Powerbook 160 coming today!

[snake88usa]

My second Mac is coming today... A Powerbook 160! Its coming with the User Manual, battery, charger, and some other cable I'm not sure about. I don't remember what size hard drive is in it (hoping for 120mb). It seemed pretty clean from what I could tell. No cracks at all. Ill get some pictures up tonight once I unbox it.

One other thing... I have 4 boxes of brand new DS/DD floppies coming next week. Wish I could have got more because they were only 3 bucks.

 

[olePigeon]

Very nice.

 

[JRL1511844959]

Nice! The Powerbook 160 was my second 1xx model (after my 150).. still love mine!

 

[snake88usa]

I haven't got home to check it out yet but I was just wondering if anyone knows what a power print cable is. That's what was in the description on eBay.

 

[JRL1511844959]

If it's the same Powerbook auction that I saw, it's a serial to parallel port converter that allows you to use parallel port printers.

 

[snake88usa]

I believe you're right I just got home, opened the box, grabbed the battery, tried to put it in but wait... There was already a battery installed. This computer came with two batteries. So I plugged it in, turned it on and my happiness changed to :O ... No picture on the screen. But silly me didn't realize the contrast needed to be adjusted. Everything works great! It is really one nice laptop. This one has an 80mb hard drive for me to load with tons of software and games I never tried before.

I do have a few questions

As I said, I got two batteries, but two different model numbers. What is the difference between M5654 and M5653.

It seems like I constantly have to adjust the contrast or it will "fade out". What is the cause of this?

 

[JRL1511844959]

The batteries are the same, just different revisions. The screen contrast issue is definitely the sign of degrading caps on the LCD board - the only way to permanently fix it is to replace the capacitors. It's not an incredibly hard soldering job but there are some areas where you can tear a trace if you're not careful. If you need help, I (among with uniserver and others) could do a recap for a fee.

 

[mcdermd]

I've had LCDs that still exhibited the contrast issue even after recapping so I think there is more to it than the capacitors.

 

[JRL1511844959]

I've had LCDs that still exhibited the contrast issue even after recapping so I think there is more to it than the capacitors.

Hmm... interesting. For the one screen I recapped that had contrast issues, it fixed it, but I guess it's because of a few factors.

 

[mcdermd]

I've done maybe five recaps on LCDs and it fixed two of them.

 

[snake88usa]

Another thing I noticed is it seems like brightness does nothing at all except for if I turn it down all the way then the screen turns off, well goes black anyway.