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Pulling the PRAM battery from the malfunctioning computer may have saved my second working Kanga. I pulled the PRAM battery from the second unit and it too was starting to show signs of leaking. The only problem with that unit is that the hinges on the screen are weak. That may be the next...

I pulled the RAM out with no success, so I continued deeper into the machine and removed the PRAM battery. I think I caught it just in time, as while it had leaked it had not exploded and there appears to be no damage to the logic board as shown in the attached pictures. With the PRAM battery...

Great. Thanks. I'm just hoping I don't get into the guts of this thing and find an exploded PRAM battery and damaged logic board.

I'll give that a try. I've got a replacement PRAM battery from new old stock so I might as well put it in anyway as part of the restoration of the machine. Anything I should be careful of when pulling the RAM card? It looks straightforward but you never know with old computers.

Call me crazy, but I prefer the G3 Kanga/3500. It's design is not sexy. It is not thin. But it's an interesting footnote in Apple history and represents the last PowerBook before the shift to the curvier design language.

Left the machine plugged in overnight. Still exhibiting the same behavior. But even weirder, when I unplugged the power cable and hit the reset button it made the same click noise followed by a short screech from the speakers. I'm going to disassemble it again this afternoon and check the RAM...

I've got a Kanga that I'm trying to put back into working order. It's in great physical shape but it won't boot. It booted previously but the keyboard was defective, so I replaced it with an NOS one. I've taken out the keyboard and cleaned the insides and everything looks good, but when I plug...

+1 for the E-series. I have a pair of E6410s (one from work, one for personal use) with the i5-560m (2.5Ghz). Both have been rock solid reliable, with the only issues being caused by software. My personal machine has the nVidia NVS3100m discrete graphics card, and while it won't be able to run...

That MacAdvocate CD is pretty neat...I still have a copy at home somewhere. It's amazing to see how far everything has come since the late 90s.

Nice find. The Kanga was always one of the Macs I wanted when I was growing up as well...got lucky and bought two of them locally a few years back and I've been pleasantly surprised at how useful they are despite their age.

Looking through my parents' basement this weekend I found a few things that will be useful to my classic Mac connection. The first is a full set of original System 7.0 floppies in the package. They originally came with a Macintosh LC and are in perfect shape. The second is a pair of PhoneNet...

My 190 has an infrared port...I'll try setting up an AppleTalk link to one of my Kanga G3s over IR. I've used that setup before to link the two Kangas together so I'd imagine it would work to link the 190 as well. Once I get the files to the Kanga then I can send them over.

The (dead) battery in my 190 seems to have leaked...there is something that looks like mold on the battery contacts. Is there any good way to clean the contacts on one of these old batteries?

Okay, my 190 has the following: Software Highlights (this is just an alias to the Launcher) Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Powerbook 190 Tour Macintosh Tutorial Part 1 eWorld I can't find the dictionary application or Macintosh Basics. I think by the time this 190 shipped (it appears to be a later...

I'll fire up my old 190 tonight and see if any of those applications are on it.

Kanga did though if I'm not mistaken. I'm running 9.1 with 160MB RAM on mine. Turns out that the issue I was experiencing with SimTower is strangely correlated to the size of the game window. If I extend it to fill the screen it runs slowly, but at slightly less than full screen it runs at...

Cool find. I've never seen one of these...can you post a pic of how it differs from a normal 512Ke?

Nice find. Did you get any accessories with it (keyboard, mouse, etc.)?

How far down do you have to get into a Kanga to get a picture of what you're looking for? I've got two Kangas at home on my desk and I can pop the keyboard off of one of them and take some pictures if that will work. If it requires disassembly beyond that it may be above my level of knowledge.

This thread inspired me to pull out my old PB190 and fire it up. Still works perfectly, though its main and PRAM batteries seem to be dead and the port door is missing (not that I've ever come across one that still has the port door on it). I'm going to have to try leaving it plugged in for a...