PowerBook 165c logic board, daughercard, cousin card
PowerBook 165c Passive Matrix LCD screen and associated internal cabling
PowerBook 165c inverter board, converter board, interconnect board and associaed internal cabling

All for free. This baby isn't going to be hacked, though. You remember the 180c that died a sad death after 4 days of ownership? YEP! Its going steeeeeeeraight in there as soon as i finish the exams and stuff faster than you can say, "Sweetest PowerBook deal ever!", along with a few components that i will reuse from the 180c, the keyboard, trackball and the 12 meg RAM upgrade and the HD.

Celebrations are already taking place. I'm playing my so called "Liberation Anthem", which is Drops of Jupiter, by Train. Funny thing though is that it came in a Gigabyte Technologies box, a PC motherboard manufacturer, so i was sorta liberating incognito. Most people thought it was a PC mobo, the box looks like it, right down to the Designed for Mordorsoft Windohze Schmexpe logo. Bah! Should be "Designed for Mac OS System 7.6.1"!

Enough of my useless rambling for now...

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Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!!

Any way you can document and/or photograph the various tidbits and the reanimation process? This sounds like a true frackenmac project -- reanimatng a mac by combining parts from multiple corposes. Perhaps you will revive the machine by shuffling across the carpet and touching the reset button! You definitely need a jacob's ladder, bubbling jars of goo, etc.

BTW, "PowerBook 165c logic board, daughtercard, cousin card" suggests that there is a missing "sibling card". If the logic board has a daughtercard for its offspring, then the cousin of the daughter is the offspring of the sibling of parent. Now if the cousin card attaches to the daughtercard, then it would be a granddaughter card. But if the daughtercard married its motherboard's brother it could give birth to its own cousin. Huhh?? I've just confused myself.

Happy hacking,

g4from128k

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-- The Liberated: PB 190cs, Outbound 2030E, Performa 450
-- The Originals: 128k, Mac II
-- The Contraband: 7585e & 8575G3 FrankenMacs, Pismo PB, G4/450 AGP Tower mit Cinema Display

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BTW, "PowerBook 165c logic board, daughtercard, cousin card" suggests that there is a missing "sibling card". If the logic board has a daughtercard for its offspring, then the cousin of the daughter is the offspring of the sibling of parent. Now if the cousin card attaches to the daughtercard, then it would be a granddaughter card. But if the daughtercard married its motherboard's brother it could give birth to its own cousin. Huhh?? I've just confused myself.

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thas' why you should use the proper technical nomenclature:

. . . little "green plug-in-thingie" with chips-n-$&!# onnit!

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As an engineer, I've always perfered more technically correct terms like framistan, doomiflatchee and dohickie (of course, as an engineer I can't spell these terms worth a darn).

But seriously, what are the proper geneological terms for the various and sundry fiddlybits inside a computer. Tis a very strange nontraditional family we have with all these motherboards, daughterboards, cousincards, masters, and slaves. And is this nontraditional, nonnuclear family homeless because they live on a bus?

Inquiring minds want to know (OK, twisted minds wants to know )

g4from128k

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-- The Liberated: PB 190cs, Outbound 2030E, Performa 450
-- The Originals: 128k, Mac II
-- The Contraband: 7585e & 8575G3 FrankenMacs, Pismo PB, G4/450 AGP Tower mit Cinema Display

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thas' why you should use the proper technical nomenclature:

. . . little "green plug-in-thingie" with chips-n-$&!# onnit!

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As an engineer, I've always perfered more technically correct terms like framistan, doomiflatchee and dohickie (of course, as an engineer I can't spell these terms worth a darn).

But seriously, what are the proper geneological terms for the various and sundry fiddlybits inside a computer. . . . . .

Inquiring minds want to know (OK, twisted minds wants to know )

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heeeee! not having the affliction of a technical education or real knowledge of any of this stuff, i find myself free to make a fool of myself in almost any area of interest! hack on a patch on a kludge is about as accurate a technical description as i can muster. the kid thinks i've gained just enough knowledge to be REALLY DANGEROUS in a lot of areas! he may be right.

whatever, what kind of engineering do you do?

apple's convention seems to be that mobos an' things that get other thingies plugged into them are "boards" and the plug in thingies are "cards", other than that i think apples terminology is pretty much the same cluster**** as its "industry standard" hardware implementation record.

there's gotta be a decent glossary with all this stuff in it online, if you find one, put it in my links project. (or anybody else for that matter)

jt ™. .

As for official terminology, on an intellectual level I agree that consistent nomenclature is the key to communication. But on a personal/practical level I say f**k it (I don't have enough disk space in my head to remember the finer points of terminology)

I too, love a good kludge (but prefer kludges on hacks to hacks on kludges )

If a find a good glossary, I post it,

g4from128k

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I know just how you feel. When I finally pieced together my Duo 280c after months and months of scrounging for working parts, it was almost like I had a second child!!

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Total 68K Macs liberated: 7
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Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6

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Cool score! Looks like you're finally nearing the light at the end of the tunnel...

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Kickass, dude. Let us know when she's all together;)

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is that naked powerbook clothed yet?

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6

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PowerBook 165c logic board, daughercard, cousin card

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Macs liberated - 2

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Is it just me or...: Mother Board, daughtercard, cousin card?

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New Hotline! address: 216.130.83.218

Promoted to private June 5 2002 Currently posted in the Canadian Battalion.

Macs liberated - 2

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is that naked powerbook clothed yet?

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No. Unfortunately, the 180c DOES NOT USE THE SAME DISPLAY BACK PANEL AS THE 165c. Therefore, unfortunately, the project is postponed until i can get one.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but won't the 180c display assembly connect directly to the 165c motherboard?

If so, why not just use the entire top of the 180c intact?

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6

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Maybe I'm missing something, but won't the 180c display assembly connect directly to the 165c motherboard?

If so, why not just use the entire top of the 180c intact?

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No. Unfortunately, it connects to the interconnect board, which is connected to the daughterboard, which is connected to the logic board. The 165c and the 180c both use a different daughterboard and interconnect board, thus meaning that using the 180c screen will not work.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but won't the 180c display assembly connect directly to the 165c motherboard?

If so, why not just use the entire top of the 180c intact?

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No. Unfortunately, it connects to the interconnect board, which is connected to the daughterboard, which is connected to the logic board. The 165c and the 180c both use a different daughterboard and interconnect board, thus meaning that using the 180c screen will not work.

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And I take it that the daughtercard and/or interconnect board is part of the original problem with the 180c?

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