Hi Luke, Man, this is a strange one. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just looked and it seems there's quite some threads about similar issues on the Apple Support forum …

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart. Click to expand... Thanks.. to my surprise, that actu…

Hi I have a problem with my PowerBook It boots to BSD (Command Line Interface) instead of OS X (GUI Aqua) This Video shows more http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2oKfxF3fI Please…

What LEDs? I can't see any LEDs on my 12" AlBook.

Nice work, I always like to hear of something coming from faulty Macs Build up a good one using the best condition parts for yourself, and sell the other on eBay as "faulty". …

Being bored and crazy (and maybe slightly drunk...), I lurked on eBay for a while before purchasing a set of dead 1.67GHz 15" AlBooks, knowing that both are dead and battery-less. …

Interesting theory, I'll have to check that out.

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart.

place a small (real small) magnet about 1.5 cm down from the top and 1 cm from the left side. (If you have the broken screen laying around you can find this magnet on the other si…

Don't think there's any way to do that in software. You could open it and unplug it from the logic board...

Hey, I've got a Tibook with no screen. When I try to output via DVI to my screen, it works, however it still thinks there are 2 screens(the external and internal) even though the …

I also have some dead iBook clamshell batteries. I have tried to figure out how to take them apart, but so far no luck. I peeled the stickers off each side and I can see the cell…

IT'S ALIVE!!! All I know is that I put the battery back in and pressed the power button and it booted up. I don't know what happened. I don't care. Yayz.

Cut the minimum number of straps midway needed to do a binary search. Cut where the spot welds allow you to have relatively long liftable stubs. Good cells should accept a brief t…

Thanks all I've two dead Lombard PRAM batteries here, so with luck I'll be able to make up one decent battery. Jaycar sell a couple of potential replacement batteries too; one…

With prices the way they are, I would agree to get a G3 powerbook. Any pre-Pismo is going to be very affordable. Even the Pismos are not too bad. Edit: Actually I take back what…

Hear hear. I long had a cs before upgrading to the Lombard, and loved it. The screen is definitely a tad blurry though, so if you can find a c at a reasonable price, nab that. B…

OR trawl Battery World and Jaycar for a higher capacity, single 3V lithium cell, small enough to tuck away somewhere inside

Well, I'm happy to report that I'm posting this from my freshly-renovated Beige G3! I scrounged eBay and found a nice Rage128/16 card, a 500MHz G3/ZIF chip, and a set of overclock…

...which is completely dead... Click to expand... So see if one cell is shorted, eliminate it, then reconnect the remainder and try. Also, complete assemblies of unknown quali…

Hi, As per my Conquests post, I've built up one "good" Lombard Powerbook G3 from two, which is specced as: - 333 @ 433Mhz (did this once before, and it's rock solid yet again!), …

In answer to your initial question, yes! The 1400 is a great early PPC portable which is suitable for many retro tasks, and has the benefit of being able to run System 7, 8 and 9. …

1400s never came with a card installed at the factory. Apple made video and ethernet cards, as did NewerTech, but the only way to buy a 1400 brand new with a card was to buy from a…

No, no, they were completely different physically: the 5300 had a ~12x4cm card whereas the 1400 took a fairly square ~6x4cm card. Of course, they were the same electrically, more …

The ports on the 1400 are the same as the 5300, except for the fact that the 1400's expansion slot could hold either video or Ethernet solutions Click to expand... The 1400 exp…