For my Lombard I just pulled 5v from the pads on the bottom of the mobo from the USB ports. They are nice and exposed and it is super easy. I have never used much more than a keybo…

basically worthless Click to expand... [!] !]'> /me hugs Duo collection. No, don't cry my pretties, he didn't mean it

I've heard of some people (like this one) using the +5v from the PCMCIA card cage to run the fan off of a little switch they've installed. May be worth trying, or googling for othe…

Can't say I know the inside of the Lombard too well so I might be well and truly off the mark here but is there any sort of thermal sensor that's tripping (or in this case not trip…

I replaced the fan and it was spinning OK when installed. Heck even the original one looked OK.

Does anyone have or ever use a Koala Pad Touch Tablet? What are your opinions on it? How much do they typically run for these days? Click to expand... Here's an article you mig…

Have you set up the ibook to connect with airport (instead of, say, ethernet or modem)? DHCP selected?

Can you spin the fan with your hand? Check the connections.

Does the DLink need a password? If it does, try typing a $ before the password. That sometimes works.

More realistically you could enable ink as is on the mac, then install vnc server and client on the machine and newton respectively. Sure it might be a bit laggy, but it will be a …

Someone did actually do this, in the Classic OS of course. So it'd certainly be possible, although improbable. You would need to write an advanced enough driver that made the Newt…

Impressions on speed and battery life. Speed: There are broadly comparable start-up times; the system, however, seems marginally slower in saving a file for some reason, but not …

Actually, I got the keyboard working! (The contacts were a little dirty) Thanks for your help!

Great! Love to hear your impressions on speed, battery life, etc

Following repeat problems, I replaced the ram chip, and now there is no trouble with Virtual Memory enabled or off. Ram must have been bad, though the particular component has give…

Driverguru, the "Nike" you're describing was a shipping product from not that long ago. It was an add-on to the iPod, not a custom MacOS portable device. And "Nike" wasn't a code…

On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 bootin…

Thank, Frank. That should be easy to find. On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms…

Oh, yeah...there seems to be a decent amount of interest in Apple prototype stuff but no "complete" database of information about these.

Where is in on the motherboard? Click to expand... If you're looking at the CPU ZIF socket, the Grackle is north a bit, between the ZIF and the drive connectors. In fact, the G…

Everyone I have asked says that they either don't have the original install CD or that it came with OS 9. All the copies of 8.6 floating around the net are March 1999 retail copie…

Holy crap, I found it here: http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45'>http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45 Click to expand... That page is interesting but…

Where is in on the motherboard?

Just making sure, is the MachSpeed Control a cache enabler?

Yeah word. How do you identify which version of the Grackle IC you have? And Rev. F ROM? Never heard of that one. Click to expand... Rev. F? Must've been the "scientifically-pr…