Good to hear you got it going. I second what Ben said - before you buy anything, try reseating the keyboard cable, or failing that, cleaning the contacts.

I just bought a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. It was sold as working from ebay. I open it up and turn it on and BOOM! Lines allover the LCD. The LCD is fine, but it looks like some kind…

What he said. Sadly, CRTs are pretty much "out of fashion now", including most of the iMac G3 models, meaning that they sell for quite little and even go for free. Your iMac is wor…

Are you sure the keyboard is broken? You could of just knocked the card bay into place that time.

This is a subject that has been picking at me for some time. I have noticed very little "free" software for my newtons, most of it is shareware. What is worse is the limitations th…

The 233 bondi blues aren't worth much, maybe $20. The G4 upgrade is worth more, probably at least $100 because of the rarity.

So a few months ago I bought an iMac from the thrift store to play around with, mostly because I have never used one before. I really bought it to teach myself how to repair and u…

As a 2400c owner and lover, this is quite cool to see. Thanks for putting them up! TBird

I did what you suggested LCGuy, but it still only plays the "death chimes" Edit: I went a little further and found out the PCMCIA card bay was loose, that fixed my "death chime" i…

Have you tried booting it up in a "barebones" configuration? By that, I mean, only the onboard RAM, no HDD, no expansion bay device, no video out/ethernet card, no PC cards, etc. I…

I have noticed very little "free" software for my newtons, most of it is shareware. Click to expand... How much software have you written and distributed for free?

I would have looked at the Sad Mac, but none shows on the screen. My HDD is perfectly fine, but thanks for your help anyway.

Take heart. If you looked at the code under SM you may have seen that it was once more a result of the commonest cause of Sad Mac: nnnnnn0F, indicating a software fault. Hardware…

I bought this thing on eBay as a dead curiosity, but was determined to fix it. So, after replacing a bad fuse and making extra sure that all cards were seated onto their connectors…

I have this PowerBook 1400c/166 that has been working great until recently, when I turned it on and I got the infamous "death chimes" I went through the system, dismantled the e…

They walk a very fine line in the current state as well. They need to prevent piracy and create funds to continue such niche software. But the moment they go under or are not utili…

Nice to see Franklinstein - always wanted to check this out. Is she a goer, and if so does Cardbus work without modificiation? JB

Very interesting photos, thank you very much for sharing them

I finally got off my lazy arse and uploaded these pix to my Flickr. Here are: Top Bottom Open display Partial disassembly and part of the logic board

Hrm. 4 MB should be sufficient for up to 1280x800 at 24-bit (Millions) color.

Yeah I saw that, problem is it needs the ATI card with 8MB not 4MB which is what I have. It's worth a try I guess... When I read that I thought "isn't the snow iBook's display con…

i found this http://forums.macnn.com/73/mac-modification/305763/clamshell-ibook-questions-lcd-cd-logic/ i hope this helps ps, I have not tried it so good luck.

Is that even possible? Aren't the connectors and dimensions all non-standard and proprietary and mean? I'd love it if it was.

Just go on ebay and buy one. They aren't expensive especially if you can find an install disc that was made for your model machine rather than a full retail disc. LEM also has a pa…

Personally you can either track down the original developer through the internet and get the software registered, or just pirate it. I don't think developers are greedy pigs, if t…