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Sweet haul! Retrobright that pizza box; it will come out looking like new!

Ugh...the three MBP's don't turn on. From the seller: "I have power cable for both the iMacs, but only one power cord for the laptops. Also, the 2 iMacs and the 2 MacBooks (the older white and black ones) all work perfectly fine. But I can't get the 3 MacBook pros to turn on. I am not a...

Emailed asking if he has power cables...yeah i find this lot pretty hard to resist. Have wanted a Macbook Black for some time, and some of the newer machines have some daily driver life left, especially for my daughter, etc. Plus the G4 Lamp will run 9.2.2 with 32mb VRAM so would be a great...

I have been looking high and low for about 6-12 months now... Someone please point me in the right direction. Bought some off ebay that looked right but wound up being too small. Reached out to another guy that used to make them up until recently, etc. etc. Not against paying for a custom...

Do I dare? Lot of 7 Apple MacBooks and iMacs. $375 for everything - computers -... (craigslist.org) Was thinking of offering $300, or should i just "Pay that man his money..."

Thanks!  Fully sorted as of today; and everything works great.  After years of upgrades and mucking about; a fresh install really is the way to go.  Much more room on the HDD now and it's running faster all around. Now the long wait for the 128MB ram upgrade begins.....luckily i have a 64MB card...

Formatted the HD and did a nice full fresh install of 9.0.4.  I think that is going to be this machine's happy place.  Sound works perfectly.  

Wow; nice Newton haul!  I need to get mine out and play with them again. 

Trying to install on my CF Card, but as soon as it gets started it says "The Application "Drive Setup" could not be opened"  EDIT:  9.0.4 is cooperating so guess i'll use that to install that on the CF HD :)   Thanks guys!

Getting up to 9.2.2 was just an experiment, I think this machine was happiest with 8.6. What's the best way to format the hard drive and do a full fresh install?  My only concern is the machine doesn't like to boot from CD when you hold C so I'd hate to brick it by not being able to load the...

So the second powerbook I got; the 240mhz model; the sound doesn't work.  It's very strange, i opened it back up and checked the ribbon cable.  When it starts up; you hear the chime, but then during the "starting up" screen there are a few crackles and pops from the speakers.  The Volume and...

I like the 3400 better; just seems like a sturdier machine all around.  The 3400's all have the active matrix screen, and the processor and ram ceilings are higher.  Built in Ethernet is really nice as well.  A few things I will say for the 1400 though: -Keyboard is way better.  If i had to go...

The second 3400c came in; very first thing i did was pull the PRAM Battery.  I swear the hardest part is getting it off the double sided tape; stuff is the stickiest surface i've ever encountered.  Took all my finger strength plus an exactor blade to slowly get the battery off of there...

Anything that can be done about this (the red area on left side of screen) or does it just mean my LCD is on it's way out?  Just shows during startup; though there is some small distortion on that side of the screen when in Finder.   Happened when zapping dead PRAM battery during the first week...

I will admit i just snipped them because i don't intend to ever replace these batteries or fully disassemble the laptop.  Seems to be working fine so far; and if i were to be able to source a replacement i could easily re-wire. 

Nice!  Wish i saw stuff like this in the wild around here. Fond memories of Snow Leopard; probably my favorite OSX

@just.in.time can you post a link for the SD to PCMCIA card you have?  I tried one from Amazon but it didn't work properly. Using a CF to PCMCIA now which is great but SD would be ideal because it would be one less adaptor i'd have to use.  Thank you sir! 

So i have been mulling over what to do about the PRAM batteries in these machines....they have one each and they are clearly visible when you pull out the battery cell. Rather than taking hours to fully disassemble each machine; i was thinking of just snipping the black/red wires with a tiny...

I didn't pay $500 for the 240Mhz, he was just asking that.  Offered $125 and settled on $175 which i thought was reasonable as the top spec models always seem to fetch more and this one is in really good cosmetic condition and comes with a bigger RAM board than i currently have.  Random...

@Trash80toHP_Mini Okay so my CF card and adaptor came in; works like a charm!  Pops right up on the desktop :)   I won't even bother with the SD Card reader i guess; if this works; good enough for me!   Thanks again for the recommendation!