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All this talk of PowerBooks lately made me start looking and I ended up impulse buying a 190cs.  No hard drive, caddy, or power supply but it was cheap-ish and looks to be in good shape and allegedly tested and working.  Pretty sure I have a power supply for it, might need leads on a hard drive...

Meh, ethernet is not a dealbreaker especially on a 1xx PB.  NONE of them had it but you can do SCSI -> ethernet, phonenet, localtalk bridge, etc.  Many options.   There is no ADB port and no video out port on the 150 but I never used those anyway.  Also not a dealbreaker. The IDE drive is...

ISTR sending you one or more, haha, it's been a few years since I touched a 1400 so maybe I'm wrong about that.  But yes, you are the keeper of the stack! Memory ceiling and IDE on the PB150 blows all the other 1xx 'books out of the water.  And it's fast.  And light.  I don't give a crap about...

None of the dozen or two 1xx PBs I owned had tunnel vision.  Some had lines or were washed out or just non-functional. My personal favorites for 68k PowerBooks would be the 540c, 150, and 180/180c.  I've never had a Duo.  I did have a bunch of 1400's that I think Trash has now, they were nice...

Are you in the market for a 68k PowerBook or does it matter?  I would second the PDQ/Lombard/Pismo recommendation... and any of the later G3 and G4 PowerBooks too, it just depends on what you need it for.  ANY 68k PowerBook could have issues.  I had a huge stack of 1xx PBs at one point and it...

LCII's in my experience are really picky about what they boot from... I was using an 80MB Quantum drive for testing purposes in the two that I recently fixed.  It came out of one of them originally and was loaded with 7.1 and a bunch of old software from back in the day.  Worked perfectly in one...

Clean install?  Booting from an OS9 CD or with extensions off?  Odd that it would function normally in 10.4.  Maybe try a temperature monitoring program just for fun and rule out that issue, there was a Powerlogix program that I used years ago for that.  I bet it is an extension conflict or...

Cool!  Excellent price too.  I'm surprised the bidding stopped there.

It's supported on the 575 but only in 7.5.5 or older Mac OS since you can use either 24 or 32 bit addressing.

I had a bunch of those Bigfoot drives back in the day.  They are pretty cool.  Still have one - think it's a 2.1GB model.  I will probably never actually use it but I keep it around as a curiosity.   I have several old full height drives of the ST-506? interface too - a couple Connors and a...

Yeah, 8GB RAM.  Doing a 16GB upgrade has crossed my mind but I really don't think I need it - this thing rips with the SSD and I'm not going to use it for anything other than basic web browsing. I will probably do some sort of network storage eventually - right now I have a 1.5TB USB drive...

I installed the SSD today and it indeed is a huge improvement.  The ~2 minute startup time is down to 22 seconds.  

Interesting, those are some of the highest rated and supposedly most reliable SSDs out there.  I have had good luck with one I have... it's probably 4-5 years old and working great.   I have NOT, however, had good luck with Sandisk SSDs.  Two for two failures with that brand so far.  Will...

Oh I see.  That makes total sense and I glossed over that in Trash's post above.  My bad!  :scrambled:

What's the technical reason for limiting one slot to single bank only and not the other?  I looked around a little and it appears that the 64mb modules are going to be hard to find. Maybe I'll order up a couple more 128mb ones sometime. I'm tempted to try one in the LC475 now, I bet it works...

This is just my own experience here but I have had more dead Western Digital drives than any others by FAR.  That's including everything from the smallest IDE drives up to the present.  Lately it seems like their "Blue" line has the most failures.  Lots of dead Toshibas too... I never...

I would really advise against opening up every drive you've got unless it's found to have issues.  You are just inviting dust and other crap in, they are really best left alone.   The vast majority of my old 50 pin drives are still working great.  There were quite a few Quantums that died over...

Hmm, now to find a 64MB single bank SIMM.  I know the 32MB and 64MB ones I have now will not work in the single bank slot.   FWIW this 128MB stick I got was from "memorymasters" on eBay and is FPM, non-parity, 60ns

Well, it appears that it also supports 128MB modules!  Sweet! I also have confirmation that the DOS card definitely does NOT support my 64MB stick.  It showed up as a 16MB module.  32MB works fine.  Kinda weird but whatever.

The rubber bumper in question is attached to the magnet, correct?  I found one there and it's in good shape.  I understand that there's one under the platter too, but the head doesn't appear to get stuck there and it moves freely as long as it can't get stuck on that parking brake deal.  I will...