Search results

Well slightly good news, the 520c ended up whitening up a little bit after I left it on for a couple hours. Unfortunately it seems like the top of the screen is more yellowed than the bottom, but it really does look vastly better. Ah great, I have to worry about recapping this power brick...

Pulled out a period accurate drive and it booted just fine. Looks almost exactly like the one I took out of this Powerbook but this one actually boots with an install. Anyway, tested it with System Info and here's the results. The SD card appears to be 3 times faster!

I will have to dig up a working IDE drive (I think I might still have my Clamshell's stock drive somewhere) but it seems like it made quite a difference.

So far no contrast issues, just the polarizer and the yellowing! I'm sure they'll need recapping eventually but I don't see any cap goo yet. I'll definitely run it for a bit and see if it lightens up. I was thinking that might be an issue, but figured I'd ask and see. I'm not super concerned...

First of all, can I just say that the eBay prices for the M1893 power bricks are ridiculous? I got a Powerbook 520c for free off Reddit in June and have been looking for a brick for a while to test it. I found a 520 with a power brick on eBay for $70 in a "non-working" state the other day and...

I happened to get quite a few 128gb MicroSD cards for very cheap and my PDQ PowerBook’s hard drive was on it’s way out. Since the G3 PowerBooks have a 128gb maximum drive capacity I thought one of those cards would be perfect to use as a hard drive replacement. You need a 44-pin IDE to SD card...