3400 battery question

[Rod Lavington]

Hi All!

I have recently acquired a 3400 Powerbook, that has about 1 hour charge in
the battery.  What I wanted to know is this:

1)  Does the battery from a 190/5300 fit the 3400?

2)  Can I get the 190 battery recelled with Li-ON cells instead of what is
in there?

Seeya

Rod!


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Re: DB 15 connector on left hinge of PB 170?

[Bigbikerbo]

This is a very unique device made for a short time by  Envisio, a company 
which is now defunct.. I owned one for my 170.. It was a great idea which never 
really sold well

It is a board with RAM AND video output, and requires software, which I lost 
over 10yrs ago..

It IS a video output jack, as you guessed, but you'll have to acquire the 
software to allow it to work.

Best of luck in finding it..

Tom

In a message dated 7/8/04 11:53:19 PM, you wrote:

>I've got a PowerBook 170 here that I was given.  I have it running, but am
>puzzled by an extra connector on the top of the left screen hinge.  Where
>there would normally be a rounded piece of plastic to form the top of the

>All ideas welcome.  Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Re: DB 15 connector on left hinge of PB 170?

[Clark Martin]

At 10:52 PM -0500 7/8/04, Jack Countryman wrote:
I've got a PowerBook 170 here that I was given.  I have it running, but am
puzzled by an extra connector on the top of the left screen hinge.  Where
there would normally be a rounded piece of plastic to form the top of the
end of the hinge, this has a DB-15 female connector...like those used for
Apple monitors on their cpus, or on some older ethernet cards that points
out to the left side of the case.
Since this had no software etc. with it (we transplanted a hard drive in
from another powerbook to get it going) we have no idea what that connector
is supposed to be or do.  I've tried a few Apple monitors...13 to 15
inch...and get nothing.  So its evidently not a video out/monitor connection
unless it needs software to turn it on?
That seems to leave ethernet?  Is anyone familiar with any add-ons for old
powerbooks that put such a connector there?  If so, how do I get it to work?
What software is needed?  What system version does it take?

Well, it's definitely non-standard.  There's no standard means to add 
expansion hardware internally.  My guess would still be video since 
that is available, just with a different connector normally.  It's 
going to need a monitor that works with Sync-on-Green.  This would 
mean the Apple Hi-Res 13" color monitor or one of the 12" mono 
monitors.  Multi-sync monitors would likely not work.

Minor point, it's a DA-15.
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DB 15 connector on left hinge of PB 170?

[Jack Countryman]

I've got a PowerBook 170 here that I was given.  I have it running, but am
puzzled by an extra connector on the top of the left screen hinge.  Where
there would normally be a rounded piece of plastic to form the top of the
end of the hinge, this has a DB-15 female connector...like those used for
Apple monitors on their cpus, or on some older ethernet cards that points
out to the left side of the case.

Since this had no software etc. with it (we transplanted a hard drive in
from another powerbook to get it going) we have no idea what that connector
is supposed to be or do.  I've tried a few Apple monitors...13 to 15
inch...and get nothing.  So its evidently not a video out/monitor connection
unless it needs software to turn it on?

That seems to leave ethernet?  Is anyone familiar with any add-ons for old
powerbooks that put such a connector there?  If so, how do I get it to work?
What software is needed?  What system version does it take?

All ideas welcome.  Thanks in advance.


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Re: mp3 player possibilities

[Jeff Hubatka]

From: "D J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mp3 player possibilities
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:00:00 -0400
I just picked up a free Powerbook 1400cs and I have little idea what 
I'm
doing.  I tried installing SoundApp to listen to music but I can't get 
it to
work.  I was able to expand the file and I end up with a .sit file.
However, now I just don't know what to do.  Can anyone help me out?

SoundApp is good, you might also try Cabrio. I've used that on some 
5300's, also on my PPC 540c.

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Re: mp3 player possibilities

[Winston Smith]

Darn, I always forget about Google, thanks alot.
On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 02:50 PM, Jacob Hunter wrote:
I can't remember where I saw it before (mac update I think) but a 
quick google search revealed a load of sites including 
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/downloads/

Hope this helps,
Jacob

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Re: PowerBook with Sonnets vs Kanga

[Beniamino Cenci Goga]

You are right, but my point is: we are 10-20% of Mac users, my wife 
belongs to the other 80-90%...

They don't care about video or CPU tasks: they just want to go to the 
bottom of the doc (okay there are other ways... to accomplish this 
task...).

So my point was that for some users and real word use, MHz and video 
chips aren't enough.

Moreover, since on the G5 I cannot install neither System 6, nor Word 
4 I have to compare the most balanced configuration for each system.


This sort of test pretty largely tests the video hardware only; it 
has very little to do with the CPU.

The G5 was 4x faster than the Wallstreet, while the Wallstreet was 
only 1.6X as fast as the Kanga. So your second conclusion is wrong 
as well.

Moreover comparing Word 2001 on OS9 to Word X on OS X is much like 
comparing apples to goldfish. Both are tasty snacks, but are hardly 
equivalent.

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Re: 1400 Troubleshooting

[William Damkoehler]

Wayne wrote:

> Also, in my other 1400, I've got a compact flash card that I've tinkered
> with for use as virtual memory. In my pieced-together unit, whenever I have
> the compact flash card plugged in and shut down, it ejects on start up. My
> other 1400 doesn't do this. Why would one do it and another not?

Have you tried booting without extensions?

Have you tried both the upper and lower slots?

I remember this happening once with my 1400cs, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW I
FIXED IT! Seems to me I booted with extensions off and the card and holder
stayed in, then I restarted (this time allowing extensions to load) and all
has been fine since...


-Bill



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Re: PowerBook with Sonnets vs Kanga

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 8, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote:
Again in this topic.
I did another real world test:
the scroll in page layout of a big Word file with text and images. 11 
MB

G2 2GHz biproc. 2.5 GB RAM OSX 10.3.4 Word X:   11"
Kanga 160 MB OS 9.1 Word 2001:  1' 12"
Wallstreet 500MHz 384 MB OS 9.2.2 Word 2001:44"
Okay, the WS is faster, but less then I expected. And it is 
interesting to note that the 30" difference are the same between the 
WS and the G5...

So Kanga : WS = WS : G5 ??
This sort of test pretty largely tests the video hardware only; it has 
very little to do with the CPU.

The G5 was 4x faster than the Wallstreet, while the Wallstreet was only 
1.6X as fast as the Kanga. So your second conclusion is wrong as well.

Moreover comparing Word 2001 on OS9 to Word X on OS X is much like 
comparing apples to goldfish. Both are tasty snacks, but are hardly 
equivalent.

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Re: mp3 player possibilities

[Jacob Hunter]

I can't remember where I saw it before (mac update I think) but a quick 
google search revealed a load of sites including 
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/downloads/

Hope this helps,
Jacob
On 8 Jul 2004, at 00:49, Winston Smith wrote:
Where do we find the hack?  I'm running 8.6 on mine.


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Re: PowerBook with Sonnets vs Kanga

[Beniamino Cenci Goga]

Again in this topic.
I did another real world test:
the scroll in page layout of a big Word file with text and images. 11 MB
G2 2GHz biproc. 2.5 GB RAM OSX 10.3.4 Word X:   11"
Kanga 160 MB OS 9.1 Word 2001:  1' 12"
Wallstreet 500MHz 384 MB OS 9.2.2 Word 2001:44"
Okay, the WS is faster, but less then I expected. And it is 
interesting to note that the 30" difference are the same between the 
WS and the G5...

So Kanga : WS = WS : G5 ??

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Re: 1400 Troubleshooting

[nhj]

The date and time don't change, so I was hoping the pram battery is OK.
Otherwise, I might as well consider completely dismantling this thing to
change the battery. It seems weird that Apple made 1400s so easy to work on,
but put this battery in such an inaccessible place.


> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My guess would be a bad PRAM battery... does the date stay accurate?


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Re: Network printing PB1400 & G4

[Tom Roth]

You don't say what you're using for wireless.  Try a wired connection first to make 
sure you've got the print sharing setup correctly.  Then try it wireless. 

-tom

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> From: Lance Hinek
> Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 11:13 PM
> Subject:  Network printing PB1400 & G4
> 
> Thanks to the support from this forum/list my PB & G4 are wireless 
> connected. The PB1400 has OS 8.6 and the G4 has OS 10.2.8.  I can not 
> figure out how to print from the PB.  The G4 has print sharing turned 
> on but no printer show up on the PB.  The printer connected to the G4 
> is a HP DJ1220.  The chooser on the PB only shows an old printer, a 
> SW2200.  Any thought would be appreciated. 
>   
> 

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Re: mp3 player possibilities

[Mark Benson]

 
On Thursday, July 08, 2004, at 09:27AM, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>DJ, .sit is a Stuffit compressed file. Do you have Aladdin's Stuffit 
>Expander on the 1400.
>If you don't see it obvious, look in the Internet Utilities ...
>Don't know the era of the SoundApp, but possibly back to Stuffit 4.x 
>should work.
>Current for PPC is 7.0.3 ... I think.
>Stuffit Expander is a free download from Aladdin ... Also, some 
>flavor comes on many Mac OS disks.

I *think* it was supplied from OS 8.x onwards, maybe not 8.0 or 8.1, can't exactly 
remember. Early Stuffit archives will unarchive with 5.x or later, HOWEVER Acrhives 
made with Stuffit 5.x or later will NOT unarchive in 4.x or earlier. 5.5 runs on all 
68ks running OS 7.0 or later so there isn't a great problem with that.

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Re: mp3 player possibilities

[Jerry]

 On 7 Jul 2004, at 20:00, D J wrote:
 I just picked up a free Powerbook 1400cs and I have little idea 
what I'm doing.
 I tried installing SoundApp to listen to music but I can't get it to work.
 I was able to expand the file  and I end up with a .sit file.
DJ, .sit is a Stuffit compressed file. Do you have Aladdin's Stuffit 
Expander on the 1400.
If you don't see it obvious, look in the Internet Utilities ...
Don't know the era of the SoundApp, but possibly back to Stuffit 4.x 
should work.
Current for PPC is 7.0.3 ... I think.
Stuffit Expander is a free download from Aladdin ... Also, some 
flavor comes on many Mac OS disks.


 From: Jacob Hunter
 If you are running os 9 or even 8.6 with a little hack you can run iTunes,
 I run version 1.x on mine, 2.x crashes for me.
 Jacob

 I'm using 8.0 but I'm willing to upgrade.  I just don't know how.
Depending on amount of RAM the machine has, you may want to fall back 
to OS 7.6.1, otherwise it is usually suggested to upgrade from OS 8 
to OS 8.1 for stability and enhancements... free from Apple :

http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
Scroll about 2/3 of the way down ... If you're dialup, Mac OS 8.1 
update.smi.bin is about 16 MB, if you have time, or do the 13 parts 
(disk images) as time permits ...
also get OS 8.1 update/Disk Tools PPC .img.bin (to make a startup floppy),

Scroll almost to the bottom > Utilities > Disk Copy 6.3.3 .smi.bin
Read the Info.txt (text) for all, printout as needed.
 I don't need anything too fancy. Just something to play some audio 
files while I'm typing.
HTH, Jerry
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