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Yeah, Apple and ATI, a history of failings🤓 I once tried the oven baking method, it worked but not for very long..I dont know if a Pro-reballing is worth it?

oh yes, that GDR Praktika was the one I learned for the first time in 1990, good cameras

Compurs/Synchro/Electro-Compurs/Copals/Prontor, all central shutters have the same origin, from old 6x6/6x9 middle format folders to 8x10", they all are the same basically, they just got more refined and bigger. I'm not an expert on this but I got most of them repaired again. Yes, a well-light...

vintage watches..fascinating, you need a lot of patience and very good hand/finger skills for that I guess. I have done a lot of repairs on ancient large format/ view cameras with Compur shutters, the complicated internals often remind me of those of watches, a lot of cogwheel/ springs for...

totally, it seems that an all new metal case was enough 'new' engineering for them to go on for years.. then unibody.. when I look into a G4 I instantly am back to the year 1999/ early 2000..IDE, IDE cables, ATI Radeon 7500, VGA, 4:5 ratio, CD-R/DVD, aluminum plate heat sinks, 56k modem, Riva...

that large Jimmy Page book on top of the shelf also looks very interesting..

Do you have a photo of that paste, is it creamy and white? Normally any modern, good thermal paste will do (like said Arctic).. When I recently did a repaste job on my new MSI gaming Laptop I saw that they stock used a white thick paste on all near voltage transformers under the heatsink...

this is the Orinoco version with complete installer that worked most of the time on my machines with 8/ 9 and my Orinoco Gold/Silver or equivalents..other WaveLan versions didnt, it correctly recognizes the chip version

In a Pismo (400/500 Mhz) you already can use a regular Airport Extreme Type I/II PC CardBus WiFi card. I always use a fully compatible, easy available and cheap Gigaset Siemens 54 PcCard in it. OsX Tiger nativley recognizes it as AirPort Extreme ( Lucent chipset). No need for special drivers and...

I had a Pismo with a standard G3 400 Mhz daugtherboard with booting problems, I carefully removed the board and inspected it..two little pins were ever so slightly crooked, I carefully bent it back..it never booted again..temper temper I hate those connector boards, the latest 500 mhz models had...

well done..nice! the display brightness and contrast also look quite good.. nice to see one of those rare 550 birds in working condition. the slightly bigger screen of the 550c is nice. the brighter grey plastics color scheme, yes it looks more like the 520/540..if the original state isnt the...

I just disassembled the old drive of my junk 3400c, the CD seems very different from the 1400, more squarish https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/powerbook-1400-cd-rom.31498/#post-462440

That is the 166mhz board? I cant remember seeing on mine that slim aluminium rail on the top of the board back..have to look that up

thats a really cool looking product/conversion kit..the inner innards remind me of much later iMacs as they also incorporated basically mobile architecture.

great job ..uh, I'd like to have a full 68040 in my 540c, not daring to dream of an even rarer PPC 117Mhz upgrade card.:cool:

It also just can be a dodgy install on the old hdd, I had strange errors/probs.. after a fresh install it was ok.

I wouldnt try out any hard chemicals on that old vintage brittle plastics..the weakening is much worse. If I wanted to restore this I would respray it with a vintage white spray color. And before that I would check how good that old black spray job was done.. meaning, looking for color run...

I dont think that would make a big difference, as long as it isnt slower than 70ns..I had my 540c board populated with chips of this funky looking ram stick..I chose this because it had slim type chips. they are now mixed, 2100 AT-6 and 2100 ALLT-7. here 32mB reference boards

can you post some photos from the insides? also from the powerboard.. here are some pics https://oldcrap.org/2022/05/31/apple-macintosh-powerbook-5300cs/ RAM is soldered onboard, 8, 16, 32 MB depending on model.

wow that machine has seen better days, I remember we had one of thsoe in our graphics agency. Good luck with the restauration, I really would recommend taking it all apart, cleaning it thoroughly, recap everything before usage. .. like Bruce on YT, it will be worth it. The sticky brown dust...