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    PowerBook G3 PRAM Battery—i moved it

    Thanks to AEChadwick for this great thread! :cool: Some years ago I've written a manual about PowerBook Pram batteries starting with PowerBook 145B, ending with PowerBook G3 Firewire (Pismo). Sorry, it's written in german, but you can translate it with Google. Many pictures included...
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    PowerBook Duo 270c - burning power supply

    Here in Europe Duo 270c are very rare. I imported mine from USA. 
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    PowerBook Duo 270c - burning power supply

    I opened the Duo power supply by force because the capacitor burned a hole in the case. PowerBook 1xx power supplies have already been (carefully) squeezed with a vice and successfully opened.
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    PowerBook Stuck Batteries

    You can remove the battery after you opened the 4 screws on the bottom and the smaller screw on the backside near the modem port or cover of the modem port slot.  When you move the upper and lower part of the PB a bit there is enough place to remove the battery.
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    PowerBook 150: replacement IDE hard disk format pain

    True.  And a CF card helps RamDoubler to make the PB 150 fast, when more Ram is missing. 
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    PowerBook 150: replacement IDE hard disk format pain

    I did it again, with my second PowerBook 150: I formatted (again) a Maxflash 2GB CF card in the PCMCIA Slot of my PowerBook 2400c in Mac OS 8.1 (again) with it's Drive Setup (seems to be low level format as it lasts more than 30 mins). Made 3 partions, copied the contents of the PB 150 Disk...
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    Random jumping date/time on 4x Powerbook 160/165 - faulty RTC ?

    third same post!  problem on iphone...
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    Random jumping date/time on 4x Powerbook 160/165 - faulty RTC ?

    See this thread too: https://68kmla.org/forums/topic/48434-datetime-jumping-around-on-powerbook-160165/?tab=comments#comment-509222
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    Date/Time jumping around on PowerBook 160/165

    Same here with a PB 180c.  Apple Diagnostics app found a Logic Board problem so I replaced the complete lower part of the PowerBook, but with same results. Everything else is working fine. My second  PB 180c doesn't show this problem.  I solved this problem some years ago by replacing the...
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    PowerBook 520c will not power up

    PowerBook 500 Series: Measuring AC Adapter Output: https://support.apple.com/kb/TA32851?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
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    PowerBook 520c will not power up

    I posted this picture 5 years ago here too: I found the original picture 12 years ago here: Your "missing female connector metal in position 4" is found 12 years ago also here:
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    PowerBook 520c will not power up

    I measured them all in the past as I told you before.  So believe it or not, I continue watching CNN now...
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    PowerBook 520c will not power up

    I don't measure it now. I have more important things to do now. I did it in the past to find out if there are more than one  PB 5x0 power supplies with no power on vbatt+ BTW: I did not invent the expression "vbatt+". I found it on a picture of this power supply in Internet some years ago. 
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