LCGuy
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
So I've recently dug out my PB180c for the retrochallenge, since I can't use the LCIII (with me not being able to get a 3G signal downstairs where said LCIII is and all). It works great, apart from one problem - some of the keys don't work...the 6, 7, 8, 9, U, B, ], ' and / keys. At first I thought it was the keyboard, so I swapped in the one from my PB145B, which is known to be good. Surprise surprise....the known-good keyboard exhibits the exact same problem on the 180c, and the keyboard from the 180c works flawlessly on the 145B. At the moment I'm using an external ADB keyboard with it, which works fine, but it means I can't really use it as a laptop. Since both keyboards are fine, this means its likely the interconnect board. About 8 years ago I got really heavily into playing with PowerBook 1xx series machines, and found that the interconnect boards sometimes tend to have issues. Since the interconnect board in the PB180c is unique to the PB180c, and wasn't used in any other model, any interconnect board I get will have to come from another 180c, which means that its an extremely hard part to find. My best bet is to try and look at the possibility of repairing the one I have. I have another parts PB180c, but its interconnect board also has issues (mostly with the display connection, from memory)
I doubt it, but is there any way to repair these things? Failing that, I might have one from a PB165c....the PB165c interconnect board has a different Apple part number from memory, but is there any chance they may be compatible? I really want to try and fix this, as apart from this little issue, my PB180c is an excellent example of a 100 series PowerBook, apart from this issue the machine is practically in showroom condition.
I doubt it, but is there any way to repair these things? Failing that, I might have one from a PB165c....the PB165c interconnect board has a different Apple part number from memory, but is there any chance they may be compatible? I really want to try and fix this, as apart from this little issue, my PB180c is an excellent example of a 100 series PowerBook, apart from this issue the machine is practically in showroom condition.