got mine, thumbed through it, looks very cool and I will be reading it throughly tonight

Someone selected an ugly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Icon for the HD. I'll figure out how to fix that. Click to expand... Find an icon you prefer. Perhaps plug in an externa…

I use a rubberised plastic pen barrel, something like a Paper Mate, with the bit pushed very hard into the open end. This works well because the plastic's not the kind that can sha…

4. I would guess you'd have a hard time finding the right cells for less than $30 shipped - and it'd wanna be a lot less to make it worth the time and risk of doing a recell, IMHO…

Yeah you're pretty safe with the 12" PB.

It's my understanding that the Alum Powerbook did not have the same problem with crappy hinges that plagued the Ti Powerbook.

If PDFs are made available, I'll get one. Interested in the bootstrapping Macs article at the least. Best, John

I'm negotiating with someone for a 24" Sun (Sony tube) widescreen CRT monitor. Click to expand... Yeah, I spotted one of them semi-locally on evilpay, and the drool factor was …

solidpro, thanks for that background. You definitely would have won it regardless, so I'm glad I didn't jump in to drive the price up any higher for you. Not to mention, how much l…

Since the death of my beloved TiBook i've been searching for a new Powerfull PowerBook. Today i bought a PowerBook G4 12" 1,5Ghz (but with 512MB ram) Superdrive and brand new batte…

What's a "G2 Block"? I'm not familiar with that term.

ive seen focus/g2 blocks inside the flyback fail. and cause driftness in focus/brightness of CRT. they are pots and pots wear out. Eventually depending on the design of the flyback…

Just got the battery. Yay 5Hr battery life! To bad the battery doesn't fit right. It makes the laptop uneven... I think.... I think the case at the bottom may be bowed, but I am n…

Interesting. That port on the top of the card looks like it would use a cable to connect to the DAV port on the Power Mac AV card (which has the exact same type of connector)

As Strimkind said, it should work fine, the fact that you have a Rage Mobility 128, and not a Rage Pro (like early iBooks) will help quite a lot...I once tried to play a DVD in VLC…

Nice work - I've always wanted one of these! I was at Uni when they came out - there were a few in the shared computing lab. I had to walk to the other end of campus but it was w…

How common was networking in the Apple II days? I remember our school lab had about 10 Apples sharing a printer, but other than that I didn't even know the term "networking" back …

This is kind of unrelated to the network part, but I can't get your single-player snake game to run. Anything I should know that I might not about getting it to work? I don't have…

Re: the $470 one on ebay... I've been collecting compact macs for about 18 months now. I've got a few 128ks (here in the UK I'd say a simple unboxed (but non-yellowed) example, wo…

I think these two last posts are spot on. There was definitely an unresolved itch to scratch with the IIcis, the Powerbook 180s, and the Powerbook 1400c I purchased. As I get on …

It has to do with people wanting what they could not afford when younger, but also this particular stuff is also getting harder to find in good working condition. I got into this …

Could a major factor for the dramatic rise in prices over specifically the few years be generational interest? I am shocked out how perfectly these posts predict my teenage embrace…

...One thing that I will offer is that impatience, desire, and idle cash drives impulse purchases on eBay... Click to expand... I believe this is an essential truth.

It will work if you use OS X. It has built-in software dvd support unlike OS 9 where support for DVD video was limited. You can use DVD player or VLC and it should work fine on y…

I don't have much but a "me too" on the scratching my head on the 128K pricing nonsense. I'm one of the "recent new collectors" that has been mentioned, and as such I'll shed some…