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    Macintosh LCII Restoration

    Very nice. Wish i read this earlier when i opened a mac ii floppy drive and torn one of the ribbon cables on accident. 
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    cheesestraws' conquests (cheesequests?)

    Yah  it is. And even after removing it a month before it stopped working. It destroys something on the board overtime 
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    cheesestraws' conquests (cheesequests?)

    Make sure you take out the pram battery inside. I had one that just stopped working becuase i waited to long to take out the battery. Had to part it out and recycle the logic board 
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    Powerbook 145 floppy drive non-responsive

    Theres capacitors on the flippy drive. Also did you open the drice to clean the heads and if the ribbon cables are ripped
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    Weird system file on performa

    No there nothing like that it says it was made in febuary1995 and last used in december 1995 so its not being used
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    Weird system file on performa

    my mac performa 6116cd has this system file called 694-0615 in the preferences folder and it has no icon. What is that?  A virus? I already ran a check. 
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    PowerBook 160 help (broken hinge mount)

    One thing i did with a powerbook 170 and a IBM thinkpad with stiff hinges is take the spring out of one of the hinges and loosen the hinges using a plyers now only one side has a spring in the hinge holding the screen and other side is free. Just dont loosen the spring hinge to much. 
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    Tunnel Vision On Monochrome Active Matrix Powerbooks

    How do you keep it from tunneling? My 170 has a problem were it has 3 lines going down on the far left of the lcd when on but it goes away when i put pressure on the side of the screen. Its not the lcd cable. Thats good everybodys safe.
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    PB 100 lifted pad and mosfet

    I also noticed theres no fuse on it mine has a built in fuse
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    Ibook clamshell running on battery??

    So today i turned on the ibook clamshell that always had a dead battery and it actually turned on and charged!! Its running rn under battery and says it has 3:15. Its been running for over hour now!! How is this possible? My duo 280c is also running on battery but dies in 30 sec.
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    Need help connecting PowerBook 230 to a LAN and to the Web

    Is this still possible to put a duo 230 on the internet? 
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    So I am not crazy.

    I think it does. It uses the memory as vram. My powerbook 145b that i sold (was a peice of junk) had that weird adapter to but i put it on the 170.
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    Macintosh Portable - A couple questions (RAM!)

    The powerbook 100 does the same thing with backlight not lighting up until it starts booting and makes a cracking sound in the speaker. The portable is alot like the 100.
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    what causes LCD rot?

    Wait so the pink blobs i have in my powerbooks is just the film? Its not permanent damage??
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    Powerbook 100 - DC power socket assembly missing a component

    Hey do you have a extra hard drive for it? Mine is missing the hard drive cable.
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    How to power up PowerBook 100 w/o keyboard!

    It also has fuse on the board i just looked at mine. 
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    Files off an old SCSI Mac

    Try removing the battery and turning it on off quickly i have the same computer 
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    PB180c fails to start

    Yah i use one of those it works
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    PB180c fails to start

    https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Macintosh-APS-20U-ADP-17AB-Power/dp/B0764X1V3W
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    PB180c fails to start

    Well thats the problem its the power adapter
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