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I grew up using a typewriter. I still miss appropriate tactile feedback of the Caps Lock key on every keyboard that came after the AK/AEK II. That is why I never picked an ADK. My favourites are Apple's Keyboard II (for excellent looks with a reasonable footprint) and Extended Keyboard II (for...

In 2008 I found that MacOS 9.2.2 comes with some PCMCIA card drivers that had to be installed from third party sources on earlier systems (PowerBook 1400: Fast Ethernet PCMCIA card / ViewPowr / 9.2.2). However, a stock PB 1400 is a lot snappier with MacOS 8.1 than with more recent incarnations...

Thank you for your kind reply. I totally agree. Also, I am aware that my post is slightly off topic. It was meant to encourage fellows with appopriate skills to make use of recently developed tools for our purpose (at least as long one may access AI for free). As for good results, even some...

Everyone please stay away from silicone oil and silicone grease, at least with regard to old computers. Just by contact to silicone oil (which is a component of silicone grease) many plastics become brittle. To add more pain, it is nearly impossible to successfully glue or paint surfaces that...

I have read that a lot of Open Source software (as Linux projects) is automatically researched for vulnerabilities, and even closed source software can be reverse engineered with moderate dificulty, nowadays. joshc's comment directs to something that might be of use for us regarding so called...

It appears that the ageing of ABS plastics that bothers us so much is subject to scientific investigation, as well. On an industrial scale, the goal is to develop recycling paths to make the vast amount of old ABS plastics available to produce new parts from recycled material. While this does...

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...