PB190cs Trackball UPGRADE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I don't remember who it was, where it was or when it was posted, but somebody wanted to see a pic of my fully operational . . .

. . . DuoTrackball Upgraded 190cs. :lol:

I must have lost this one in the storage room fiasco. :-/

With any luck, it'll turn up in one of my boxes, but somehow I doubt it.

This is the only pic of the hack that's turned up so far, it was on my iDisk back in the early days of the 68kMLA and it's on the iDISK Backups on the trusty ole' G4 that was the hang tag on the TRS80 'nick back in the day.

I never got around to making button covers for it, but the bare switches on the assembly and Trackball worked a whole lot better than that infernal TorquemadaPad!

. . . and yes, the lid closed without damage to the LCD! :approve:

I was going to put an analog voltmeter into the space above the low profile HDD to the left of the Trackball . . .

It's too bad that there's so much crap under the Trackpad of the 5300 series that makes upgrading them impossible! }

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice...was it actually hooked up and working? :O

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

ADB . . . ABSOLUTELY! :approve:

Don't you remember this one from back in the day? :?:

How about the 5300 I wedged a CD-ROM Drive into? :b&w:

I think all my craziest hacks got lost in the great storage room fiasco. :'(

 

[LCGuy]

Actually I don't - though I do remember the 5300 that got a CD-ROM from a 3400, yes.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

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[Bunsen]

I had my own Great Storage Room Fiasco at the start of the year ...

... I don't wanna talk about it xx(

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I feel for you buddy, been there, done that, it stinks! :-/

As for the 190cs, that was the very first, of many, MacAntFarm™ candidates . . . bought it DOA . . .

. . . and promptly played with it until it came back to life . . .

. . . along with many subsequent DOA liberations . . .

. . . and still haven't managed to start that hack yet!

. . . though I have acquired a few more candidates since the GSRF . . . }

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

AHA! I've been rummaging through all the MacHackBoxen and the PowerBookStorageChestofDrawers™ . . .

. . . never did get around to posting a picture of that . . .

. . . and found this hack!

I was mistaken! [] ]'>

It's the PB100 TrackBall assembly that's ADB, the Duo's has enough connectors on the ribbon cable that the controller's very likely to be on the Mobo!

So this was never electrically functional, it was a physical testing success hack post, never realized electrically, controller/signal wise.

This makes the NetBookInDuo hack a lot less complicated, BTW. Hence, the SEG reaction!

More/better pics?