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!

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Using my friend's Blackberry to connect to the internet was greatly helped by Turbo mode. However, does rendering of images take up much CPU power, …

You're going to make all of us "dead portable" owners jealous!

Good luck. I'm tempted to drag my Portable out to play, but alas I'm out of town this weekend. I'll do it when I get back.

This page http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/ implies that Turbo Mode compresses the images, but the page lays out the same. Thus, it's more for connections that are bandwidth…

Not bad at all. I still have my iBook G4 (1.33), though I'm now using my TiBook/867 a lot more (bigger screen, and I'm trying to eat my dogfood more with Classilla -- between Class…

Lucky SOB...

Use it to play Civilization! http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/demos_updates/civilizationiii.html Or use it for chatting, surfing non-flash sites, iTunes, DVD watching, …

Are you referring to the "oldworld rom" or openfirmware, whatever its called? Even though there is no AGP in these, I'd still put it in the G3 category because it is A) a G3 and …

Does the portable even work?

Great! What computer are you coming from?

I've been on this quest to resurrect a Portable from motherboard death. A well-known portable collector gave me a box of motherboards from the non-backlit and the backlit series. I…

Man I have a Amiga 4000 in my storage unit. Video Toaster boards, OS 3.9, the Flyer board and this card called the Farajouda (sp) card that provides S-Video in/out for the Toaster.…

I'd like to see if anyone else can test this theory... I installed Opera 10 on my 1GHz G4 iBook and enabled "Turbo Mode" which renders the pages on Opera's servers, then sends a mu…