The DC jacks on 5x0 powerbooks are pretty strong, but chances are there is a bad connection - what happens when you jiggle the power cable, around the jack? JB

My old 540c did indeed behave that way because of a bad power supply. Having said that, a backup battery and main battery are needed for reliable operation of the machine.

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the Japanese fellow... Click to expand... That would be Mr. Manabu Sakai of ARTMIX Japan, from whom I purchased the TS Adapter PDS slot riser card, several photos shown here: …

Thanks for the links. On further reading there and some separate investigation, it looks like my SE/30 ethernet cards are one and all too short physically to do what I wanted -- …

If you don't mind running the SE/30 without its "bucket" (case back,) you can fit three cards in at once. There are quite a few people who have put two cards in an SE/30 just fine…

The 1MB of cache running at G3 speeds will also greatly improve the response of the onboard video.

It is what it is - a pass through (or duplicate) of the motherboard PDS slot, so you can add more than one card. Each one has to have a different slot ID - gamba's "SE/30 Corner" …

Very nice. Its been a while since I scored a freebie of that caliber.

Lucky...........

Not sure if this matters anymore, but Sonnet's page for the Crescendo/Nubus G2 for 6100 and others (http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_nubus.html) claims that it has a bui…

Free? :O :O 8-o Pismo?

Very very nice pair of bin scores!

Oooh. Power regulator sounds exactly like what could be wrong with mine!

Yes, dead portables are becoming common in the last 2 or 3 years. The 5120s are suffering from leaky caps, mostly, and are fairly easy to fix if the corrosion hasn't spread too far…

Note: I split the Apple II stuff off into a separate section. It's here now: http://web.me.com/henryspragens/Apple-II/Welcome.html As time permits, I want to add some graphics (M…

Very lucky there. I used to own a 1.2ghz iBook but sold it a few years back.

4MB x 8 = 32MB and great for OS 7, not too expensive. Click to expand... Note however that the $0178 ROMs used in the II, IIx, IIcx, and SE/30 cannot boot into 32-bit addressin…

Thanks for that Mac 128, I guess it's time to crack open the compacts again.

The Portable was not finally included in the lot. But there was a lot in the lot, anyway, if you know what I mean.

I've got the Docs on both slots in GttMFH:Second Edition. You might find it online somewhere, if not, I can copy the pages to pic-n-post for you. The ROM Slot is actually one of t…

Tell me the next time she wants to burn a DVD. I'll help her out... for an iPad. lol

I thought you said you were giving one away for free! Dang't...

Only on a truly ancient system. On anything faster than about 200 MHz, decompressing pictures on a webpage should be trivial. On a 100-200 MHz system, it should only be noticeabl…

Jerk! Seriously, I loved my 1.07 GHz G4 iBook. They're great little machines, and fun to take apart. Enjoy it!