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PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #82

I did some more cleaning above U4 (after taking the pic), but these corrosions are really small and I should be an ant to find them all.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:45

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #81

Then it's a board problem for sure.  You need to clean the remaining corrosion (pretty much broadly the area between the power connector and the PCMCIA enclosure.  I again recommen…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:45

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #78

The short story is that I don't know... I will have to look over all of this but even then that's super weird.  I assume you've tried reseating the cable a bunch of times. One thi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:29

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #77

Continuation: So I took apart the Kanga and found a small PRAM battery leaking (see pic). But where is the big damage? You can see both sides of the logic board in high resolution…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:13

Use PowerPC for a week? — #41

I was challenged to up the ante and use my LCIII for a couple of days. With Mulberry, BBEdit and MS Office I was able to work quite happily - although I did later run into some dif…
68kMLA Software by VMSZealot Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 23:33

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #76

Yes I've already cleaned boards with leaking batteries (PowerBook and Amiga), but their damage was visible when I opened the case. This Kanga is really new to me, shipped from NY.…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 08:08

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #75

You should not have a PRAM battery in the machine if it is not working properly (I forgot what this thread was about).  Yes your batteries are in surprisingly bad shape lol.  Well …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:46

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #74

BTW: I tested the Kanga again with an original Kanga boot CDR and it seems, the Kanga is booting to desktop, because it's reading very long from the CD-Rom and then sits there wait…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:09

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #72

I created a topic about that battery and mentioned the polarity issue...  I put the batteries back in their original place beneath the speaker panel but putting it in the HD case i…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by raoulduke Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:50

PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories — #71

Continuation of the story... As I have to do more testing with the "sleeping beauty" (the Kanga), I created two NEW working backup battery packs mixing the old PowerBook 3400 &amp…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by MikeatOSX Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:46

Widget drive — #63

yeah I seen it. You can put an se/30 board in there no problem
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 00:58

Wiki is down! — #9

The wiki is available again. Yay! All thanks go to wthww, who recovered as much as possible from before/during the infrastructure interruptions.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Cory5412 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 - 00:19

Widget drive — #62

If you want more power in a Lisa you would like my MISA or LACINTOSH. https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/25212-is-it-a-lisa-is-it-a-macintosh/ I wonder if I could attach …
68kMLA Hardware by mactjaap Fri, 19 Jun 2015 - 06:50

Widget drive — #61

Well the first thing I would do is perform modifications to get that clock speed up to at least 16Mhz. as it sits stock, its slowwwwww.....
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Fri, 19 Jun 2015 - 02:45

Wiki is down! — #8

Just as an update. This is still on the docket, I'm talking to wthww about it right now, but I think this is our highest priority. Some errors with the infrastructure at our host c…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Cory5412 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 - 00:52

Use PowerPC for a week? — #40

For reasons already mentioned by Cory5412, I have difficulty considering machines running older versions of Mac OS X to be "retro" anything, and I don't find the idea of using it t…
68kMLA Software by tsundoku Thu, 18 Jun 2015 - 21:19

Mac OS 7.6 on PowerBook 1400cs/166? — #44

tanuki65 said: It arrived, but has a hinge problem: the two halves of the left hinge do not meet, and the left display cable has worked up into the bezel, and is pushing the …
68kMLA Hardware by tsundoku Thu, 18 Jun 2015 - 21:09

Widget drive — #60

techknight said: I think I will leave the Lisa collecting to the purists because if I had one I would hotrod the hell out of it. Click to expand... There is nothing wrong…
68kMLA Hardware by lisa2 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 - 18:00

Widget drive — #59

hey at least you got it working. The lisa is one of those machines that I don't have any attachment to, and its up in the air whether I would own one or not. I think I will leave…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Thu, 18 Jun 2015 - 13:19
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