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I had no idea that any of those things could be upgraded. I wonder if my current-model 11" Acer has any DIMM sockets?  Really love how most routine updates can be completed in seconds, and almost all time is spent actually doing stuff rather than housekeeping duties (updates, antivirus and...

No need to DIY this: replacement NiMH packs for PB1xx are still available at okay prices. I'd expect them to work fine but maybe would take care not to leave them charging longer than necessary: I seem to recall that overcharging will shorten the life of NiMH batteries. Been awhile since I...

I like the mallet idea, but to date have done a few of these things by scoring along the seam lines with a knife or razor saw, then taping the thing back together to facilitate easier rebuilds next time. But if I were actually going to use the thing regularly? Forget the expense of rebuilding a...

That sounds vaguely familiar, like only the PB100 supported it (of the very first Powerbooks). But it's been a couple of decades since I dealt with that so my memory's hazy.

That was one of the first things I checked, not just by pressing down on them, but by verifying that they were doing their thing correctly when a floppy was inserted.

Thanks for the ideas! But I investigated further, and it appears that I really do have two floppy drives which produce exactly the same sort of error messages. If I install the suspect drive into a different computer, I see  the exact same problems there too. And if I install a known-good drive...

My 5125 Portable had been working great since I recapped it back in 2008. Then I started to get "This (floppy) disk is unreadable. Eject | Initialize" error messages. Now it happens regardless of whether I have a disk in the drive or not. And if I do insert a floppy and attempt to initialize it...

RickNel, does your 180 have aluminum electrolytic caps in the LCD housing? I had a look at mine, and didn't see a single one, only tantalum chip capacitors, and all of those check out with good ESR values. In fact, the only 2 aluminum cans in the whole computer seem to be on the inverter board.

I haven't opened the screen frame yet, but perhaps I should. I did check the two small aluminum electrolytics on the inverter board, but both checked out okay with low ESR.

Found it thanks. Beaglebone must have more computing horsepower than the entire vintage Mac it's supporting!

Got a link? I saw something about a PB540 wifi solution, but that assumes the presence of an AAUI connector. I did find his site and (ouch) if I had known he had a SCSI->SD solution, I might've gone that route instead of the Artmix CF adapter.

180 has arrived, and what a 180 it is: It looks almost new! No yellowing, no shiny spots on the keyboard, no fossilized muffin crumbs or cat hair. There's one case crack around the modem slot, but a little bit of plastic welding should make it vanish. Has a Global Village modem, 8 megabytes of...

Thanks guys, I plan on trying the SCSI/Compact Flash SSD sold by eBay member "Artmix".

My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--oh well!). Current plan is to SSD it and use it as a replacement for the Mac Portable which I will finally be listing on That Auction...

Sure, having a 3" OLED display on the back of the camera for reviewing seems obvious NOW, but back in the early 1990s, it was anything but. At one point I owned a Kodak DCS200, which was only their second pro-grade DSLR. Something like $18K new (but I paid around $350 because the SF Post was...

I have a dark gray "M" and it's a keeper! I never thought the PS/2 interface would still be around, but I guess it's become the PC gamer's choice and looks like it will live on, just like the ATX form factor.

Glad I happened upon this thread because I have a bunch of 17-19" Samsung monitors that I was going to send to the recycler, but now I think I'll at least pop them open and see if any look like simple fixes.

Nah, those are DL380G5s equipped with dual Xeon processors and they're running Windows. To the right of the Xserves and out of the photo are the newest HPs we got, which are the DL380G6es, but they're up to G7 now. They mostly serve up 4D databases. But we've been moving away from standalone...

Think I posted this photo awhile back: The G4 Xserve (missing drive) is there because I don't know where else to put it. The Xserve RAID on the bottom was something I bought for parts off eBay for around a grand. XSR is sort of a relic at this point, but replacing it with something more...

Sure, you just need a digital tuner which you can probably find in thrift stores by now for just about nothing.