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    Ultimate Mac Portable Collection

    I have a battery charger as well--though not an Apple one. I'll get it out of the closet and take a picture and post it. It's a little clamshell plastic box and even comes with a car charger. I have an accessory that I've never seen before as well, which is a backlight kit for an original...
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    My good old SE

    You know, I've had the Zork software for so long I can't even remember where I got it. I never had anything buggy happen that I'm aware of, but of course maybe it did and I just concluded I sucked at Zork :) I'll go see if it has a version number on it. Or did you mean a beta SE, lol. It's...
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    My good old SE

    So I dug out the old SE which I got new in 1987 and have been dragging around from house to house, because my kid wanted to play Zork, which apparently is now of interest to the 14-year-old set. Anyway, the little thing started right up and actually still remembers the date (!!!) and works...
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    Need help identifying this Micron Xceed card

    Here is a flickr set of my (since sold) XCeed Color 30HR, which looks like the one in question. Micron bought Xceed at some point, it looks like. JDW, if I'm remembering correctly, Micron/Xceed made a bunch of SE/30 video cards, only some of which could use the greyscale adapter, and the...
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    Need some help with a Kanga

    To remove the keyboard you have to loosen this little clip that holds the flat ribbon cable from the keyboard in. It's a hard-to-describe procedure but it's really easy. The socket that holds it has kind of a little hat on it that can slide up and down about an eighth of an inch. Pull up on...
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    Not rare but unusual thread.

    This gadget produced one of the great one-liner reviews in a Mac magazine (can't remember which one): "Use this $50 gadget to turn your $2000 computer into a $20 radio!"
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    Somebody has to buy this NOW

    The feedback is in for this auction and the buyer is happy. I didn't think it was fraud but the guy certainly wasn't forthcoming in his ad and got really snippy. Check out the stuff the buyer has bought and sold recently. Come on, is it someone on here? cangrande p.s. I still have my Xceed...
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    Somebody has to buy this NOW

    Xceed cards do have video out ports, though on mine it is a separate cable and it doesn't need to be used. It works fine without it, though I'd install it even I wasn't going to use it just so I wouldn't lose it!
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    Software for viewing Notes from Newton

    You can use Claris Organizer to read Notes, as well. It's on the UNNA site (the best Newton site--all free software, patches, and so on are there). here: http://www.unna.org/view.php?/macos
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    Who's done the SE/30 capacitor replacement?

    Hi all! As I said in my Micron Xceed post I managed to snag a local SE/30 with horizontal-line video, and a logic board replacement fixed it. I've read the http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html page but if any of you have done the capacitor replace (003 didn't you do it?) and...
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    Micron Xceed grayscale--It Works!

    The saga of my Micron Xceed continues! I've had the card and grayscale adapter for years but due to a boring set of circumstances (moving/job search/family/etc) never could try it out. Anyway, I put a wanted ad on Craigslist and got a bad capacitor SE/30, put in the spare logic board from my...
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    Monochrome monitors

    I have a huge Apple Two Page Display that I used for music typesetting until it started to get jittery all over the screen. Not the slow waving that is interference (I had another color monitor too but moving them a little farther apart cured that). A 17in regular monitor is just not big...
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    Imitation batteries

    I have a Dell Truemobile 1150 and it works with Orinoco drivers and I've used it with a 3400, Kanga, and Wallstreet fine. It was cheap (~USD10) on eBay. Here's the pb1400 wireless page (excellent!): http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html
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    I got a DUO!!!...but.......

    Or a SCSI dock and a SCSI-Ethernet adapter, or one of the (slow) localtalk-ethernet adapters. The ethernet microdocks are the best, though. Bummer I sold mine :(
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    NMP 2000 (My First Newton, for reals this time).

    Sweet. That's a good price for that. 2000's have a sealed battery pack that contains 4 NiMH AA cells soldered together. Likely it is weak or dead, but you might be lucky. Go to pda-soft.de and look in the hardware section for instructions on how to recell. There also is an available tray...
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    eMate 300 (my first newton!!)

    Don't forget to do the eMate hinge fix! The eMate has a design flaw whereby the hinges will always fail and ruin the display cable (not an easy-to-find part!). Here are some obsessively thorough sites that tell you all you need to know...
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    $15 for a Wallstreet!? Yes!

    The 13.3 Wallstreets were pretty famous for bad hinges causing the display cable to rip, ruining the display. I can't remember where I've read about this (I think Charles Moore at Applelinks or wherever he was about 5 years ago) but I'd definitely look into how to tighten or replace the hinges...
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