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No crazy story here, but still: Stopped into my favorite local junk store while I was out running errands today, and I snagged an Apple Extended Keyboard, one of the greatest mechanical keyboards ever made along with a classic Apple mouse. The keyboard needs a little cleanup but otherwise looks...

Hey, thanks for commenting! I'm super slammed over the next few weeks (work travel, incoming family visit, holiday stuff), but I'm hoping to actually get to test my twin /// units early next year (or maybe in the pre-New Year's downtime if I'm lucky). As of now the only oscilloscope I own is...

Quick update on the case damage: I took a closer look at the underside (see pic below) and now have a better sense of what happened. My Portable was already missing a small chunk of plastic from the left-rear corner - the original owner who sold it to me back in ~2007 when I lived in Albuquerque...

Wanted to post a good news / bad news update: The Good News: the battery purchased via eBay from @360alaska arrived today and appears to be working great! I dropped it into the Portable and it fired right up, and now doing things like inserting floppies or running programs isn't bombing the...

Thanks for the kind words and that link! What a wild story - I'm only about halfway through the thread and it's riveting Yeah I wondered about that. I've never owned (or even used / been in the company of) an Apple ///, but I couldn't remember seeing many recent pics of them with the keypad...

Early this year, a colleague reached out to let me know that his father was finally getting ready to retire (at age 91!), and was looking for a new home for his old gear. The retiree had owned a successful architecture studio in Canada for many years, and until the late 1990's, he ran the entire...

Hey guys, thanks for the useful info - I hate to admit it, but it's starting to feel more and more like my Portable battery died due to neglect :confused: I am intrigued by this eBay listing for a replacement battery - there's not much info to go on, and the pics seem to show a 3D-printed case...

Quick Update II: I just pulled out the main battery and stuck the voltmeter on the contacts, and it seems to only be putting out ~1.05 volts - that seems kinda low, right? I'm going to leave it plugged into the charger for a couple hours and test it again, but I'm definitely suspicious that...

Quick update: I just broke out my trusty voltmeter and tested the output from the Macintosh Portable power brick, and it seems to be holding steady right at 7.5 volts, which I think is good for this model, right?

So I was hoping to enter the "Portables Week" contest over on Reddit with my beautiful backlit Macintosh Portable. I ran over to my storage locker and grabbed the Portable this morning and fired it up with my SCSI2SD connected to the external SCSI port. I should note that this Portable has a...

A while back I bought a nice "complete in box" flying saucer style AirPort Base Station, the white "Dual Ethernet" model. I finally got around to trying to set it up tonight, but I'm stuck. I installed AirPort Admin Utility 2.0.4 on a PowerBook G3 running Mac OS 9.2.2, and connected the...

Super helpful, thanks @3lectr1cPPC - appreciate the detailed info! I'm gonna give it a shot, pray I don't see any magic smoke :) Huxley

Hi all! Got a pretty straightforward question: will the AC brick from my PowerBook 1400 work with a "Wallstreet"-style PowerBook G3? The barrel plug looks to be the right size and shape, but the brick itself lacks any info about power output (it's just a blank space where that sticker should...

Sounds good - I'll update here with whatever results I can get! H.

Huh, that's interesting. I haven't attempted to fix / clean mine yet, but your comment definitely has me wondering if there's a design flaw with these keyboards that makes the Shift keys prone to failing in a way that doesn't seem to apply to the other keys... Either way, thanks for confirming...

Update to the above: IT WORKS!! For anyone else who tries this: the issue with the script as it's written is that it's coded for Python2, which used the "raw_input" variable. However, the current version (Python3) has changed that to just "input" To get it working, I just edited line script so...

Okay, a quick update: Bearing in mind that I'm a total novice with Python stuff, I've just installed Python 3 on my Mac and I'm trying to run the "pt100reg.py" script I downloaded from the GitHub link above. However, when I run it, I get the following error in my Mac Terminal: Anyone here...

OMG your Google-fu is much stronger than mine! How did you find this?? I'm going to try it ASAP! Huxley

I'm using the very slick Newton app called "PT100," which is apparently abandonware at this point. There are few references to the app that I can find online, but this archived thread indicates that someone had a working Python-based serial number generator working 6-7 years ago. Unfortunately...

That's a cool idea! I'm headed out for a week of business travel, but I'll give this a shot once I'm home again. Thanks!