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techknight - The RAM card arrived today, thank you very much! I can do some testing as far as battery life goes if I get the time to play with the Portable this month!

I plan to keep a close eye on eBay, for the time being. Albooks seem to be going at a fair price for what they can do now a days, but the larger than 12" screen models still seem to be somewhat overpriced most of the time.

I am on a quest to find a sub $100 Aluminum 17" PowerBook G4. In 2004 I would visit the only Apple store here in Boise, ID known as MacLife. It was a very small building in a strip mall but seeing new Mac computers was amazing and getting to try them out was mind blowing. I remember drooling...

Uniserver, the battery you posted is 19.99 on sale here in Boise, Idaho. I don't have an account with them yet but I may be opening one soon due to work needs. We have APC Smart UPS 2200 units which use four 12v 18ah SLA batteries, and the cost adds up quickly throughout the 22 locations they...

So with all of the work I have done with my Portable this year I have been back and forth from the local batteries Plus to get cells at least twice, but more times for other projects. I have found and researched a few different types of lead acid cells and/or cell packs that will work with the...

I'm trying to locate some drive diagnostic software that is good for use on OS 10.5 being run on my G5. I have some SATA drives from work that I need to run some tests on, primarily bad sector tests. The software then needs to be able to mark those sectors as unusable so that the drives can...

I have found this: http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/MC68020UM.pdf

http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/motorola/68020/Motorola%20ANE%20001D%20application%20note.pdf Is that what you are looking for?

I have a classic here that gives me a checkerboard screen after power on when the memory expansion card is installed, with or without Simms installed. The jumper is even set approprietly. The memory board doesn't seem to be the issue either, I tested it in another classic. I did recap the...

Simply amazing, what you can do with these machines simply astounds me!

Ok. Well I tested both but there is no activity from either of the drives except for the optical sensors at the front of the board light up. Capacitors next? The physical size of the drive is to large to fit in the original bracket. if it were used permenently it would have to be drilled...

I have two 400k drives from Mac 128k shells. I want to verify their operation. I cleaned them up and lubricated them, the mechanics of them work just fine, but I want to see if they work at all. Is it possible to use a 400k drive on a Plus? My Plus has an 800k drive in it, I just want to see if...

Well, I got the PowerBook 2.5" drive to work! It is an IBM 120mb drive. Quieter and less power consumption than the old Classic 3.5" drive I was using. I have loaded up OS 7.0.1 onto it with Clarks works and some games all from an external zip drive. So far so good! I will keep my eye out for a...

Www.reuseum.com is their webpage. The prices for f their items on their page is way more than what they ask for in the store. Usually if it is in the store they have not yet researched the value and sell it for the price of scrap.

It does power up, floppy works and rejects without issues, no screen burn in that I could see, but poor lighting. They actually carry stock from companies that have gone under locally, as well as new old stock components from the local micron plant. They even have lasers! The surface mount...