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Likewise, thanks for the heads-up.

Nice one @Bolle! That's a really good looking cable! I can't believe I let this card to sit around. It's great to see someone really appreciate it and get it up and running! I suppose that's what this place is all about. :) Hopefully the display issues can be rectified with a bit of trial...

One thing that I'm a little surprised that wasn't noticed is that he left all the ROMs on the board when it went in the washer.  When I (hand) washed my Classic II board, I made sure I removed anything removable so that it could try more efficiently. Including the ROMs. Not to mention I'm never...

Seriously good advice Alex, I will bookmark this for when I attempt my first recap.

I'd definitely be interested in this if you can post it to the UK. $40 seems very reasonable.

I replaced the switch in mine, it's a standard rocker switch that can be found all over eBay. I was tempted to fit a glowing one in there but stuck with a black one.  Few wires? Should only be two (positive and negative / red and black).

Box doesn't look that bad really. The polys atleast all good. I'd keep it if you have storage space.

Oh them? Yeah I have a few of those. But seriously, I read about that. Seems really bizarre that they didn't make it past the pre production stage being as the drives are so easily removable. I suppose my only upgrade options are the external display and memory. I should think finding either...

As promised, albeit a few hours late (sorry it's a bit dark): Since taking the pictures I've gutted the battery pack, with great difficulty I might add (what a mess!). So now there's no more gaping holes. Does anyone know if there was a CD-ROM drive for these?

I did spot the PCMCIA slots on the side, that will be very useful! Also, it's a nice surprise to learn of the IDE hard drive, that definitely makes me feel a lot better about this purchase. It's a pity mine appears to be such a bare-bones system but the later PPC ones could be upgradable, do...

Just finally received a PowerBook 190 I won some time ago on eBay. Widely regarded as (one of) the WORST PowerBook's designed and made. I can kinda see why people have that opinion or it. Plastics are poor, can't use an external display (at least on mine), no mic input and because it's not the...

Glad to hear you got your package. It was good of them to look after it for you, though why they couldn't leave you a note to let you know is beyond me. Why do American services do this? Here in the UK they have to leave it in a secure place or a neighbour. Otherwise it gets taken back to a...

Wow. The only IIfx I got was bundled with a II on eBay near 10 years ago. Batteries absolutely nuked the board so I have only a IIfx without a motherboard. Even got a bunch of 64-pin RAM for it still. They're scarce even in the US, just imagine how hard it is to get one here in Blighty! Not...

Might be sticking. I take it you're getting to the disk screen on the PB? Try powering it on and listen out for any drive activity. If you hear some noises coming from it, it might be worth (if there's enough room) seeing if it splins up after jolt from your wrist.  It may actually be safer...

Hi AP. Do you have another machine to test it on? I have this exact card (sadly without the cache) in my IIci and it works fine, albeit it it leans to one side, so I jammed a cardboard wedge in there. But I digress. Have you checked the 4 caps on the card? These often leak and suffer from...

Probably bad screen caps. Pretty much every PB from the 100 to most (if not all) the PPC ones have screen issues and every one in existence will be crying out for them to be replaced. 

Necro time. I'm having exactly the same problem. It tripped as I was trying to initialise an external SCSI drive for my Plus (thankfully I was only testing it at the time). But when rearming the RCD after the Mac Plus was switched off, it went off a couple of minutes later. Scared the shit out...

7.1 is definitely the way to go on these with the original 030 motherboard.  I'm lucky that I have a "Mystic" one, that's on 7.5.5 and that's spritly to say the least! Personally I follow these rules from experience but there's no true right or wrong: 68k and 020: System 6.0.8 16MHz - 25MHz...

Isn't this a passive matrix display? I'm pretty sure this is normal, albeit probably made worse by leaky caps.  Replacing them will likely reduce it but it's not likely to eliminate it due to the nature of them kind of display's.

Pretty sure I got a disk image of it on my Emu.  Here: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/dark-castle-color I said "Colour Versions", this may be the only one on colour. I can't remember off the top of my head.