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…

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'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?

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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"!!!

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 [] ]'>

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 …