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Sounds like an amazing find!  Good work.  Can you post photos of that keyboard?

I had a 540 (not the 540c) suffer the tunneling effect. I thing every grayscale active matrix display was affected :/  if going active matrix I’d shoot for color.

A little late but I’m going to add my two cents. Whatever 68k PowerBook you do get, open the display only once! Get it to a comfortable viewing angle and never close it again. The opening/closing cycles on the old hinges and brittle plastic is what generally destroys these things. I keep all my...

@bibilit Ah okay, thank you for that clarification.  Was your "AA" label in the battery bay as well?

@Innes, I looked inside the battery bay but couldn't find any stickers or printed/stamped dates.  What exactly did the rebuild program entail? Planning to tear into the lower part of the machine this week to try to solder that connector back down. I did step one of the battery rebuild today...

@M235i Awesome, that’s what i was hoping for! I’m sorry your unit didn’t pan out though :/  that’s always a bummer when shipping destroys things.

Lucked out and picked up a PowerBook 5300ce from my local Craigslist earlier today.  The price was nice, at a fair $50.  The RAM is maxed at 64mb, and the original 1.1 gb hard drive seems to work okay.  The battery tries to charge but just gets incredibly toasty.  No corrosion whatsoever, so...

That’s more like it! 8gb RAM as well? As for all the old drives, raid in a NAS system.

Very cool, the 550 is a great 68030 machine!  Definitely an interesting RAM amount.  Workable for 7.1, but the machine is really capable with a 32mb stick installed to bring it to 36mb total.  7.5.5 and 7.6.1 become viable options.  Also, depending on what games and software you plan on running...

Any of the sleds from another TV or LC5xx should work fine. Maybe others as well. Incredibly carefully. If you bring the machine to the very edge of a table and look up from underneath, you should be able to see how the latch is. Gently manipulate it until you are able to swing the lower edge...

good work on fixing the display!

Many of the IDE/PATA Pioneer drives will work without issue. I think several of Apple’s drives were just relabeled Pioneer units. I have one in my G4 and I don’t recall needing to use patchburn to get it working for native burning under Tiger. (However I have used Patchburn back in 2004 or so to...

That sucks that it wasn’t properly cleaned last time. I’m wondering if you can give it a good wash to actually clear any remaining electrolitic fluid and then just resolder each pin one at a time along that side facing the capacitors. Just 11 pins right? If you have a solder sucked it shouldn’t...

Lol that’s not surprising at all. Literally the late 2009 Core2Duo original 13” MBP with a solid state drive, 4GB of ram and a hack to force Mojave to run on it would kick the crap out of ANY spinning disk MacBook Pro’s boot time (dual or quad core i3 to i7, doesn’t matter) assuming they still...

I’m glad you were able to get your Mac TV powering up! :) SCSI2SD will definitely work in there and should run just fine off of the SCSI bus power, no molex needed. At least that has been my experience. You may want to buy the mounting bracket adapter from there as well so you can secure it...

Oh then really you could run any supported OS decently well, from 7.1 to 8.1.

@Mac TV Diver your question might best fit in its own thread in this same area. That said, start by recapping the logic board. Don’t forget to rehwash while all the caps are off.

Sometimes that happens if you don’t have a startup disk/system folder (later versions of 9) selected in the Startup Disk control panel.

That changes everything. Assuming you have a decent bit of RAM... I’d say 16mb for 7.6 or 24mb for 8.1. But yes, with adequate RAM you should definitely consider those later OSes.

I want to say there was some issue with the DOS Compatibility cards and OS 9.1. It may have been networking. I think the Read Me for the retail Mac OS 9.1 installer touched on the topic a bit. If in the end you can’t get everything ironed out I’d reccomend giving it a try with Mac OS 8.6...