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Consider to have a look at the carbon fiber 3D printers offered by the manufacturer Markforged, like the Mark Two™. The price tag is in the region of some thousand USD. I would not consider to buy such printer as a hobbyist. However, the unique combination of strength and low weight is...

On a big auction site I stumbled across item #324674483177, which appears to be an original part from a Motorola StarMax 3000/240. It is a PCI riser card with 5 slots. Given the similarity of the StarMax 3000/240 and the PowerMac 4400 and PowerMac 7220, it might be possible to use the riser...

In some configurations the PB 1400 shows the annoying habit to eject a PCMCIA card on shutdown. If that is not desired, consider to read this description of a fix: avoid PB 1400 eject PCMCIA boot disk on shutdown.

Hello, this information might be interesting for everyone who is searching for a USB or FireWire host to SCSI peripheral device bridge. There are the more known products Ratoc Systems FireRex FR1SX and Orange Micro FirweWire to SCSI converter devices. Those were meant as consumer products aiming...

Solvents applied to plastics will loosen the molecular bonds so that ingredients of the plastics compound may mix by diffusion. Usually, the discoloration is only to the surface of the plastics. By mixing with less altered portions of the plastics compound beneath the surface, the mixture at the...

Beautiful. I would love to contribute content. However, as I have very little experience in modern content management, I would need some advice to properly access the system.

There is software available to recover stuff from previeously formatted drives. Think of something like the "Disk Drill.app" for more recent Macs. If a reformatted drive that came originally from a P550 has not seen much write load after reformatting, could't there be enought leftover from the...

I found the same to be true for my PB 1400. Additionally, without a HDD present, one enjoys the benefit of a completely noiseless operation, except occasional sound from the CD or Floppy module, when used. To have a slimline backup option, consider to use one internal SD card in place of the...

Will such a setup provide a noticable speed benefit over an adapted CF or SD flash memory card? I found a few GB of storage space more than sufficient for a PowerBook 1400. Everyone who plans to use the PowerBook 1400 in »Target Disk Mode« (connected as an external SCSI drive to another...

Earlier in the day, some results have been collected in the now defunct wiki. Parts of the wiki are still available at the internet archive, like: Flash Drive Test Results Consider to check the notes in that article for useful information. It looks tiny, but it contains results of several days...

There is a little collection of software recommendations regarding modems in this ancient thread: LC 580 on the internet. Possible with this modem? Please note that in the PB1xx series models the internal modem slot shares one port from the external serial port plugs. As soon as you plug in the...

Actually, the LC 475 does provide video output even with the VRAM removed. Without the VRAM the screen resolution is just one pixel. If you make a screenshot in this state you get a file with a single black dot. As long as the video output is not necessary, the machine remains fully usable. That...

I would love to help, but I do not have any breathing 475 or similar Mac at hand, currently.

I think the change should be persistent, as most likely it has to be stored in the PRAM. I made the screenshot recently in SheepShaver with Mac OS 9.1. I have used the same feature on an LC 475, for sure not with 9.1. It might have been 8.1, but I still am a big fan of System 7.1. The latter...

Every now and then I check to see if our little wiki has been revitalised. Not yet, it seems. (I hope the following does not sound rudely demanding. Please understand that I am neither a native English speaker nor a database engineer.) How difficult could it be to extract the contents of the old...