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I went back and bought two more. Both boot but 1 has an unresponsive screen and I can't tap on the screen to engage a brain wipe on it. I just want to rule out the screen issues aren't software related. The store's hours are a bit restricted so I didn't have time to bring my defective one and...

It's been put on the back burner for now but I was meaning to check. There's clear instructions to follow so it should be doable to check bothin an afternoon.

I finally undid the back plate and removed the battery. I started the teardown to refurbish the battery but just wanted to make sure the eMates worked. The emate pack is 4 AA batteries in series, I had a spare 4 battery holder and wired it up. The first emate worked great and chimed, asked me to...

I don't trust this universal adapter, when double checking the polarity I noticed some variations in voltages, sometimes up to 1.5v away from the target voltage. Also the closest marked voltage was 7.5 not 7v like the Netwon adapter.    There's a nice electronics store I can pick up a better...

Well I picked up 2 from an electronics liquidator, I chose to pick them up instead of having them shipped. They are education units from a nearby school board. While the eBay posting only showed 5, they have boxes of them.   I really want to see what these machines are like to use so I cleaned...

Fantastic, I might just take the plunge. I'm not too concerned with speed because I have an iPhone for modern organization, also I have a MessagePad 120 that I don't use much. As long as I can get it in running condition I should be pleased.

I have found a seller within driving distance selling Emates for $15 USD. He said they were "power tested" but didn't explain what that meant, I asked if anything showed on screen or if there was a chime but I haven't heard back. I assume he's trying to get rid of them but I don't want to buy a...

The adapter arrived this week but still doesn't work when attached to an internal IDE connector. What's interesting is that the drive loads without an issue when attached to a USB/IDE adapter. It even loads in Windows as the D drive next to the C drive in my computer window, not below it like if...

That seems really neat, it would make things a lot easier!

Sure, but unfortunately the $3 adapter I bought isn't part of Amazon prime and is shipping from China. I don't know if anything ships quickly from China, eBay, Amazon and DealsExtreme have all taken weeks to arrive. I'll let you know the details once it arrives.

Huh, that makes a lot of sense. An annoying thing was that all my USB/IDE adapters had 1 specific pin blocked out, but this adapter had all 44 pins,  so I couldn't test it without 2.5"-3.5" adapter. I've purchased another adapter but for the much more reasonable price of $3. I'll post back with...

I bought some items after doing some research. My test machine was a ThinkPad T21 and any incite gained from this experience would have been put towards the PowerBook but what I bought is just not working properly.  I bought a Syba IDE/CF adapter and a Kingston CF card. The first adapter was...

You lost a modem port but seems to have gained an HDMI to left of the SCSI port  :p

Newegg Canada http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=msata+ide&N=-1&isNodeId=1 Our dollar took a hit when the price of oil went down. I did another check on Amazon Canada and found a $6 adapter, so that's cool. Where's a...

I don't use the PowerBook often and do not need a huge storage capacity. I've never thought of the mSata/IDE route. After some quick googling I found most adapters were $20-$30 (reasonable) but the mSata drives were much more and the larger 60gb-200gb modules. The whole package would be roughly...

The good news is that my "broken" PowerBook G4 1.67ghz 15" isn't broken at all! The last time couple of times I reassembled it I must have detached the upper case connector and therefore power button. The computer seemed dead as a doornail but it turns out it wasn't getting the signal. So that...

I would like to hear what other people say but I have RPI 2 with RetroPie. It's neat to see the Mac OS but I'm not sure how to configure it easily. You need a controller to get around the GUI of RetroPie but can use a separate keyboard to do some command line stuff. So for example, controller to...

I feel your pain, I did something almost exactly the same. All you want to do is keep a beautiful machine running and it ends up breaking.  Let me know if you find an expensive source of replacement motherboards!

A couple years back I was given a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 15" (a1138) from a friend http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_15_hr.html. I used for a bit but it would often overheat because of too much space between the heat sink and CPU & GPU.  I bought some...

Update part 2. It passes both tests using the ASD disk. During some of the test the mouse can become unresponsive for a 30-60 seconds so I thought it crashed. It passes when booted in to OF and OS partitions. It crashes when left playing iTunes visualizer for longer than 4-8 minutes.