One Sunny morning in Hopewell NJ, Me an my dad went out to breakfast. As we were driving, we took the wrong road... As we drove along that [wrong] road we noticed it was yard sale …

The black covering on the pismo keyboard that melts when it gets hot is part of cooling? Click to expand... Totally, same for the Lombard.

Thanks for the responses. I had seen a bunch of those webpages when searching myself, but it is a comfort to be redirected to them by people who know more and still trust the webs…

Interesting - I thought that ALL PowerBooks use the keyboard as a part of the cooling system. Click to expand... The black covering on the pismo keyboard that melts when it get…

A little tip - if you're going to keep it running System 7.1 after you install the LC575 logic board, make sure that you've placed a copy of the System Enabler 065 into the System …

Interesting - I thought that ALL PowerBooks use the keyboard as a part of the cooling system.

Also: http://www.kevinomura.com/macs/colorclassic/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010617164459/http://lowendmac.com/macdan/010523cl.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021…

http://colourclassicfaq.com/ Alarmingly, Stuart Bell's Power Colour Classic page seems to be down, but here's the archived version

Somehow I'm pretty sure I managed to score a working LC575 motherboard with an ethernet card onboard, and it is supposed to arrive in the mail later this week! It has been a dream …

I assume that a feature like that would not have been consistent with Apple's desired image for the Macintosh. If you look at all their old ads, they touted it as a revolutionary …

Just get one of those damaged screw remover kits. Once you have the screw out, use a dremel to give it a slot across the top of the head so you can use a regular old flat head scre…

if you have a plastic coat hanger you can clip a piece off of it, cut it down to size, melt the end abit and let it cool while pressing on the screw head basically making a custom…

IIRC it is the wallstreet and PDQ that are not supposed to be run with the lid closed since they use the keyboard as part of the cooling system.

ha, i forgot about those, i have a "berry" one somewhere

Just be aware that the machine is not designed to run with the lid closed Click to expand... From the Pismo technote... The computer includes 8 MB of video memory, which…

I'm fairly sure most PowerBooks can do that - if I have an external monitor/keyboard/mouse on my PowerBook 1400, and I press the power key on the external keyboard with the lid clo…

Well, this was totally unexpected. I'm in the process of changing the layout of my room. I decided to arrange my desk so that I place my Pismo on the rolling shelf, more suited f…

There were also iMac desk clocks by Mesonic that had FM radios built in. They weren't an iMac accessory but instead looked like miniature iMacs. It had a clock, calendar, and therm…

Well, since my reason for doing it is frivolous, I don't want to do anything drastic. I think the only way to get them out would be with a teeny-weeny drill. I asked at the closes…

I know this is a little old and disregard if you already have it working, but I did this to load leopard onto my emac take the hdd out and put it in another apple (or external wha…

I had absolutely ZERO idea that the FCC wouldn't allow a Macintosh computer with a radio built in Click to expand... It isn't a matter of the FCC allowing it or otherwise. It …

It arrived ten years after the 128K and was called the Lacie ADB FM Tuner. It was powered by ADB and used whatever amplifier system was available.

Jeez .... I had absolutely ZERO idea that the FCC wouldn't allow a Macintosh computer with a radio built in lol :b&w:

sometimes you can pull or angle and pull on cases while trying to back the screw out, effectively pinching it enough so it can unscrew

I assume that a feature like that would not have been consistent with Apple's desired image for the Macintosh. If you look at all their old ads, they touted it as a revolutionary …