not bad. I always loved the 1x0 series of machines (excluding the 190). Truly my favorite of machines. My first machine was the PowerBook 170. That this was sooo cool. In fact,…

Nice! M

PowerBook 160 with case $1 local pickup. http://i4.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/b8/e7/2540_1.JPG

Daystar have a G4 for Lombards, but it's $299. Yeowch Click to expand... ... hmmm... $55 rebate if you send your CPU and heatsink back to them afterwards $100 rebate if you …

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…

Man I would LOVE to have an iBook G3 Clamshell. I really love the design. Too bad that I can't find any of them except on powerbookguy.com and it does not look too good for being i…

$50 for a 512MB SDRAM SoDIMM is pretty good; I just forked out $60 for 2 x 512MB for my PB Ti, "fastmemoryman" is cheaper but appears to have heaps of negative feedback. I only th…

Ah, I see that you've answered my question here cj. Click to expand... No, I answered it elsewhere (sorry, slow day at work)

Daystar have a G4 for Lombards, but it's $299. Yeowch Click to expand... ... hmmm... $55 rebate if you send your CPU and heatsink back to them afterwards $100 rebate if you …

Ah, I see that you've answered my question here cj. Why do all that work when you can use a PCMCIA card Click to expand... Have you seen the price of those cards? Besid…

Damn! Sorry Bunsen, I wish I'd seen this thread earlier as I have a spare 400MHz Lombard logic board w/DVD decoder that you could have had for next to nothing...

Why do all that work when you can use a PCMCIA card to decode DVDs? Or were you planning to go OSX all the way? I know that won't work on X, just OS9....

The Lombard 333 @ 433 was sheer luck; I tried it on a whim as 433 involves a least amount of resistor swappery, and it was always fine. Might as well try it Bunsen, and if not 400…

Yes, the decoder is a chip on the mobo, but a 400MHz mobo isn't 400Mhz unless you have a 400Mhz processor module for it, and those things are _expensive_ A 333Mhz module on a 400M…

From what I'm reading, the DVD decoder is a dedicated chip on the 400MHz motherboard. Now I just need to hunt down a cheap DVD drive and some RAM, and a bigger HD, and a TV tuner,…

Oh what the hell. I just ordered the 400MHz DVD playing logic board. $44 US inc shipping, and the $AU is 90c at the moment. Click to expand... oerrr... you know that's just t…

Didn't work. Mind you it's got a Japanese keyboard and caps lock and control have swapped places, so I dunno. Meanwhile I've pulled the battery. It booted into OS X with only 12…

Oh crap. What's the key combo to force OS 9 on startup? Click to expand... On my G3 it's just hold Option as soon as you start it up until you see the blank grey screen come o…

I had a Lombard 333 which amazingly overclocked to 433Mhz Click to expand... As Keanu says ... "Woah" Details?

Oh crap. What's the key combo to force OS 9 on startup?

Oh what the hell. I just ordered the 400MHz DVD playing logic board. $44 US inc shipping, and the $AU is 90c at the moment.

Damn you!! I *love* the G3 PowerBooks and clamshells, all that G3 awesomeness wrapped up in such gorgeous cases - how do you guys keep finding them for free when I can't find an…

you "might" be able to do it with vlc on the os x side, im not sure tho.

Heh. Multiple cash transfers to banks in Vanuatu, the Cayman Islands, and the Channel Islands. People really should learn to zero their hard drives.

OK, I just realised I'm complaining about a free Lombard. I'm going to go find a large halibut so I can slap myself with it.