If you're comfortable opening the iPod, check the Firewire connector to see if it has broken solder joints. I seem to recall that was an issue with those older models. I havent re…

Yeah, the 701c looks great but I'm not too interested in it for a few reasons, the biggest of which is that my entire pre-P3 thinkpad collection went to _K. [] ]'> The nex…

The 701c butterfly is the one most colletors want in the 7xx series, and the ones that you see are mostly beat and expensive. If I come across one cheap I will probably snag it but…

I have the following: 755C 755CD 760CD 760ED 760XD 760EL 765L 365XD 365 Click to expand... No collection would be complete without a 701c "butterfly" and perhaps the Z50 Workpa…

Yeah, I ran ubuntu desktop as well as debian etch or lenny (or both?) on my A21m and it was perfect, nothing needed any special setup. Both of those keyboards and the A21m are nic…

. . . I noticed that the adjustable keyboard has keyswitches, I thought it was newer than that. And my broken Extended II is now reverting to oversized-blunt-weapon mode. } Cl…

Fair enough, USB 1.1 will suffice. The real question is whether Linux will like it or not.

Most old laptops were built to fall apart, Click to expand... But modern laptops are designed to have hardware failure after a couple of years. xx( Yes, it is from eBay. Hav…

When I said "new in box" I meant "new in box." The adjustable keyboard came with everything, even the numeric keypad, the adb cables were still packaged too. Best thing: no yel…

Darn, no luck yet reinitializing. I only got the internal drive to appear once in Disk Repair– it said the drive has a problem that Disk Repair can't fix– and HD SC Setup says it's…

. . . a brand new Apple Extended Keyboard II in box, a Apple Adjustable Keyboard new in box, and a box of used 30-pin SIMMs (4MB I think). I also find out the origin of "$240" a…

Most old laptops were built to fall apart, Click to expand... But modern laptops are designed to have hardware failure after a couple of years. xx( Yes, it is from eBay. Hav…

Is the Thinkpad A20m a recent ebay purchase? I have been going nuts collecting old P1 and 486 Thinkpads lately (blame Cory5412 for getting me started). Most old laptops were buil…

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Anyway, yesterday I call my Grandpa (who had noticed that one of his friends had a couple old Apple ][gs, and I ended up getting one a while back), and tell him that I've gotten ar…

cseals3, I looked up the error code "0000000F" "00000002" in my copy of Macworld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition by David Pogue and Joseph Schorr. Staying focused on the "00000002" code…

The trouble with that being that the LCIII requires a PLCC 68882.

I've always wanted a really nice first generation iPod. It seems like most of them would have been thrown away by now, because new iPods are so cheap compared to the first one.

So I was poking around craigslist yesterday, when I came across "First Gen iPod - $20." Interested, I clicked to find what appeared indeed to be a 1G iPod! E-mailed the girl, and w…

I have the Apple AV cable and I can confirm that the plug is slightly longer than normal and has 4 contacts... I'd guess it has to be since the jack on the clamshell supports a sta…

(I think it was Mr. I just got an LC III)

Since the output consists of two stereo channels and one composite video line, there have to be four connections. A standard stereo headphone connector can't work -- it has to have…

Because there's one here: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270442756435

So the Quantum ProDrive EPS works? At least that's a Very Good Thing™.

And its installing 7.6!