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This little hack works very well. You might go even a little further: consider to add a MC68882 FPU. A while ago I ripped one off a dead PB 180 daughter board. If you attempt to take a FPU from a PowerBook, the use of a heatsink properly attached to the FPU is necessary (or you will notice a...

If you really want to use an old PB be sure to check our Wiki for SCSI hard disk replacement options. My personal experience with CF and PATA storage adaptors from the Japanese dealer Artmix are very well (aside the fact that you flatten a hundred USD for each one, without storage media). I...

You may use any disk formatting tool on the Plus to format the ZIP media (like FWB Harddisk Toolkit or a hacked Disk Utility). Backup the contents of the ZIP media in advance, please. Afterwards it might withstand attempts of silent updates of the Iomega Software. It also should work without an...

Yes, this should be worth to be kept in the Wiki. Find a descriptive name, create categories like "Pinouts" and "PSU" and probably add a link to the machine's page, please.

I did not try this with a Plus, but any of my Macs that was born with a SCSI interface boots happily from flash memory connected via an appropriate adapter. I tested several adapters with different flash memory cards in Macs like PB180, ColourClassic, P475, PB1400, and a platinum G3. Find some...

The foam trick is the technical base of many cheap keyboards. As long as you do not mind to replace the foam repeatedly it might work. The compression stress-strain characteristics of foam undergoes a notable faster degradation than common steel springs or rubber. You might be disappointed...

How about using the "Sleeper" control panel? It can be set to spin down specified disks on the SCSI bus.

Unfortunately this device seems not to be offered any more. If you could try and request for availability, please update that link in the Wiki with a comment (like: "out of production, not available from manufacturer"). Please do _not_ wipe out the entry at all, as the information about any...

FYI: some compatibility and performance data has been collected in our little Wiki. Using an Artmix CF Power Monster of the first series you will have excellent performance on old Macintoshes. In a PB 180 you would not notice a difference in read or write speed between small and old or large...

Artmix seems to offer a New CF PowerMonster II. At least the English manual on that web page seems to be recently updated (2011). The price tag of Yen 9900 equals about USD 130 today. Add some bucks for shipping, import tax, and probably an adaptor to connect to the standard 50 pin connector for...

You could try to use a more recent version of the stock Apple control panel for date and time (like from Mac OS 7.6 or probably 8.1). It resembles several of the SuperClock features and should run with System 7.1 as well. The font should appear accurately aligned in the menu bar. Instead of the...

There are several ways to connect QuickDraw printers to Ethernet. The easiest way would be to use an Ethernet bridge designed for this purpose, as built from Apple especially for the StyleWriter and from Asante or Farallon. The next easiest way would be to set up another Mac conected locally to...

Yes, mouse tracking speed and speaker volume settings are kept in the PRAM. Before any further attempt to fix something you might consider to double check for proper polarity of the battery and also check if the battery is full. If the battery is of appropriate type, correctly inserted and...

Extended II. Durable mechanical keyswitches, excellent tactile feedback, washable (dry thoroughly before next use ;-) The height adjusting slider actually works, if the plastic mechanics get some appropriate lubricant (like a small amount of washing-up liquid, preferably spread onto the...

It is possible to use the ZIP drive even without a proprietary driver installed (or else the Mac could not mount the drive from the SCSI driver stored in ROM). What should work anyway, is to use Harddisk Toolkit (HDT) to initialise the ZIP disk. Afterwards install a system onto the disk or just...

What you want to accomplish should work at least from System 7.1 on. Such script could be used to spoof a modified current date for helpful purposes. In case a software only checks once for the current date, you even might include another script to restore the actual date after starting some...

Does the clock run normally when the computer powered on? If yes, the clock chip should be fine. Does the PRAM keep settings properly? If not, there might be something wrong with the battery connection. If the PRAM setting are kept, the battery connection should be okay. Still there might...

Formatting capabilities depend to the software. Apple's Drive Setup might need some tuning to properly use unknown drives, but more recent formatters should do well. A persistant problem with IDE equipped ancient Macs might be the lack of support for removable boot media connected to the...

Using Harddisk Toolkit you also might choose the partition to boot from at the beginning of the boot process (cold start / restart). This works not as convenient as with Option-boot on recent machines, but you easily may specify the desired boot partition holding a key combination until the...

No foam, please. Better leave some air circulating around the active parts of the board. Use some adhesive mounting tape to cleat the adaptor board into the drive cage and bolt the drive cage into the drive bay as usual. If necessary, apply some tape to the drive cage to securely avoid any shorts.