Thanks guys! I just might give this a go once I get a spare mini-IDE hard drive and the necessary screwdrivers. I found this when I was crawling about the web. What do you think? …

Last time I tried to use known working IDE drives from newer PBs in my 150s I was getting SadMacs. I had a bootable floppy made up and they would boot from the floppy with the orig…

... So can I just format it with one of the programs on the utilities disk or can I format it with transmac from my PC? I just might make a file server out of it for some other mac…

This is good info on powerbooks. I have a 150 and soon I'm going to have a 145b and some 100s that I think just need an os. I want to know how hard it is to put a new hard drive in…

Schools should lease computers instead of buy them so when they are done with them they go back to whoever they got them from and get sold off to people who can use them instead of…

Post is gone, wonder if somebody picked it up?

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!

The districts here in Texas are different I guess. Old computers, be it Macs or PCs, are rounded up into pallets and sold through online auctions at http://www.lemonsauctioneers.co…

My districts does basically the same thing, but what makes it worse is that I know there is a barn full of Apple //e's and various service parts that will either be recycled in the…

I also work for our school district in Miami (I'm a shared tech at two elementary schools). Because most of those items usually tend to be tagged by the property control departmen…

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 …

Pentium Pro. Now there is a mans CPU.

Does that ISA card have any external ports? How about internal connectors? If all it has is internal connectors, I'd wager that it's some sort of audio processing card and the TI c…

See, I work for a school. If they were anywhere near Seattle, I would pick 'em up and distribute them on the MLA. Let me know if you see anything like this in Seattle.