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I still have the old one around; if you do manage to get yours working, please share your findings -- I'd love to fix my old one!

Nope. Bought a new keyboard. The new one works fine. Issue is definitely with the old keyboard.

Hi Superjer2000; thanks for the kind words about the case design! I am on here every once in a while. Regarding your issue, I wonder if perhaps there is no longer good contact between the battery and the contacts inside the powerbook. This might not be the case for you (I'm still using my...

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Hi jinnai; Thanks for the kind comments! The tabs are only there as standoffs to hold the battery secure within the recess against the back of the original sliding case cover. I didn't feel that I'd be able to get the original sliding cover to match up well with a printed tray's sliding cover...

Any chance it could be the ic in the keyboard?

Done for now: Best I can figure: there's something off in the charging circuit which causes my portable to act up after charging a battery in the bay.  If I charge a battery in the portable with the original portable AC adapter, it sometimes gets unstable, and will not boot afterwards for a...

I've had a Newton Keyboard to go along with my MessagePad 2100 for years, and they have always played well together. Today, though, I find that neither shift key on the keyboard is doing anything. Typing input with a shift key depressed yields a lower-case letter (or the 'lower-case'...

I hate to leave a thread like this open ended, in case someone else is pursuing the same issue in the future. I pulled out the portable this weekend, as I finally had some free time to address this issue. I set it up and powered it on to refresh my memory regarding its unusual behaviour. It...

Got my MP2100 in '05; case, keyboard, modem, flash card, power adapter - just over $100 with shipping. It was an experiment at a laptop replacement since one of my laptops had died... real work was done on my desktop, so something for quick notes and sketches was the aim. It was ok in that...

*Double post*

Got an LC II + Macintosh Color Display today; it's been a while since anything vintage has come up locally for a reasonable price, and it seems like beige Apple monitors are getting hard to find around here, either alone or with a system.

Thanks -- before put in too much time following traces, is there any info anywhere of which pins are connected between these ICs?

Voltage appears to be stable (on both wires), and the switch in the battery compartment seems to be working correctly. I'm still getting this error.

I'm back: same portable, different issue. I mentioned before that I have been having problems with the hard drive. I've tried a few things; bear with me as I list them out. I had a few successful boots from the drive (with a 6v battery clipped to the battery bay connectors, and the adapter...