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Hi. Just wondering if PowerBooks needed specific PC cards or Drivers in order work with them. Index like to get a USB 2 card for my Pismo but im not sure if I get a generic one whether I'll be able to make it work. Any and all advice is appriciated, I know sod all about this Cheers!

I think an iMac is the nicer choice in all honesty but I do agree that,these will be more of a nuisance to look after going forward. Due to being rather large however, they dont often go for too much as not every potential seller can be bothered with shipping somthing like that. I have an...

I've wondered about this too, mine whirrs away quite happily though and there seems to be a lot more available to buy than other 68k Macs, so I guess a lot more have survived and work well, perhaps in part because the caps are indeed not prone to needing replacements

Super interesting. Does this mimic the setup for the retail 500mhz Pismos or is that a different chip?

Based in the UK, so i won't hold my breath :D But very much appreciate the offer. I've tried running it under load a little bit with the keyboard off to find there has been no smell so far. I'll do some more extensive tests at a later date, but it does actually look like its some sort of...

Well, the machines been in bits for a while but I put it back together last night with K5-PRO paste in place of the pad, which actually I don't think is a pad. Upon scraping it off, it had the consistency and feel of play-doh. All in all, this doesn't seem to have solved the problem. The...

Ah thats good to know, Pismo's seems to run all the time so I guess I wasn;t expecting this. Got me an install CD, its 'C' to boot from disk isn't it? Doesn't seem to be doing the trick here :-/

RAM is 100MB, so not that much, but it boots 9.2 ok. If there's not so much that is different between MacOS 8.6 and 9 then I think I'll go older. This is indeed the L2 lacking, crappy screen model, which is why it caught my attention, it does have VGA out so the screen wont be a major...

Hello I resurrected a 233mhz Mainstreet Powerbook (borked power cable and non-booting clicky HD) and was just wondering what MacOS you guys would recommend putting on it. I have plenty of machines running 9 (which is what it's donor drive has on it too) but as this is an older 'limited' mac, i...

Please enable me Cheers

Took the machine for a brief spin on the web with iCab 2.9.9. Seems to work ok although Macintosh Garden crashes it which is a shame, I was rather hoping it would be my way around burning a CD every time I wanted to ping software across. I'll try another browser when i next get the chance. I've...

Interesting, so it most certainly wont have been the pad making the smell. On the basis that it was probably used because the chip is an uneven shape, new paste is unlikely the best thing to apply so i'll scrap that idea and buy a new pad. Looks like i'm back to square one. I've taken a good...

Ho-kay, so dissassembly went ok, lifted the logic board out to find some sort of green strip over the CPU. Presumably this is what i'll need to clean off to replace with thermal compound. I've snapped a gallery of images of the machine and cant find anything barr possibly this that could be...

Hi all no real developments here, so i've brought some new paste to apply to the CPU. It sems like a somewhat complicated dissassembly to get at this so I was wondering if anyone knows of any resourses of this being taken apart. iFixit does of course have a gallery but im hoping there might be...

Just gotten around to giving this a shot, delightfully well implemented - this is a pretty awesome creation. If you ever wanted to go back and tweak it, maybe it could gain a score system, so that there is intensive to pull off riskier drops.

  Ah neat. Should you turn anything up, please do drop me a line oldsoftware does seem to have a pretty impressive range, thanks for the link!

asides from eBay of course. :p I'd quite like to acquire a physical copy of a 68k compatible Adobe Premiere. Curios to know if there is anywhere on the net that anyone can recommend I keep my eye on. Cheers!

I think you should be able to set it to mirror/extend in the monitor settings in the control panel. I'm not sure how RCA handles as its an inferior solution to VGA, but as it was there to connect to regular TVs, i'd hazard a guess it would look like crap irrespective of the settings chosen.

Building upon what Unity has said, when its booted up, you can connect a keyboard and mouse via USB to the Pismo and close the lid. Input from these when its closed and asleep should wake it up and have it output solely to the external monitor.

I got some SoundSticks II about 11 years ago, and they still sound great, although a paperclip fell into the sub and it's definitely not coming out without disassembly :-/ Still, worth every penny