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Interesting that it's a Plus but has the keyboard from the original Mac.

So you're the one who outbid me... I have a 520 that I can't get any signs of life out of, so I guess I was reluctant to go too high for another untested one, but I'm glad that it worked out for you.

By the way, I didn't mention it in this thread before, but I did manage to get a fourth "non-working" Tibook a while back for just $12.99 (not sure how they choose these prices sometimes). When I got it in hand, it was the lowest-end 400mhz version but it looked almost mint. And it turned out...

Batteries are the Achilles heel of all portables, whether it's the swelling problem (which I have also had multiple times) or just not being able to get replacement batteries anymore. You can actually still buy (what are apparently) new batteries for things like the clamshell iBook and Tibook...

This looks fairly different on the inside from my Plus with a Total Systems accelerator. I do use mine with an external SCSI2SD and really like it. It's my go-to compact Mac because it's easily the fastest one that I have.

Well, I've managed to boot KanjiTalk 1, KanjiTalk 2, and KanjiTalk 6 on my Mac Plus. The first two versions seem very stripped down (they can run from floppies, although they require some disk swapping during boot-up just to load the Japanese fonts). So although I was able to boot them I...

This has been kind of interesting (if difficult) to research. I do read Japanese, so that helps. From what I understand, the first Macs sold in Japan were actually imported by Canon, who added a special ROM for kanji support, and these were called the Dynamac. I’ve seen pictures of these Dynamac...

Well that is interesting... I will have to look into this a bit more. 

I used a Pismo for years as my main machine so I have more affection for it versus the Tibook, but I will say that the Tibook feels more like a modern machine in a lot of ways. I should do some comparisons between the 1ghz Tibook and my 500mhz Pismo to see if I can really see a difference in...

I'm a Japanese translator and a Mac fan, so I thought it would be interesting to try and recreate the earliest iteration of Japanese-compatible Mac. However, I don't have a large amount of knowledge about the release of the Mac in Japan. I think the original Macintosh was only available in Japan...

I've got enough Macs and monitors that I probably won't worry about trying to make the Sawtooth work with the 23" but I'll keep it in mind. Going back to the PowerBook 165 I mentioned above, I managed to find another very cheap one that turned on with a chime and displayed a blank white screen...

Well that's interesting to know. I'm just glad it's not a defect with the machine. I can certainly just use it with the smaller screen.

I picked up a dual 450mhz PowerMac G4 (I guess this would be a Sawtooth) for about $60 shipped. It cleaned up quite well and seems to be working fine, with the exception of one bad USB port. The only thing is that I can't get it to work with my 23" ADC Cinema Display. It works fine with the 17"...

It's a Tada68 keyboard with SA Pulse keycaps. It's not really that similar to a Space Cadet, although they did make custom caps based on that as well.

Thanks, that did the trick. But the computer does seem to have some issues that make me reluctant to put any more time or money into it. The screen seems to have some odd interference (that is separate from the general crappy nature of passive matrix displays) and pressing the top trackpad...

That’s true. But it costs several times what I paid for this computer. I might like to use it for some kind of PowerBook but it would need to be something nicer than this 165.  Does anyone know of a boot floppy that will work with this generation of PowerBook? I’d kind of like to see it boot...

Turns out that whoever had disassembled the PowerBook I was talking about above didn’t bother to reinsert the cable that connects the top and bottom halves of the computer. When I reassembled it properly, it turned on and actually seems to function okay (to the extent that it can with no hard...

I got an untested PowerBook 165c very cheaply, thinking that even if it didn't work I could probably salvage the hard disk out of it. But not only did it not turn on, when I opened it up, it turned out to have no hard disk inside. :(   I've tried various troubleshooting steps but got no signs...

I wasn't able to get USB tethering to work, but I found a better solution (at least for OS X). Turns out that there is a tiny 802.11N USB dongle called the Edimax EW-7811UN that has drivers going back to OS X Tiger 10.4. This not only allows you to use a modern WiFi router with an older computer...

Trial and error, yes, although it only took a couple of tries in most cases.