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…

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…

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…