Re: PowerBook batteries...
At 10:55 PM -0700 4/9/02, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Hi all, A quick question... Will NiMH and Li-ion batteries that shipped w/ the 3400 and Kanga G3, respectively, work with a 5300? I know 5300 NiMH batteries are forward compatible with these machines but I don't know if their batteries will work in a 5300... I'm mostly interested in a Li-ion battery for the 5300 (too bad the original Sony's kept exploding!) ;-) I haven't tried it but from all my reading, no the 5300 is not forward compatible with later battery types (LION). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PowerBook batteries...
Observation: Even if the 3400 LiIon batteries could be used in the 5300, the standard M3037 AC adapter and the internal charging system might be inadequate to sufficiently ~and safely~ charge the LiIon batteries. Was that the problem with the failure of the original LiIon design of the 5300?? rb = Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:20 PM Subject: Re: PowerBook batteries... snip -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
540c external SCSI, and other Q's
Greetings; I've found a 540c and like it a lot! I've done a few days of web searching but have some questions/issues left. It needs a new floppy drive, one is coming from ebay, anything I could mess up on installing it would be good to know about in advance. I've found some take-apart info on the web. Should be easy. I finally found the hinge repair instructions that used to be on O'Grady's but now are dead links everywhere- they were still archived at www.archive.org, a neat site if you know the URL you want. So I'll be making sure those hinges are tightened. Were there photos originally? archive.org doesn't save graphics IIRC. One battery is just about perfect, one battery is dead, even despite EMMPathy 2.0 (I never could find 2.1.1)- the battery rebuilding instructions at http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/520_Fixes/520__540.htm are great, but circa 1999; what would be suggested for model #'s and capacities of batterys to use for refurbishing that are available at this time? He suggests Panasonic HHR-210A, or Sanyo HR-A cells. Basically any high capacity NiMH or NiCD AAs ? (whichever these are designed for, I've not checked Applespecs and lowendmac doesn't specify which is in the packs). What's the best OS to use on these? Is there a reason to go to 8.1 (it's 7.6.1 now). 12 meg onboard plus RAMdoubler is all... .sigh. The biggest issue- I've not been able to make it talk to an external SCSI CD drive. OS on the 540c is 7.6.1. I have the 29-pin powerbook SCSI adapter with the male and female DB25 connections, and 2 different models of external SCSI drives: an Apple 600e, and a non-Apple RW drive. The RW drive might need special drivers, might not, with 7.6.1. The 540c has FWB CD toolkit 3.0 installed. I hook up the Apple 600e external drive (running another (known good) cable between the laptop adapter and the CD drive)), terminate it with a Centronics50 terminator (one with the red light on the terminator), the laptop won't boot. External ID 5, internal HD is 0. I turn everything off, remove the terminator, CPU boots, FWB sees the 600e on a bus scan. However, the Mac never notices if I insert a CD. doesn't even spin it up. Same behaviour with the RW drive. Both drives worked fine on my 6400, hooked up as the only external device, terminated with the same connector (under OS 8.6 or 9.1). Do I need to do something special with inline terminators for the powerbook? I believe I would for SCSI disk mode, but for this I thought not. The Apple drive should provide SCSI termination power (they all do, right) and the terminators with the light are also terminators that provide power if the drive doesn't (IIRC). I have a ton of Cent50 inline terminators and gender changers, but no DB25 ones. Whether the RW drive works or not with 7.6.1, I'd decide once I got the 600e working. I don't understand why this isn't working, I use a lot of SCSI periphs and never have had an issue yet. Although I've never had a powerbook before. I looked at the archives searching for SCSI but it would not let me go back more than a couple of months (that I could figure out). Thanks for thoughts on any of the above! This is a pretty cute little laptop. I want to refurb the other battery and use the laptop, due to the extended battery life the 2 batteries provides. My wife and I work in the field a bit (biologists) and this looks like a great little laptop for that- useful and pretty sturdy but not expensive enough to cause hardship if an accident occurs... Thanks, Brian -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Ethernet card brands?
On 2002-04-09 20:54, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is frustrating as hell to see these stupid $35 ethernet cards sitting on the shelf in front of me and NO ONE has written MAc drivers for them ...:-( The 3Com 3C589 cards are essentially the same card as the Farallon EtherMac PC Card. For the Newton, people have managed to get the 3Com cards working with the Farallon driver by adjusting the manufacturer code in the driver that has to match the one in the card's firmware. Now, it would seem to me that the same should be possible for the Mac driver, no? ,xtG .tsooJ -- Joost van de Griek http://www.jvdg.net/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Ethernet card brands?
...tsooJ iH ;heh Fancy finding you here... Even tho I just posted about the 540c, the real reason I signed up here was for the 1400 I just had delievered today (I'd been looking for little color laptop, speed not important, finally ebay one then a 520c shows up at the used stuff store) Anyway I knew the 1400 didn't do cardbus, I figured no problem, I have a handful of 3C589D cards for use with my (non-card-bus) Newton, but I find the mac driver issue arrgh. Lucky for me I keep everything, so have a Farallon card. But it was a BIG surprise; I figured it would just work. I'd like to find a non-dongle card for the 1400 though. B The 3Com 3C589 cards are essentially the same card as the Farallon EtherMac PC Card. For the Newton, people have managed to get the 3Com cards working with the Farallon driver by adjusting the manufacturer code in the driver that has to match the one in the card's firmware. Now, it would seem to me that the same should be possible for the Mac driver, no? ,xtG .tsooJ -- Joost van de Griek http://www.jvdg.net/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: NN Version
I am picking up old messages, but you mentioned that you have an external CD drive. Why not just get one of the connectors you need to go from PB to SCSI? They are only about $30 US. Then you can connect anything SCSI to that PB, not just your CD drive. And you will be able to install off the CD. Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm Re: NN Version I'm a little out of my depth with this new 5300c powerbook. It just dawned on me that my old SCSI CD ROM won't even plug into the book. The minimum OS is 7.5.3 and the lowest I have on floppy is 7.5. Is file sharing (which I do frequently) possible even before the empty powerbook HD is updated and a system installed on it? Is it possible to have my 7.6.1 CD loaded on one of my 040's and then to install that OS to the powerbook via file sharing? That's the highest OS I have on CD. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PowerBook batteries...
I tried my 3400 LION batt in my unk condition 5300 (I have 7) and none would power up. So my guess is they won't. If you don't charge a LION right it will either explode rather violently or fail at a very early age. Thomas Martin -- I haven't tried it but from all my reading, no the 5300 is not forward compatible with later battery types (LION). -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Compact Flash RAM success
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:46:29 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compact Flash RAM success Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: BTW, 1gb flash cards and PC cards are now available, plus, up to 512mb Ultra Compact Flash cards with incredibly fast transfer rates of 2.8mb/s, but those large capacities are a bit lofty pricewise (the 1gb cards are $800 US!) More to the point, IBM Microdrives will work in these things, and a 1GB microdrive is as low as $229: -- Are these real HD's? If so and you use it as VRAM, like I am the flash memory, it won't even come close speedwise. With the flash memory as VRAM, I can hardly tell the difference between it and real system RAM, whereas, using the HD for VRAM, things are _really_ slow, because of the difference in lookup times. Don't get me wrong, I would be very interested in the Microdrive for storage, but not for VRAM. It would be cool to have a couple with reference docs and other OS's aboard so I can develop for older machines, to say nothing of plain ole backup files. Best regards, Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
