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The cable is specific to each screen type and manufacturer, so you will need a Toshiba TFT cable in order to use that screen.

If you're really lucky, it's just an open via or trace on the panel's PCB. Chances are though that the caps damaged connections in the driver ribbon that sits right next to them, in which case that panel is toast. Look really close at the cable next to the caps and check for dark spots (corrosion).

Someone sent me the Apple schematics for the Macintosh Classic II! They are now available on MacDat: https://macdat.net/repair/apple_schematics.html

Time for some glider 4 :)

I actually just got a new shelf a few months ago 😅 Had to shuffle things around after the swap meet because the two wood ones became full:

I just found a laptop that I never expected I would! A PowerBook 180 with (effectively) no tunnel vision! Okay, so if you leave it on for an hour and a half and then pixel-peek the left corners, there will be a tiny tiny bit of darkening. But it’s so minor that a camera won’t even pick it up...

Very interesting info! My 190cs will run off of a 3400 battery (presumably won't charge one but I haven't checked). My 5300ce on the other hand does not run off of one whatsoever. Both are "AA" units that went through Apple's service program. Both run fine off the original NiMH batteries so it's...

Looking good!

I'll have to see if I do. I definitely have a spare 14.1" panel, question is whether or not it's compatible. Will let you know if I don't.

So far I think I still prefer the PDQ over this one, but it certainly is a quite nice machine. Thinner and faster, although my PDQ has a 466MHz upgrade card in it (this Pismo is a 400). I let the battery charge up and it lasted for one entire minute before dropping to zero, lol.

W530 is basically a souped up T530 that has a Quadro and a few other enhancements. They’re pretty nice machines! Here’s the Pismo: Unfortunately, it has a line in the screen. Can’t complain though since it was cheap. The battery holds a charge! Not sure how much yet, coconutbattery showed...

Maybe hearing that I finally got a Pismo can bring @Phipli back from the dead? We'll see I suppose :) Will post photos later.

This year was my 4th time at the VCF East Swap Meet in Wall, NJ. As usual, I left with a bunch of cheap vintage laptops to repair and enjoy! We'll start with the Macs: PowerBook G3 Pismo: Yep, finally got one. It's a 400MHz unit, HDD has been upgraded to 60GB. Seller says it works. Cosmetics...

Drop everything and recap that 840AV's logic board! The traces on those boards are tiny and seem to be very easily damaged by the cap goo. Lucky that yours is still functional pre-recap - that's a score.

Only some of them, and good luck finding one that’s guaranteed to work. For 90% of cases, I find SD adapters work just as well, and SD cards are a lot cheaper than CF (and faster). CF works well if you find the right cards, but I’ve had terrible luck with that.

The main issue with the Kanga (and likely why Apple never supported OS X on it) is that it lacks 3D accelerated graphics, which OS X really needs. All the later G3s use ATI 3D graphics, while the Kanga uses the Chips & Technologies 65554 chip (the 3400c uses the 65550 which is similar but a bit...

Still worth checking the inverter just in case. I have it marked that I don’t know whether the 250 inverter has any electrolytics or not.

The 140, 145, 145B, and 170 all use the same motherboard, so the CPU cards from all of them are cross compatible. Same goes for the 160, 165, and the 180. I think the 165c and 180c cards are different from the regular 160 and 180.