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"!!!

Yep, manuals meant a lot more back then than they do now, that's for certain.

That's a very nice system. Just a friendly word of advice, please don't go soldering any joints together.

Also there were no arrow keys on the 512k Keyboard 8-o [] ]'>

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.

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…

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

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…