Recent content by dankcomputing

This is really impressive. I'll be giving it a try. Thank you so much for this!

I have checked all over the net. All that's left are cheapo ones that do not have high byte termination, which means they work with next to no drives. For that matter I can't seem to find 68-50 adapters with high byte termination either.

Tried the 128GB version of this guy, having high hopes. Doesn't boot. It shipped with the ID already jumpered, but if you remove that jumper it apparently IDs as Slave, which is the reverse of how all actual 2.5 hard drives behave. The Wallstreet's connector extends into the jumper area, so...

I get away with using 32GB CFs in the IDE bay all the time. What brand/adapter are you using? I've had good luck with SanDisk Extreme 32GB cards, and bigger cards up to 128GB should work.

What info about the connected hard drive can it see (try system profiler) and does that info look corrupted? could be a hardware/cable issue

It works!

Could you post a Gerber version of the Wallstreet PCB file? I've been waiting years to be able to rebuild these batteries and this is just the thing to make it as painless as possible.

I'm seeing this too. I swapped a 300 mhz CPU card into a 266 and Apple System Profiler reports it as 450 mhz. Any idea where this is coming from? It's not PRAM because none of the PRAM batteries in these work anymore. I did a PMU reset and there was no change. Maybe something in OpenFirmware?

That looks like it could be the part. Thanks for finding it! I don't want to do a direct wire-up because the LCD has tunneling anyway and I'm hoping to get it baked or replaced at some point.

Does anyone know the make/model/part number of the ribbon cable connector on the PB170 LCD? This would be part of the Hosiden HLR1014 and not in any Apple service manual. I have one here that won't make proper contact even though it's been cleaned and reflowed. Pics for reference(source)...

I'm looking for a replacement CCFL for a Powerbook 160. It was never a separate part number and never sold separately; back in the day the entire LCD assembly, backlight and all, was treated as a whole unit. It is possible today to buy CCFL tubes of the appropriate sizes, so maybe the thing to...

Every panel appears to have a different size CCFL.

I tried the Rev A (LM64P51) in a Powerbook 160 and I got a usable picture, at least for about 30 seconds. After that the bottom half disappeared, but I think that's a problem with the screen as it came from a very broken machine. The picture was still greyscale and there was no change in the...

This Reddit thread and this Chinese blog post suggests that they can work.

These cards are everywhere, are cheap, don't stick out of the slot, and don't need dongles. Has anyone tried getting one running under 9.2.2? It's also possible to transplant the 9.2.2 USB drives into 9.1 and they'll still work, BTW.