I've seen a bad PRAM battery do something similar.

I've never heard of 9 on a 601 upgrade card. I've seen the Sonnet enabler do 8.6 personally, but even that was pedestrian.

I tried Preview, but didn't see the resize options. Blind I guess. Click to expand... Sorry. In Preview, Tools menu, Adjust Size...

Your Mac shows 512K because it has the original 64K ROMs most likely. You actually have 1.5MB of RAM installed, it looks like. The mobo RAM chips have probably been replaced upgrad…

Apple never really wanted to release the PowerDuo, but they'd promised all Duo owners a PPC upgrade path. I've got a lot of Duo parts, some of the, presumably, upgrade decks have s…

Someone has obviously popped the top plastics from the earlier series on it, either because the 2300c's plastics were bad, the trackpad broken, or because the whole PowerBook track…

I like the 2300's. I used one back in high school for a bit. Even dragged it with me backpacking in Mexico.

My 8600/300s (two) are a bit odd in that they will refuse to reboot to the order of the three finger salute. You have to manually shut down if it crashes by pressing the green powe…

I go to the Salvation Army store to look for computers. I haven't found anything interesting enough to buy yet, but I still look. Goodwill never has computers in the stores but the…

Sonnet had an enabler to let upgraded machines use 8.5/8.6, but I've never heard of anyone getting OS 9 to work. Admittedly most links about such things seem to have fallen into th…

The difficulty with this project is that it requires that one have a circuit board made. That's not difficult in itself, but it does require a substantial up front investment to k…

There is a website around somewhere with a long history of tips and tricks for the Turbo601. I think it had a sister site for the Quadra 601-based upgrades. And the hints on the…

A better idea is to start collecting old paper currency then when you get flung back in time exchange it for gold coin. Click to expand... But you never know when you'll be une…

Where do you get that 512Ke discontinued date? It all depends on which schools you're talking about. Jobs made education sales a priority, especially after the first 6 months when…

They're owned by the city/regional councils, who run the garbage tips. They're actually at the garbage tip. Anyway, that Goodwill sounds great...you'd never see anything like that…

I was going to guess that a "tip shop" was like a thrift store, but this sounds a bit different. Are they actually owned by the garbage companies? As far as Goodwill, if you want …

jt: a "tip shop" is a shop at the garbage tip (or dump) where they sell stuff that they think is saleable. Things like electrical items, books, CDs/DVDs/videos/cassettes, furniture…

Another thing to consider is that the 512Ke is not actually marked as "enhanced" or "e" on its nameplate. The only surefire ways to know if it's enhanced (originally or not) are to…

Mine is definitely a 2300c, not an upgraded model. The screen size measures 9.5" and the sticker on the bottom of the case reads, "Macintosh PowerBook Duo 2300 Series".

When collectors start trying to make a complete set of every revision and color then some will become valuable because that will separate the rare ones from the commons.

Rodus When you install a CPU upgrade you have to pull the old card, press the reset button, THEN install the new CPU. I had that problem with my G4 1000 upgrade. My 7500 wouldn't …

Nice lappie. Calm before the storm...

I know he doesn't care about the historical accuracy of the listing, it's just fun to mess with people sometimes. } :lol:

Interesting note about my 2300c is that it has a trackball instead of a trackpad. It was like this when I purchased it, so I'm not sure of the history, whether the wristrest or tra…

I've been a member here for three and a half years and have been a subscriber to the LEM lists off-and-on since the Compact Macs list launched about 11 years ago. I attribute the p…