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Well as I said I should be getting my VL3032 today or tomorrow, so i'll first try that, but that'll be a temporary solution , your solution is clearly more elegant (and allows the batteries to be easily replaced) and this can also be proposed to various people (if ti works) whereas you can't...

The pram batteries are indeed rechargeable. One of the challenges especially on the wallstreet is that there is like zero available space anywhere. My solution clearly goes along with replacing the hard disk, which frees up around 1/2 of a 2,5" in height, enough to put either two vl3032 (but not...

You could be on to something indeed. Great find. I would say this only affects some type of adapters however. I'll get to the bottom of it, I always do :)

Speaking of the charger ; does anyone have a method to open them ? The big gray bricks ones I mean I agree with the above comment about always using modern alternatives, but I have a non working original "brick" and i'd like to fix it, but I don't see how to open it without breaking it (or...

I'll work on that when I receive my 512MB of ram, so that I do the two at once I always look with a lot of "modesty" at what engineers designed, especially back in the days. I'm sure there is a reason why they went for what seems to be a very complicated solution, providing way too much power...

Hey everyone, I opened a similar post on the great MacOS9Lives forum (which I recommend by the way) http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,6671.0.html But I'd like to benefit from the 68Kmla wisdom as my problem is more "vintage computing" than Macos9 related, I think. I'm replacing...

It seems to want +3V and -3V and their awful solution was with six 50mAh units Indeed they seem to want 150mAh (per side, 300mAh total) which is an awful lot to me. In the nineties, most cells were 3Volts. Which makes replacing this wiht modern units really complicated. I think it is feasible...

clearly the pram contains sometiing related to the hard disk, otherwise I don't see how my "stock" spinning hdd suddenly refuses to boot ( question mark floppy), after playing with CF, until you reset pram, and then it boots again. I've browsed the web and did not find any official info about...

I've reseated the RAMs and replaced the thermal paste on the cpu (which was as dry as can be) . Not that. I believe this is yet again PRAM related. After trying 3 different CFs, ending up in all kind of errors from refusing to write to refusing to boot , I let it go and packed all my CF to put...

Interesting ! Thanks for sharing, For the moment that's not my only problem anymore ; now for some strange reason I can't seem to reliably write on disk anymore. Copying files is super slow (stuck at the beginning), trying to decompress Macos9lives Image on my disk gives write errors or...

Sorry for posting this in 68K, please someone move my thread to PPC.

Odd issue, I'm repairing a G3 PDQ, when I got it it worked fine , except that it crashes (system freeze) when I go into "startup disk" from control panel. This was with the stock 9.2.2 it came up with, with old files and such. Since then, i've replaced the harddisk with a compactflash...

Yes exactly that indeed.

I'm investigating this and it seems quite complicated with unpredictable results. The problem also is that I have a single battery, so if I ruin the case, I'm gonne end up with a hole on the side of my precious PDQ. Other than that, it's a good 60-80EUR of batteries to put in there, to solder...

Battery of your PDQ contains 12x 17670 tabbed batteries 17670 can be found if you look hard enough, but they are super expensive ( 80 $/EUR for 12 ) for 3900mAh It's more than the price of an old NOS OEM battery that may have some juice left and is way less hassle. Someone says in the reddit...

Well most of the potentiometers are linear nowadays In the 80s as they were mostly used for (audio) volume, a lot of them were of the "log" type ...

What is also possible is that they chose logarithmic potentiometers and not linear ones (for whatever reason).

Well it's like the first 1/10th of a turn is black, all off, then all of a sudden it's 90% bright, and the rest of the range (nearly all of it) is going from 90% bright to 100% bright. What's bizarre is that it's the second time I repair a screen that behaves exactly the same, so either I'm very...

Nah there are a few vintage computers that share this awful varnish that makes a sticky goo when you try to clean it with IPA, the PB100 is one of them. You've got two solutions ; either you don't ever touch it with IPA, or you wipe it entirely by pouring a large quantity of IPA on top of the...

these are extremely difficult and frustrating to repair I just finished my second one. It works - but this time I swear I am not touching a PB100 again. The screen recap in particular is atrocious. The mainboard uses that painful varnish that becomes sticky when cleaned with IPA All the 1uF...