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On the page advertising a SCM PCD-50B SCSI Card reader there are some hints given regarding the SCSI bus termination. That page tells: "APPLE USERS: Some old Apple II scsi cards do not support luns or termination power. you may need to hack a diode for term power. If your controller does NOT...

The PB160/180 daughter boards will not go into the 140 or 145. RAM expansion cards were differently specified for 140/170 and 160/180 series. Both types will work at least in the 160/180, but the older types may throttle RAM throughput in the newer machines. For the 170 a second video card was...

Most likely the PB 170 is not able to boot from a RAM disk without the help of some storage device that holds the RAM disk contents as long as the computer is off. Also it always will need a helper disk to cold boot a system up to a point to make a RAM disk operational (i.e. boot from a System...

Yes, that's what I found in some Mac configurations on one hand. On the other hand with another Mac OS configuration on the very same machine SCSI Probe mounted three different volumes on three media using three different LUNs (using a PowerMac G3 with SCM PCD-60B). Both configurations used Mac...

Just in case someone stumbles across a SCM PCD-60B multi card reader: this device has been manufactured in different flavours, for read only purpose and for read and write access. I bought one that was pulled from a self service photo printer. It came with firmware version 01.13, which does not...

Consider to double check for proper termination of the SCSI bus. Most likely the card reader will have a jumper to enable or disable internal termination, usually near the SCSI ID jumper block. Make sure internal termination is off if you use it in an external enclosure and use an external...

For a leak proof assembly there needs to be a vent that allows gas from the battery to escape (avoid building up pressure in a sealed container), there needs to be some space or a getter inside the container to collect any liquid that may come out of the battery (probably a piece of toilet...

How about using onlyonemac's suggestion and to combine the voltage regulator with the computers own PSU: tap some Volts through the voltage regulator to power the clock chip and add a delay circuit to power up the mainboard only a second later. Get the correct time from a time server and run an...

I apologize for missing some SheepShavers malfunctions. I use it for a special drawing application I purchased years ago and it works perfectly well for that purpose, very stable and fast. The current vendor of the software asks half a Kilobuck for an OS X version of the software that combines...

Used EIZO L365 monitors are available for a few bucks, still. Shape and colour of the case matches well the ancient Mac's design. Supported resolutions are from 640x480 up to the native resoulution of 1024x768, which is nice to use with the image diagonal of 15" (37.5 cm). It has VGA and DVI...

Good point. One should consider to keep the battery on the outside of any machine that is not frequently cared for. Even recent battery makes have a tendency to leak when discharged (nasty corrosive stuff comes out). Simply attach the external battery connector or battery holder to the back...

Do not forget that you need to stick with 10.4 instead of 10.5 if you need Apple's Classic support. As SheepShaver on recent Intel gear is a well working solution I would think twice if I wanted to buy outdated hardware to run the emulation of an even older system software.

The notice on leaking caps on the display PCB of PB Duos reminds me to the problem of moribund TFT panels in some PB 180 machines. Did someone investigate if the display malfunction might be caused just by a capacitor leakage and therefore could be fixed?

The problem might be connected to the firmware version of the card reader device. A while ago I purchased a similar drive and it turned out to formerly be used in a self service photo printer machine. The firmware version in my device enables read operation, only. The Mac seems to be able to...

I use FireWire with an old G3 and a new MBA as well (and everything in between). Most FW drives I bought as USB2/FW combo units, but I avoid to connect to USB hosts as the data transfer rate is low compared to FW. Getting Sonnet adapter gear to connect FW to Thunderbolt was a big improvement...

PB 180_b_ ?

I have a TI Book DVI tested with Tiger, Leopard and Yellow Dog Linux. My experience is it runs very nice with Tiger, it is pretty usable with Linux and runs _hot_ with Leopard, making much fan noise. If you have no strong reason for Leopard, you may well stay with Tiger, with the big benefit of...

You might try the software Okey Dokey to answer the dialog automatically.

Try LaserWriter 8 generic driver. Consider to use TScript with LaserWriter 8. Edit: share your results, please.

This little hack works very well. You might go even a little further: consider to add a MC68882 FPU. A while ago I ripped one off a dead PB 180 daughter board. If you attempt to take a FPU from a PowerBook, the use of a heatsink properly attached to the FPU is necessary (or you will notice a...