Recent content by Quadramatic

Picked up a very nice Powerbook 270c on eBay. Gorgeous bright screen. Original scsi drive still spinning away. Appears to have been a relatively low hours unit. Everything worked perfectly. After seeing leaking caps in a number of other 68k ‘books of this era I decided to pursue a recap just for...

I haven't seen or heard of an internal ethernet module yet, only a poopy old modem card. As for the hard drives, I have had good luck moving the arm back and forth a bit to free it from being glued to one of the old rubber bumpers. Longer term you'd cover the rubber bumper in tape. For all my...

Oh wow that looks great! What did you find out?

If it turns out to not be the display cable let me know. I have spares here I can send you.

I like to take stuff that doesn't work and isn't being used and give it a new purpose in life. I recent bought several 68k powerbooks of various types off eBay to work on this winter. They are fun to restore. I used to focus on Quadra 700s, Mac clone desktops, old powermacs, etc. The separate...

Also I had no idea about that hard drive tape fix. It actually works! A pulled a dead Conner Powerbook 100 drive out and had it running in just a few minutes. Thanks for that!

Great find. I used to own a pair of 170’s many years ago. I have a 180 I bought here on this forum and love it. They are excellent laptops. I was surprised at how fast 7.1 fees too. Glad you avoided the tunnel vision problem.