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…

OK for this guy you need to PM me and I'll pass your details on to him. Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:03:52 +1000From: Subject: Re:WANTED:Apple/Mac computers old/dead a P…

Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:21:22 +1000From: ------------ if it helps we are adjacent to ---------- railway station. bits and bobs is just old mouse and serial cables etc and …

An impressive haul, both metaphorically and literally. Now, you will take care to leave some walkway between your bed and the door to your warehouse, won't you? We don't wish to …

The above guy has loads more gear to give away. I'll be posting his details and those of others who responded shortly. He's in the Mornington Peninsula area.

So I put out a call for "old Macs, any condition" on the Melbourne, Australia freecycle group, and I was completely inundated with offers. Apart from the amazing pair of Powerbook…

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It was probably originally made for an early Mac.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 :-\

Nice. Is it a 117mhz or 133mhz?

Nice find, the PowerBook 1400s are great machines to mess about with. One of the best upgrades I can recommend is RAM - I upped mine from 16MB to 40MB with a 24MB expansion card an…

They wanted $20 for it, but since they couldn't show me that it really worked, I offered $15. The machine itself had decent wear and tear, but still looked pretty good. Since the…

Sweet!

Hi, I've just acquired a mac plus (nothing strange there) with an extremely strange external hardrive. It's a paradise scsi 20 mb external hardrive. It has two connectors, a SCSI…

Nice one, the 160s are very good portable black & white machines. A case is a good bonus and at that price you can't go wrong!