Booting from a DVD may be different because there is no writable swap file on the startup disk. So install discs may not use virtual memory at all, being that there isn't necessar…

I had a PB100 that did the exact same thing - weird flickering screen/static noises and needed a firm slap on the 2.5" SCSI drive before it span up after years of not being turned …

Zoomed Video is for video *in*put - it's a direct pipe into the GPU, bypassing the rest of the computer, and allowing video to be displayed on the LCD. The Road Rocket is a second…

Excellent. For some reason I didn't think to change the style, even though I've done it on other boards for this very reason. Argh

Change your theme to SubSilver and it works fine.

as far as i know, leopard will only boot (at least from the dvd) w/ 512mb of ram. i got my emac for noting b/c the people before me were trying to make it boot a leopard dvd w/ onl…

This site requires turning off stylesheets when viewed with Classilla 9.0 (View->Use Style->None), each time the link is opened in a fresh window/tab. It's somewhat i…

Ok, the title of this topic is maybe not the most original… sorry for that! I recently conquered a "dead" PowerBook 100 which cost me next to nothing. It came with its power brick…

The G3s have "Zoomed Video" connections on one PCMCIA slot, whatever that is. Normally it's for a DVD decoder card. :scrambled:

Back in 2006 when the 128MB DIMM I had in my iMac died, I booted it once or twice with the original factory 32MB of RAM. It took somewhere around 15 minutes for Jaguar to boot, and…

Haven't played with it yet. No space on the bench to set it up. Leopard. Now there's a thought. I have a pre-loved 10.5 DVD, but I don't think the machine has the RAM. It'd be …

I can tell you that it very seldom works on a Wallstreet.... Resetting the battery can be done in Open Firmware, I gather, on a Pismo. Mind you, it hasn't worked for my Pismo's de…

Out of curiousity... have any of you ever used BatteryReset 2.0 on a Lombard? If so, were you successful at fixing a battery? I've got a Pismo and a battery that refuses to take a…

Haven't played with it yet. No space on the bench to set it up. Leopard. Now there's a thought. I have a pre-loved 10.5 DVD, but I don't think the machine has the RAM. It'd be…

Did you end up getting it to boot? How's the performance with the G4 upgrade? I know there have been reports of people successfully installing 10.5 on the beiges with G4 upgrades!…

I've noticed that there seems to be ALOT of ebay sellers with powerbook g4's that were used as only desktops. Click to expand... I think there's a lot of people in general, Mac…

Nice score. I'd like to get my hands on a 17" powerbook one day.

Wow I believe this is one of those posts that should be backed up and archived.

The thing would take an aeon to start up Click to expand... An excellent point -- something I too often forget about 68k machines is the RAM check at startup. Click to expan…

I was very lucky, but it goes to show how proprietary RAM modules - must have some "play" in them to be mass produced for slightly different computers. So that's another unique th…

Wow - very impressive! Well done.

Great news - I was able to hack my 3400 128MB module to work on the Kanga! It surprised me that the 3400 128MB module didn't work - considering that the 32MB Apple module worked…

I've noticed that there seems to be ALOT of ebay sellers with powerbook g4's that were used as only desktops.

Congrats in the Al-PB, an excellent machine! May you and the PowerBook enjoy "peace and long life" I enjoy the 1701A bit in the username

The 17" is portable... I bring it places, I had a 15" and same thing it portable. The 12" are nice but a bit too small for me. now there was a HP with, I believe a 21 inch screen…