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Bought an Apple TechStep the other day for $199 shipped. Haven’t received, yet, but it only comes with two ROMs. Original eBay auction here: ...

This reminds of the fun times when I first got my PB G3. Trying to remember what was it that got mine to get beyond a black screen.... For starters, mine, a WallStreet PDQ, is very picky with what kind of hard drive you stick into it. If there is one installed that is rated > 500mA, it may...

Never hurts to try! Yessir, just uploaded. And there is a pretty good chance this was all done on a TAM.. :) Please let me know if there are any problems with the upload! Hopefully, this would resolve your issues ...

Whoa. This touches so many memories. I remember when I was a kid, I would browse around Wally World with my brother in the electronics dept. and drool at all the computers lined up there, and the PBs they had on display demoing Doom! 3D blew my mind. System looked like yours, but I would have no...

I agree wholeheartedly! It took some time to figure out, but I hope this will help someone else with the same issue in the future. It’s not  a perfect solution, but it works!  Well, if that’s the case, sounds like an invitation to sell it back to you! :p  Haha (Compared to the Japanese Card...

I'd be totally down if I were there. Really cool idea! I do plan to be in nyc next month though, not sure how far away that is! 

Success! Got the Farallon EtherTX card to working consistently without compromising any upgrade! I'm still testing, but after 5 or 6 boots/reboots over two days, the TAM has consistently kept a connection to the internet, and works immediately. I bought a PNY998 (US version) set from...

Well, that’s good news! If your 3400c zip works in your 5300ce, then perhaps I should have no problem testing the MO drive in a 3400c!  I had contemplated finding another Zip drive while I still had a Kanga. It was nice and quick to transfer info between Macs. Don’t see them turn up so much on...

Totally digging the site design. Very creative interface, reminds me of a Mac OS 8 "interface" someone created online (in Flash?) before I ever even owned a Mac

I guess he is a keeper then! Well, he was the first person to respond with a payment request, so I've stuck with him so far. I thought FromJapan proxy fees were fairly affordable, but I've never actually did the math. While everything is in yen, I'm used to thinking, "Oh, USD is pretty big right...

Haha, I never really calculate the fees in USD! Original price was 24000 yen. Hamada san charged me 25730 yen to make the purchase, and then 2517 yen to ship EMS (that was the fastest option he offered, or I would have used DHL). So, I think it was relatively cheap! And he was fast, too. Sent me...

WHAT YOU SAY !!! Best way to practice soldering! On the bright side, there is still hope :)   Yeah, this got me looking up that music vid again..in HD! I remember when people were saying how you could download the entire video in less than a minute on cable connection. Amazing. I'm feeling old 

Received my first purchase from Mercari Japan. What appears to be a brand new Sonnet Crescendo/WS G4 500MHz/1MB upgrade card for the PB G3 Wallstreet, Japanese model (WSG4-500-1M-J). Great purchasing experience, fast turn around time! Hamada san took care of me all the way.  I'd love to bust...

Oh wow, I've heard bad things about those Maxell batteries. Never seen a corrosion as bad as that before. Looks like quite an undertaking for a project. :/   Take off every zig

I had never heard of that medium before, strangely. It looked like a floppy drive, but I was intrigued by the "230MB." Knowing La Cie the company for their backup drives, I was kinda hoping for a floppy disk with built in flash storage! What was I thinking :p   I could definitely use something...

Just ordered a LaCie MO 230 drive, looks like it is for the PowerBook 190/5300. It says 230MB on the label, but I have no idea what it means by that; looks like a floppy drive to me. Anyone know anything about this? 

Haha, thank you! I appreciate that! It’s a bit more than I expected to spend ;)  I never intended to collect anything else after the TAM....that was an impulse buy, and I sold off the Kanga I had months before because I was afraid of the brittle plastics breaking in time. But I’ve always wanted...

When I saw this topic pop up, I thought the crowdfunding was still going on...I just heard about this today. Glad to hear this project is still being worked on. I'll pick up a shirt as well :)  

After some minor trace bridging on the 3rd 550c, I can finally set it aside as completely repaired. The only thing that was not an easy fix was getting the left side battery to be detected by the system. Under my microscope, you can see the pads are disconnected where I had scraped away the...

Took about 4-5 months, but finally found an original iTunes disc. Also, picked up a 240MHz PB 3400c for $62.65. More on that after the break ;)   I was inspired after reading this blog post on one of the original iTunes CDs by Kevin Rye on his site, appletothecore.me, while I was hunting for...