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    PowerBook 5300c / 5300cs Restoration (Lid Fix)

    Good stuff everyone, thought I’d share my experience, maybe it helps someone. I bought a “new” old stock battery from Ryan Cook a few months ago; I was skeptical, but it does work; used a few cycles with Battery Amnesia to get it revived from its original few mins runtime. Gets over an hour now...
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    Pismo Mac OS X 10.4.11 Orinocco Silver drivers?

    Orinoco Silver and Gold cards work with native Apple Airport drivers on Mac OS 8.6 and up. Just extract driver files and put in corresponding folders, reboot and the Orinoco silver will be recognized as an airport card. The silver will also do 128-bit WEP when using Apple drivers, otherwise you...
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    PowerBook 5300 Power/DC Board Recap

    Anyone have any details on where to get new DC barrel connector jacks for the logic boards of these 5300’s? have one logic board with a power connector that fell apart. Other board has the loose solder joints.
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    Powerbook 3400c Ebay find (finally)

    So it's been a year since your last post Rick D. Hope you found your 128MB memory chip. You may considering running one of those 3400's on 8.6 again. Fewer system resources consumed by the OS, "snappier" UI feel. 8.6 can run latest AppleShare 3.9.4 Client for accessing networked fileshares with...
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    Powerbook 3400c Ebay find (finally)

    Agreed 9.2.2 on 3400c is not it's "happy place." The sound for the 3400c / Kanga G3 works fine on 9.2.2 with a replaced Apple Audio Extension from Mac OS 9.1 install. Also, you may need the PowerBook 3400/G3 Modem extension as Mac OS 9.2.2 install may remove it, potentially causing ethernet...
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