WTF. 8-o

Weird - seems like a video chipset issue, or a video driver issue.

I got a free PB150 off Freecycle last year. Definitely remove the rest of the rubber feet - they never harden up again and they're sticky and disgusting. It takes a number of Q-Tip…

Cool thanks for the info Byrd! Will these ever dry? Or should I just scrape it all off?

but it's just so bizzare cos the computer will see the cd rom, but not the hard drives... Click to expand... Get "SCSI Probe" onto the case. It will tell you exactly what the c…

I got the 840av working and had two hard drives... a faithfull 4.3 gig and a 1.2 Gb. But the smaller drive kept on being there one time, but then not being seen the next. So I ass…

My PowerBook has done this for a loooong time now, but only tonight have I managed to snap some clear shots of this phenomena occuring. Wake the machine from sleep sometimes and ev…

Nice score, if anything the passive matrix screen in PB150's isn't bad. The "melting plastic" would be what's left of the worn out case feet I've come across a few PBs with th…

Not that I've ever seen a Mac in Calvin and Hobbes.

It sounds like you have a SCSI ID issue (assuming I've interpreted what you said properly). If that's the case, you can usually fix it by changing 3 jumpers on the back of the har…

I got an 840av... swapped bits from an old one and got it working... But now it's not working, well it mostly is... I seem to have upset the scsi gods. It was using the hard dri…

I'm not sure. But it seemed fitting at the time.

Uh, Christopher, what does that have to do with PowerBooks running in "lid closed" mode?

After getting some replies for old iMacs (Which I have no use for. Feel free to take them, post to FreeCycle NYC) I finally got an interesting reply. A Woman asked if I took lap…

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Many of the PPC PowerBooks has "lid closed mode" officially supported. The consumer-oriented iBooks did not officially support it; but the entire Intel line of MacBooks does.

Well, I've ran my Pismo like this for the entire week so far and no problems have come up. I can use OS9 and OSX Tiger without a glitch and no overheat issues, either. I have an …

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays.

Oh man... I had that monitor for years until it went *pop* one day and never worked again. It was a BEAST to move around for LAN parties & whatnot, but I LOVED that monitor…

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…

Computers back then were designed for office use and not home use correct (TV interference wasn't a major concern). Click to expand... Not true, most MICRO-Computers were desig…

Computers back then were designed for office use and not home use correct (TV interference wasn't a major concern).

I fixed the problem of the CRT not outputting Edge to Edge image, there is a small know on the back. WackyMacs: I won't solder [incorrectly ] this machine this is so far my mos…

I started at that exact same screen for 15 years yes there should be a knob on it somewhere to make it black again, altho it might be inside, if memory serves me correct there wer…

That keyboard also lacked an escape key, control key, numeric keypad (though you could buy an external one)...it was truly a "keyboard for the rest of us"!!!