest and "netbook"; although it wasn't really possible to use it as a "netbook" when it was new. The roughly same age, …

Anybody ever try putting a Sawtooth motherboard in a B&W case? Since it looks like the motherboard in my B&W is dead, I'm thinking it would make more sense just to…

I suppose it's just speaking the obvious to point out it'd probably be a bad idea to put that G4 module into your beige machine, unless you're willing to take the risk that it'll m…

congrats, it sounds like its a cool conquest, and a ton of fun, but... your going to have to go back abit further for "netbooks" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libret…

I was at SalVal today, and found a small leather bag which contained a fully functional AST 280M notebook. Specs: Cyrix (Ha! Remember them?) 200GXM CPU 32 MB RAM 8" 640x480 col…

At this point, I'm at a bit of a loss about what to do. My two choices seem to be either to try and grab a cheap releacement motherboard (preferably a rev2 to replace the current r…

What kind of CD did you try? Are you sure it's undamaged? Is it a burned CD, or a factory-pressed one? If the former, expect trouble in older drives. Is it an HFS disc? HFS+? ISO?…

I usually use a thin screwdriver. I know, not the recommended way of doing it, but as long as you are extremely gentle, you should be fine. I've been doing this for years, and have…

I can't see why not - it was never an official upgrade, but all the other parts should be the same.

Unless you have a proper IC puller, or some other device that can get under and lift both sides at the same time, then the trick is to ease each side up a very small amount at a ti…

Well I think I just found the answer, it is definitely due to size. These things are absolute barrels for the capacitance that we need. http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/searc…

My sincere apologies to you all if I haven't been getting back to you in a timely manner about shipping costs for sending work to me. Things are, as usual, hectic yet not too busy…

I guess every machine is different. Since the addition of the 3rd drive, it's been noticeably warmer in my room which is nice because the heating for the house isn't so great u…