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The ribbon cables in PB1400s and earlier PBs (at least), and the ribbon cables of PB displays, trackballs/trackpads and so on all operate in the same way. The tinned terminals on the ribbon cable contact their corresponding terminals inside the receptacle with room to spare. Firm contact is...

Buy a Kensington Saver (or similar) cooler (which is powered separately from the Mac). Install an exhaust fan into the case, taking careful note of its power-requirements vis-à-vis the Mac's analogue-board capability. Train the airstream from an electric fan across the top surface of the Mac...

Only the rev. C PCMCIA cage is of any use with a PPC-upgraded 500-series PB. Although rev. A and B go for as little as USD20, or less, you could consider that many of your Christmases had arrived at once if a rev. C came into your hands at that price. USD100 has been a not uncommon price for...

Just as there are more ways to kill a cat than simply choking it with butter, you could have saved yourself the heartburn of succumbing to the Germanic use of adjectives as adverbs that is rife, in some dialects of English, by altering the syntax to 'Simultaneous Parallel and LocalTalk?'. With...

Does the Smilie in your first post signify that the second sentence is intended ironically? If you can look at your post count—which is way out in front of that of any other member of this Army—and reread all of your posts without squirming, you can rest assured that no-one can dislike your...

I'm not so sanguine about the MLB, either. Yes. The state of the battery gives one the cold horrors, to be sure an' all, but the cage generally and its connection to the MLB will need some rigorous work and checking. The case of the crystal, being probably nickel-plated, has patently not...

Welcome to the Sufferers From IIcx/IIci/Q700-PSUs Club. viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6362&p=65705 viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2705&p=29555 viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1792 de

One person 'owns' the URL and the responsibility for legality and decorum at this site. A handful of people administer and moderate the site. Several hundred other people create the Forum by their contributions and posts. Without these latter there is only a URL, but there is no Forum. I am...

A new(?) method of IP address-harvesting? de

You are displaying a monochrome appreciation of an interchange that better deserves at least an eight-greys appreciation, if not 256. Life, including the liberty to disagree with the opinions of others, is not solely about antagonism, and you do yourself, your fellow-creatures and these forums...

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I contribute to this Forum—even only if but to read the latest contributions from others—because it is the most interesting to me, and because it is (almost) completely free of the foul-mouthed, inconsequential juvenilia that marked several other Mac-centric forums that I no longer bother with...

One unfortunate aspect of the closure of the prior thread about this subject was that a contributor who had some bearing on the closure did not clearly distinguish between liberty and right, and introduced a not entirely relevant consideration of privilege. A cat cavorts on roofs at night...

We have often seen, in the public and internal code names for Macs, in Easter Eggs and in the names of applications, that there were some erudite people travailing in the Apple grottos. That they then chose Centris, the little-known and solitary example of the sixth declension in Latin, comes...

That I know, but thank you, Tom. My (not necessarily obvious) throwaway referred to my belief that humans should not need to have their emotional states signalled by a graphic, even in prose if they take the care to write meaningfully. de

That check must have been before the PB100 or PB500 series was released. Their batteries are both round and flat. de

There you go, being provocative again ... (I detest Smilies, so just imagine that there's a wink there.) de

The PB1400 is NuBus architecture, despite the lack of (conventional) physical NuBus slots, not PCI. NewerTech's G3 accelerators reveal this in the names of their Extension and Control panel: NUpowr. The latest Crescendo extension from Sonnet will inevitably be for PCI Macs, so I suspect that...

Now that you and Essie Thirty have settled on 5MB as the RAM complement (4 x 1MB plus 4 x 256kB), the best thing to have on hand is another 4 x 1MB (min.), or 4 x 4MB or 4 x 16MB. 30-pin 1MB RAM is virtually throwaway stuff these days, and many of your fellow-soldiers could supply it, but 4 x...

Whom you will see and who will talk to whom depends on the OSs/Systems concerned and their versions. As a generality, OS 7.6.1 and higher see OS X 10.4 easily, and will exchange if the older system is the supplicant (client). Older Systems than 7.6.1 need an intermediary to make a two-step...