That's an awesome haul in one swoop, I found a Dell XPS 720 a few years ago too, with a faulty motherboard - apparently a very common fault.  Standard ATX though so would make a fa…

A SCSI Zip can be an alternative to floppy discs.

Nice haul, congrats. Almost never get so much  at once. Yes people toss a lot of fine equipment. I get the same kind of Wii for my kid for 3 euros in working condition and a nice…

If you need a set of 6.0.8 disks made I can help, send me a pm

if you can clean up the metal then solder will stick... so you can take some flux and some wick,  and with your iron,  rub what ever surfaces that are eaten up,  and maybe those su…

w/e - where am i going to find a better most likely irreparable practice board for pad repair... seriously though I tried a lot of stuff... is there any tip you can think of of how…

Incredible haul!  The XPS appears nice - I haven't seen older Macs (like the LC) show up on a doorstep (outside of eBay or here) in some time, here in downstate IL.

i wouldn't say its anything about skill level with this board... i would just say that working on it might not be healthy for one's sanity... that board is F'ed up man.

Charge light doesn't seem to work but it does seem to be charging.

Fairly sure the pad repair is beyond my skill level.  Tried a bit tonight.  I'll have to clean it before/if I try again.

I live near a e-recycle drop off. The stuff I find there is unbelievable, I often wonder why would people toss this stuff. Never a retro Mac though. Lots of iPods old iPhones po…

you know this was perfectly good stuff, seems one would rather sell some of this stuff then toss it

Maybe There is a way for adapting an easier to find part, since this laptop is hard to find parts. Anyone have tried?

Probably unlikely... anyone have a 3400c logic board out that they'd be willing to take a picture of?  Specifically the underside right below the power adapter port and next to the…

Nice haul, that's a lot of stuff. It's a shame someone tossed that iPad, I'd like to get a first gen some time.

Saturday there was a recycling program at a church and I volunteered to help with the electronics. Most of the people there were really nice but this one guy hated me, he wouldn't …

I just did this, I actually just popped it open with a screwdriver and radioshack sells a 6v 4.5AH battery that fits snugly into the old battery for 20 dollars...

The biggest I have tried as 20 gigabyte (used a  powermac laptop hard disk with adaptor) .  Only issue is having 10 partitions as that fills up the screen with drives.  The Mac is …

Very good! Now all you need to do is retrobright the space bar, and you can get it looking even better! c

I would suspect that these machines can accept drives up to 128 GB, like they're contemporary PC counterparts (I'm not 100% certain of this, but it seems logical that it would EDIT…

I did not look close at connector. I may be wrong, but there may be two different style connectors. I know not all widgets are the same. Not sure on power. Also it may be an after…

Any ideas when the WIKI is fixed? Maybe a repair of the database necessary?  Need any help?

Aha! I tried it on a widget drive I have (wrapped in plastic) and ...yes...it fits! Not sure what the power like cable is for. I see the widget drive needs a more complex power pl…

mactjaap said: OK. How rare are they in the Netherlands? No so. I see one for around 40 dollar offered. A genuine with two disk drives. http://link.marktplaats.nl/m922304692…

Great suggestions everyone. I'd like to dispose of the current cells so will open up, but I also have a replacement battery that is rated exactly the same as the original so may w…