atariangamer
Active member
I'm wanting to get my PB180 back up to snuff. I've left it in a cabinet for awhile, and the battery had swollen up and is now leaking acid out of a crack in the casing, but thankfully I had removed it from the 'Book a few months ago. I'm in the process of getting another battery, but I had a question about the battery that's on the interconnect board. Is that worth replacing? Or should I just let it be? It's a plastic wrapped button cell with solder tabs on it, wouldn't be too hard to replace (If I could source a replacement, that is).
I'm also still looking for a replacement elevation foot. I think they're the same, the left and the right, but I'm missing the right one.
I'm also considering getting the external monitor adapter and setting up a designated desk space for this machine, but wanted to know if anyone had experience with the 180 as a desktop? I've got the 120MB hard disk and the ram upgraded to 14MB. If I got a SCSI CD-ROM drive, would this be a viable desktop for some classic Mac stuff?
Lastly, back to the portable side of things, I've read quite a lot about the 180 screen issue with the tunneling effect. My screen currently has this issue after an hour. I was using it to write papers when I first got it, but the screen started to be an issue. I've read two interesting things that I haven't seen tested, though. One was freezing/refrigerating the panel for awhile, and the other was to sit the panel in rice for a day. Both of these probably referred to a possible issue of moisture trapped in the liquid crystal, and as far as I know, nobody has tested these other than their initial posters. Would you suggest doing one or the other? The rice couldn't hurt, honestly (the freezing, though...).
Thanks in advance.
I'm also still looking for a replacement elevation foot. I think they're the same, the left and the right, but I'm missing the right one.
I'm also considering getting the external monitor adapter and setting up a designated desk space for this machine, but wanted to know if anyone had experience with the 180 as a desktop? I've got the 120MB hard disk and the ram upgraded to 14MB. If I got a SCSI CD-ROM drive, would this be a viable desktop for some classic Mac stuff?
Lastly, back to the portable side of things, I've read quite a lot about the 180 screen issue with the tunneling effect. My screen currently has this issue after an hour. I was using it to write papers when I first got it, but the screen started to be an issue. I've read two interesting things that I haven't seen tested, though. One was freezing/refrigerating the panel for awhile, and the other was to sit the panel in rice for a day. Both of these probably referred to a possible issue of moisture trapped in the liquid crystal, and as far as I know, nobody has tested these other than their initial posters. Would you suggest doing one or the other? The rice couldn't hurt, honestly (the freezing, though...).
Thanks in advance.