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Well, I have it in my hands, and it's a PowerBook G3 of some flavor, and totally beat up.  CLEARLY not what I won.  Hopefully they just sent the wrong one and still have my 190 - we will see, I would be bummed to just get a refund and someone else has my 190.

I think you're referring to the all-in-one G3, which does share the same logic board.  The eMac is totally different, they are closer to an iMac than anything else. Do they power on at all or are they just totally dead?

There are 50 pin terminators out there although the Centronix D-sub style terminator is a LOT more common. I'm also curious if your drive/drive enclosure has termination circuitry built into it and if so, is it enabled? I feel like this could also be a simple matter of assigning the drive a...

^ I think that is correct.  The 140 allegedly does not need a system enabler, so it must be in the ROM.  FWIW after 7.1 or so you usually won't see a specific model there anyway... a universal system software install may just show "Macintosh" or "PowerBook" or something generic.  Ignore it. ...

That'd be awesome, once I get it in my hands and see what all I need, we should talk about that.  Pretty sure I have a drive or six but the caddy I do not have.

All this talk of PowerBooks lately made me start looking and I ended up impulse buying a 190cs.  No hard drive, caddy, or power supply but it was cheap-ish and looks to be in good shape and allegedly tested and working.  Pretty sure I have a power supply for it, might need leads on a hard drive...

Meh, ethernet is not a dealbreaker especially on a 1xx PB.  NONE of them had it but you can do SCSI -> ethernet, phonenet, localtalk bridge, etc.  Many options.   There is no ADB port and no video out port on the 150 but I never used those anyway.  Also not a dealbreaker. The IDE drive is...

ISTR sending you one or more, haha, it's been a few years since I touched a 1400 so maybe I'm wrong about that.  But yes, you are the keeper of the stack! Memory ceiling and IDE on the PB150 blows all the other 1xx 'books out of the water.  And it's fast.  And light.  I don't give a crap about...

None of the dozen or two 1xx PBs I owned had tunnel vision.  Some had lines or were washed out or just non-functional. My personal favorites for 68k PowerBooks would be the 540c, 150, and 180/180c.  I've never had a Duo.  I did have a bunch of 1400's that I think Trash has now, they were nice...

Are you in the market for a 68k PowerBook or does it matter?  I would second the PDQ/Lombard/Pismo recommendation... and any of the later G3 and G4 PowerBooks too, it just depends on what you need it for.  ANY 68k PowerBook could have issues.  I had a huge stack of 1xx PBs at one point and it...

LCII's in my experience are really picky about what they boot from... I was using an 80MB Quantum drive for testing purposes in the two that I recently fixed.  It came out of one of them originally and was loaded with 7.1 and a bunch of old software from back in the day.  Worked perfectly in one...

Clean install?  Booting from an OS9 CD or with extensions off?  Odd that it would function normally in 10.4.  Maybe try a temperature monitoring program just for fun and rule out that issue, there was a Powerlogix program that I used years ago for that.  I bet it is an extension conflict or...

Cool!  Excellent price too.  I'm surprised the bidding stopped there.

It's supported on the 575 but only in 7.5.5 or older Mac OS since you can use either 24 or 32 bit addressing.

I had a bunch of those Bigfoot drives back in the day.  They are pretty cool.  Still have one - think it's a 2.1GB model.  I will probably never actually use it but I keep it around as a curiosity.   I have several old full height drives of the ST-506? interface too - a couple Connors and a...

Yeah, 8GB RAM.  Doing a 16GB upgrade has crossed my mind but I really don't think I need it - this thing rips with the SSD and I'm not going to use it for anything other than basic web browsing. I will probably do some sort of network storage eventually - right now I have a 1.5TB USB drive...

I installed the SSD today and it indeed is a huge improvement.  The ~2 minute startup time is down to 22 seconds.  

Interesting, those are some of the highest rated and supposedly most reliable SSDs out there.  I have had good luck with one I have... it's probably 4-5 years old and working great.   I have NOT, however, had good luck with Sandisk SSDs.  Two for two failures with that brand so far.  Will...

Oh I see.  That makes total sense and I glossed over that in Trash's post above.  My bad!  :scrambled:

What's the technical reason for limiting one slot to single bank only and not the other?  I looked around a little and it appears that the 64mb modules are going to be hard to find. Maybe I'll order up a couple more 128mb ones sometime. I'm tempted to try one in the LC475 now, I bet it works...