I had another go at the cables in the PB145 tonight, paying particular attention to the display cable that connects to the inverter board, adjacent to the keyboard cables exposed w…

$500.00CAD working. I did not realize how big they were. Shipping would be something too.

So uh... did you ask how much for one of the Lisa's?

13 Lisas?!?!? That's insane!

Broke down and bought this card from ebay. There was no shipping costs as he lives 5 minutes from me. I amlooking for thedriver/ software for it. It may be just a extention. The …

Nice haul and some great Powerbook info in this thread.

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs) Click to expand…

The Macintosh Performa 600 (aka Macintosh IIvi) was a bit of a crippled machine. They reused many aged components from older machines, most notably the memory and SCSI controllers.…

My PowerBook 165 (not 165c, my B&W 165) does kinda the same thing. The screen is completely dark on the bottom, and the slightest movement of the contrast switch makes the…

The cables have been checked, and the contacts lightly cleaned, and there is happily a considerably better display now. There remains some flickering, but no really bad multi-colou…

Ghosting and "messing up" could be the result of a bad cable or bad video controller. Fading in and out could be a failing backlight or inverter... I'd check the cables first, of…

Very nice!

Picked up a PB 145 and 150 yesterday. The 150 looks almost new and works perfectly (although the drive is noisy - but this is an easy fix, as the 150s' are IDEs); the 145 has some …

I don't understand women/moms/etc. The CRTs aren't hurting anything sitting in the house. They didn't do anything wrong. Click to expand... That was my argument but she seemed …

My mother went on a CRT purge a few months ago and made me dispose of two monitors (a Dell and an LG) and two televisions. Fortunately Freecycle took care of the monitors but no-on…

No worries. I was looking for an extra G5 case to convert into an external E-SATA RAID Array. I figure I could alteast 8TB in on G5 case. That would be awesome.

Tell 'em it's a monitor. Works surprisingly well for non-tech-inclined parents. Click to expand... Unfortunately my parents use the Indigo iMac G3 as their internet machine (I …

Tell 'em it's a monitor. Works surprisingly well for non-tech-inclined parents.

Thats an advantage of PCs - its just "Yet Another Beige Box". About 3 or so weeks later my parents still haven't noticed the P3 From Britain™.

I just wonder if I could sneak it past my parents... Click to expand... Somehow I suspect they might just notice a large and very brightly coloured box in your room that wasn't…

Lo-and-behold there is an iMac on my local freecycle as well today! I just wonder if I could sneak it past my parents...

QuadSix50, I would love to purchase the old G5 case from your dad. This would include: the mobo optical drive powersupply case I am completely and totally dead serious. Tell h…

It can't be indigo and a 266. The indigo was a slot load in speeds ranging from 350-500mhz. If it's a 266 it has to be a revision C blueberry. Click to expand... I never said i…

early iMacs are a bit finicky about 256MB SO-DIMMs, in that with some, they will only address the first 128MB of the SO-DIMM. Click to expand... The trick is to get ones with c…

Since it was pointed out to me the colour I thought was Blueberry was, in fact, Indigo I have no idea what colour this machine is. What makes it look Bondi Blue in one pic makes it…