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At the moment I'm working on the revival of a PB 190cs, I got this unit a few days ago..I like the idea this is the last 68k machine of all powerbooks before and the fact that is similar to the 540 machines but with pcmcia, basically..and its actuall small footprint, smaller than the 3400.. of...

I was looking for a PowerBook 2400 but found them too few and rare and expensive but I thought they reminded me quite a bit of my very first laptop I had, a Dell Latitude C-series..these PIII machines are easy to find and quite cheap. So I found a Latitude CPi-R 400GT locally very cheap. I...

maybe its just a little thing, but what is that when you copy a running system to another disk and then after booting former normal working installers etc appear as ' pc file' under Mac Os 9.x.x? yesterday I did set up my PowerBook Titanium 800 Mhz with three new partitions, one with Tiger, one...

The Clock Chipping page refers to overclocking diverse vintage Macs with swapping the quarz crystals. About the PowerBook 3400/180Mhz Speedup it says: ''The PB3400c/180 has a 40MHz bus and a 4.5x multiplier to give the 180MHz machine. The 40MHz bus comes from a silver 40MHz crystal (two pins)...

I want to use an 3com Etherlink Lan card in my powerbook, but it lacks the dongle. There is another 3com card with a dongle but I wonder if its dongle fits the 3C589D. of course the Megahertz one is a newer PC Card ( not PCMCIA).

Got my BlueScsi kit today, it works.. after trying some installs via SheepShaver I wonder how to add bootable CD images to the .hda file sd card. I mean you just simply add the blank system image and after that the install CD/ image in the sheepshaver menu, thats no prob. But after that you...

I made 16 OS 7.5.3 system install floppies for my PB 520, they all seem ok but something is missing on the Install 1 floppy. it doesnt boot up, it is just being ejected. ( used this ones ). When I look on it's contents the system folder is empty but I guess thats normal. Only on my disk...

I noticed that my 1400c/166 works well, also has max 64MB RAM but it boots quite slowly, only have used some noName 'high speed' 16GB from eBay with my IDE-CF adapter..what CF cards do you use in your 1400s? I know that the IDE implementation on it is rudimentary but maybe it makes a difference...

Yesterday I decided to repaint my 540c, I thought it would be a nice idea to give it a fresh look.. Decided to also paint the keyboard, because its better for a matching overall look and matching german keyboard layout to begin with. Finished 540c: I also repainted the end caps...

I want to connect my 540c to a 1400c for updating the system on the blackbird, so basically from HMI-30 to HMI-30. Next week I'll get a set of cables together with an HMI-30 to 25pin adapter, also with a video-out cable. The L- shaped adapter has no switch on it, so it only will provide...

Yesterday I was at my favorite fleamarket, the first time after almost a year. Actually was looking for SCSI cables but instead found these two fellas, two PB Titanium, with intact hinges..the seller gave them way almost for free, because they were lacking their HDDs and power adapters, so I...

I got this machine over a friend for 60 Euros, he said it booted then years ago but it has no power adapter. Unfortunatley it got damaged a bit during shipping( he seemed not very experienced with those things), wrapping paper was added in the box but the powerbook not IN it.:p A little piece of...

Yesterday I got a Clamshell 300Mhz from a collegue for 20 Euros, together with a stable case, two YoYos and a translucent blue MacAlly USB mouse, nice. It is dirty and the display has a red tint to one side, but I took it anyway for a little restore fun. I took it apart and cleaned all the...

With my Pismo came an older PCMCIA wlan card, a Sinus 130..surprisingly this is the only card ( besides the Orinoco ) that works now in my PB 1400c. I was testing different cards I have lying around together with an old Airport Express router. I installed the latest Orinoco driver 7.2 and it was...

starting from Chadwicks great pruda files here I just gave it a shot.. what could probably get worse than that? this was the 1400 when I got it this week and then after the fix: the standard disassembly is on ifixit . Then from there: top, display bottom, 3d printed display shim, with four...

today I got a nice working Pismo 400 and a 3400, but this doesnt start at all. I already removed the PRAM battery, tried reseating everything, starting only with necessary hardware, but it doesnt even try to chime. I only can hear a tiny Pop from the speakers. Power adapter is working, the...

at the moment I'm trying to get my 1400 somehow connected to the internet under OS 9.1 but no success. I have three WLAN cards just for getting any connection, a Cisco Aironet 350, a Enterasys RoamAbout DS CSIBD-AA-128 and a iWavePort WL11A. The RoamAbout is actually a rebranded Orinoco, it...

are the CPU/ RAM daugtherboards from the same family actually swappable? eg the 266Mhz board from a 14" PDQ to a 12" 233Mhz PDQ , both late 89?

is there a site that provides serial dating for PowerBooks/Macs before 1999? eg EveryMac won't for 1400s or 3400s..

Does somebody know on what installation CD the latest firmware upgrades for the PowerBook 1400 are? I found some on a 9.1 Pismo install CD but these are only for PBs with FireWire (latest 4.1.8. version). currently I have 77D.32F3..