Rebuilding battery on 1xx PBs

2005-03-01 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
These descriptions on <http://macs.freeshell.org/powerbook/index.htm> 
look promising. I have an PB 180c I would love to run on battery 
again. Has anyone tried these suggestions and perhaps made pics? I 
have no idea what awaits me if I open the battery case (and how do I 
do that?).

Many thanks in advance,
Nils
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Dayna Communicard in PB 190?

2004-09-19 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hello all,
I just sold a PCMCIA Dayna CommuniCard Ethernet Adapter via ebay (I 
used it for my 5300c, also sold)
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5716313082&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT
, and the guy who bought it says that it does not work with his PB 
190 (though it does with his Wallstreet, so the card is okay). He 
wonders if this card might only work with PowerPC-Processors.
Has anybody heard of such a problem with Dayna CommuniCards?

Many thanks in advance,
Nils
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Re: PB 160 ON ETHERNET

2004-01-25 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 15:32 Uhr -0500 25.01.2004, sean and billy v and c wrote:
 How would i get my 160 on ethernet? or would it be just as much as getting
 an ibook?
Try to get one of the SCSI-Ethernet-Adapters on ebay. I use the 
Asante mini en/sc 10T to connect my PB 180c to my G4 (drivers are 
available on the web; make sure that you have a PB-SCSI-adapter as 
well), and it works ok.

Hope this helps.

Nils

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Re: erasing disk 1400/ SCSI disk mode

2003-10-26 Thread Nils 
adding my .02

you might not want to bother w/ linux, not that it's a bad
idea. Just since the pcmcia slots and sound have no support,
you won't be able to do much. I don't think the optional
internal ethernet is supported either.

:(

I also wanted to use mklinux on my 1400, but was saddened
when i found out I couldn't be wireless with it running
linux.  But it runs 9.1 on a 133 48mb, 6.4gb just fine :)

I'm waiting for the 166MHz motherboard and processor to 
arrive.  Then will break out the soldering pencil and replace
the crystal w/ something faster.  And possibly machine a new
heatsink for it to help dissipate the heat faster.


-nils


On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:34:07PM +0200 or thereabouts, nathan wrote:
> 
> -- well thanks none the less.. I just purchased a 1400cs/117 and I'm trying
> to learn all I can about it! It came with a passworded copy of 8.0, so I
> think I'll go Linux on it... being that you bought a bunch do you have a 166
> processor that you would part with for a reasonable price?

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Re: Need help for HD and Farallon Card

2003-10-26 Thread Nils 
Whoa.  Well.  That sucks :(  If you're handy with a soldering iron
you might be able to fix it.  Alternatively if you bought the
identical drive from the LEM swaplist or ebay you could switch
circuit boards from one drive to the other.  This would be good
if you could find the identical drive that had bad sectors. You 
could potentially get it for _cheap_ and swap it's board onto
your drive. The key to this is that the drives have to be the
same model number.  Not close (it might work), but the same.

As for the soldering iron solution.  You could (i haven't tried this
yet) get some metal the same diameter as the pin desolder and remove
the existing broken pin, cut new piece of metal to a good workable
length, insert it through the plastic housing thing and resolder
it to the board.  Then cut off any excess.  That should work.
Since I haven't tried it yet, I can't report on my success with 
doing it, but in theory, if you're careful, it should work just fine.

-nils

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:20:52PM -0600 or thereabouts, macnifico wrote:
> Hi, Listers!
> 
> I was changing a 4Gb HD from a 1400 to another 1400, but did something 
> wrong and one of the pins got bent. I tried to straighten it up, but 
> only  made it worse. I broke down the pin.
> Is there an economical way to repair the HD? I'd like to get some 
> programs I have in that particular HD...
> 
> I got a Farallon EtherMac PC Card with no dongle. Is there a source for 
> this dongles somewhere?
> 
> TIA & best regards.
> Hugo Diaz

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Re: 540c and internet

2003-10-26 Thread Nils 
No.  The previous poster was referring to your ISP's
name servers (DNS) addresses being static.  Not the ip
address being assigned to your machine as being static.
What he is suggesting is for you to contact your ISP, 
ask then what the IP addresses of their DNS servers are
and manually enter them in your TCP/IP setup.

The problems you are describing don't sound browser related.
Just that your machine can not lookup DNS entries.  
One tool to help rule out your browser is to get
MacPing ( http://www.macping.com/ ) and use it to ping
a domain name that you know.  Like worldcom.com which currently
resolves to 164.109.35.20.  If you get MacPing, try to
ping worldcom.com and if you continue to get the DNS error
messages, you've ruled out your browsers as the problem.

So, contact your isp, get their DNS addresses, manually enter
them and your problem should (hoepfully) go away :)

-nils

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:38:35PM +0200 or thereabouts, nathan wrote:
> 
> --- Unfortunatly I do not have to option of a router to grab a DNS address
> and my ISP doesn't offer any static for dial up customers. I don't have the
> option of DSL or Cable here, so will I be able to surf with me latptop? Or
> should I just stick with the desktop and d/l pages for offline browsing to
> the laptop? Would it help if I updated the os? I have a 167mhz PPC upgrade
> card coming for the 540c, so I should be able install atleast 9.0 onto
> it
> 
> on 10/26/03 7:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >> I get "Page could not be found because it does not have a DNS." Anybody
> >> get this before? Know what it might be?
> > 
> > You did not completely make connection with your ISP.
> > 
> > On 540c's and 5300ce's I always have to manually put in the two DSN
> > numbers from my ISP, whenever I go "on the road".
> > 
> > The secret, if you could call it that, is to use the ISP's software to
> > correctly setup the TCP/IP and Remote Access control panels, and then
> > copy the numbers down for later.
> > 
> > Then, when moving to a new location, simply create a new location in
> > Remote Access, and plug the two DNS numbers in TCP/IP.
> > 
> > Fortunately, the ISP's DNS numbers are static.
> > 
> > When I'm "home", I let my router get the DNS numbers.

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Re: Compact flash speed...?

2003-09-07 Thread Nils 
Hmm..  I did buy a newer faster 6.4gb drive a while back.
And you're quite possibly right about the fragmentation.
I'll give it a try again today and see if I have any better
results.  I'm quite interested in running the machine on
just CF since with the hdd spun down the battery lasts
s much longer :)

Thanks for the suggestions.

-nils

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 07:29:53AM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian wrote:
> >I took my 128MB cf card from the camera that had about 80MB
> >of pictures on it, and transferred them to the hdd.  Now,
> >it could either be that the system was pausing while accessing
> >the hdd, but I believe it was while the machine was accessing
> >the CF card.  I did turn on VM and tell it to use the VM, but
> >at the time didn't have any memory intensive apps on the
> >machine.  I'm going to try again in a few days, but I suspect
> >will find the exact same results.
> >
> >Has anyone else tried this yet?  I know a few ppl on the list
> >were talking about it, but don't remember seeing any good
> >feedback.
> 
> I copy photos from my camera's media (smartmedia adapter) to the 1400 all
> the time, no pauses in the system that I notice; I've got the G3 with a
> faster 20 gig drive though.  It just copies.  when I boot from the CF card
> to run Speeddisk (I was the first one I think to do the CF system disk
> thing, and it was for the purpose of a bootable Norton tools volume this
> way) the thing runs just fine; and I don't notice that it's hugely slow or
> anything; it's fun to have it be COMPLETELY silent, no HD sounds :)
> 
> The 1400's bus speed is anaemic and it's not made for much multitasking no
> matter what :/  I would blame it on the VM but I usually have VM turned on
> on my 1400 as well since 64 just isn't much.
> 
> If you have a stock HD, those are very slow, just buying something modern
> will be about a 2X speedup in your subjective feeling of "speed".  And your
> drive might be fragmented badly?
> 
> Anyway copying files off my Smartmedia is certainly not annoying, works
> pretty fast and smooth here.
> 
> B

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Re: Compact flash speed...?

2003-09-05 Thread Nils 
So ya, long time since I tried this.  

And man..  it sucks.  Sadly, it's almost as fun as using
the floppy drive.  Transferring data to/from the CF card
on my 1400 caused the system to sort of pause intermittently.

I took my 128MB cf card from the camera that had about 80MB
of pictures on it, and transferred them to the hdd.  Now, 
it could either be that the system was pausing while accessing
the hdd, but I believe it was while the machine was accessing
the CF card.  I did turn on VM and tell it to use the VM, but
at the time didn't have any memory intensive apps on the
machine.  I'm going to try again in a few days, but I suspect
will find the exact same results.

Has anyone else tried this yet?  I know a few ppl on the list
were talking about it, but don't remember seeing any good
feedback.

-nils

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:09:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nils wrote:
> howdy.  no, the 1400 series use ide/ata 2.5" drives.
> 
> I think the original wanted to know the speed of CF as
> a method of having faster additional memory in his
> 1400. (ie. putting the virtual memory on the CF card
> instead of on the hard drive) 
> I'm in the same pickle.  I have the pcmcia-CF
> reader, but only a 16mb module.  but have a 256 on 
> the way.  I will report back with my findings.
> 
> -nils

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Re: Compact flash speed...?

2003-07-28 Thread Nils 
howdy.  no, the 1400 series use ide/ata 2.5" drives.

I think the original wanted to know the speed of CF as
a method of having faster additional memory in his
1400. (ie. putting the virtual memory on the CF card
instead of on the hard drive) 
I'm in the same pickle.  I have the pcmcia-CF
reader, but only a 16mb module.  but have a 256 on 
the way.  I will report back with my findings.

-nils

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:32:16AM +0100 or thereabouts, The Calypso Organization 
wrote:
> "Looking for a solution for more
> memory on a 1400c."
> Pardon the ignorance but is a 1400C a SCSI HD?
> If so the answer lies at
> <http://online.century.co.jp/BittradeTest/e_shop/chb25int.html> ( perpeated
> from another posting last week.
> We checked on this particular IDE to SCSI adapter for our PB 540C - It fits
> but 11,000 Yen is about ?60 Sterling and maybe $90. However- unlimited
> storage??
> 
> Gerald

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Re: 1400 Power Button

2003-07-08 Thread Nils 
You could try taking it all apart and putting it back together.
That solved one of my problems a while back.  But unfortunately
it doesn't actually teach you what was wrong.
Making sure not to loose or strip any screws.  :)

:)

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:28:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, Davis wrote:
> Yes.
> Have done that.
> Also, I try to zap the Pram using CMD Option P R and it doesn't work.
> Have zapped on my old G3 so I know how.
> It just doesn't do it.  Starts up normal.
> Used a Reset Power Manager app and nothing changed.
> 
> Michael

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Re: 7.6.1 on PB 180c and modem card for PB 5300c

2003-03-31 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 12:23 Uhr -0500 31.03.2003, Christoph wrote:
>  I was just wondering if you happen to know how to rebuild a battery (the
>  main) with new cells. For example with NiMH cells. People on the Duo
>  List have done so with success.
>
>  C.

No, I do not. But from what I heard or read somewhere, this can be 
quite messy. And I do not think that it is worth the effort, as the 
PB 180c is too draining: the battery won't last for long.

Nils

>  Nils Mueller-Scheessel wrote:
>>  At 15:32 Uhr -0500 30.03.2003, Christoph wrote:
>>
>>>  Do you have a solution for to the battery problem on the 180c?
>>>
>>
>>
>>  What do you mean with "battery problem"? The main battery is nearly
>>  dead, of course. It never used to last for more than a couple of
>>  minutes, anyway. The rechargeable lithium battery which stores the
>>  PRAM went down some time ago. Last week, I have soldered a new one in
>>  its place, and everything works just fine.
>>
>>  Nils
>>

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Re: 7.6.1 on PB 180c and modem card for PB 5300c

2003-03-30 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 15:32 Uhr -0500 30.03.2003, Christoph wrote:
>  Do you have a solution for to the battery problem on the 180c?
>

What do you mean with "battery problem"? The main battery is nearly 
dead, of course. It never used to last for more than a couple of 
minutes, anyway. The rechargeable lithium battery which stores the 
PRAM went down some time ago. Last week, I have soldered a new one in 
its place, and everything works just fine.

Nils


>  Nils Mueller-Scheessel wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  I have just upgraded my PB 180c (with 14 MB RAM) to Mac OS 7.6.1 (the
>>  latest version it accepts), and I am impressed: With inclusion of the
>>  Mac OS 8.1-control panels "appearance" and "desktop", it does not
>>  nearly look as old as it is (8,5 years); it is still as snappy as my
>>  wife's PB 5300c with Mac OS 8.1, and the screen is, despite its
>>  smaller size, better, too (no wonder this PB earned a road apple). If
>>  you own a PB 180 and have enough RAM, I can only recommend the
>>  _switch_ to 7.6.1 (the system takes about 4 MB RAM).
>>
>>  But anyway, the PC card modem of the PB 5300c needs replacement.
>>  There are plenty of modem cards on ebay available, mostly for
>>  Win-Laptops, and I wondered if any of these might be suitable for the
>>  5300. Does anybody know which ones can be used on our machines?
>>
>>  Many thanks in advance,
>>
>>  Nils
>>

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7.6.1 on PB 180c and modem card for PB 5300c

2003-03-29 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hi all,

I have just upgraded my PB 180c (with 14 MB RAM) to Mac OS 7.6.1 (the 
latest version it accepts), and I am impressed: With inclusion of the 
Mac OS 8.1-control panels "appearance" and "desktop", it does not 
nearly look as old as it is (8,5 years); it is still as snappy as my 
wife's PB 5300c with Mac OS 8.1, and the screen is, despite its 
smaller size, better, too (no wonder this PB earned a road apple). If 
you own a PB 180 and have enough RAM, I can only recommend the 
_switch_ to 7.6.1 (the system takes about 4 MB RAM).

But anyway, the PC card modem of the PB 5300c needs replacement. 
There are plenty of modem cards on ebay available, mostly for 
Win-Laptops, and I wondered if any of these might be suitable for the 
5300. Does anybody know which ones can be used on our machines?

Many thanks in advance,

Nils

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Re: 5300-512 or 1MB Active/Passive Display?

2003-01-21 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 13:23 Uhr -0500 21.01.2003, Dave wrote:
>  I realize this question will probably be similar to comparing the speed
>  differences between two tortoise species at full gallop, but can someone
>  tell me if there is a noticeable video gain in having a Logic/Video Board
>  with a 512K passive display configuration or one with a 1 MB active display
>  configuration (VGA)?

I would definitely do the swap. I had to do it backwards (from broken 
logicboard with 16 MB and 1 MB VRAM to functioning one with 8 MB and 
512k), and I still regret it. With 1 MB VRAM you have more colours 
and the picture *feels* sharper. I do not think that you will get a 
noticeable speed gain, though. However, the 8 more MB are nice as 
well.
The swap is fairly easy to do if you have the service manual and a 
8-torx driver at hand (with some practice you can do it in 5 minutes).

Hope this helps.

Nils

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Re: 5300 loose connector repair

2003-01-14 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 15:09 Uhr -0500 13.01.2003, PowerBooks wrote:
>  2. I'm planning to have an experienced solderer fix the problem if I can. Is
>  the logic board the same thing as the mother board? I've looked at the
>  instructions in the manual on how to add additonal RAM in order to learn how
>  the case opens. Once the case is open, is the conector jack easily
>  accessible for soldering. Any tips or explanations would be welcome. The
>  person is an experienced technician but not necessarily a computer repair
>  person.

I have done this two times before. At the first time, I had no 
soldering experience whatsoever. The powerbook still does work, so I 
suppose everything worked well. You have to strip down the logic 
board totally, so that you can lift it out of the case (which may 
take some fiddling). The instructions on internet were nice, but when 
you see the connector, you will probably know what to do anyway.
Good luck!

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Re: Formatting Norton-protected hard disk

2002-12-10 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
I have finally been able to format the drive: I connected a 
SCSI-drive to the powerbook and pressed command-option-shift-delete 
right through the whole boot process (I think this is important, 
because when I released the keys too soon, norton disklock would pop 
up again). The powerbook drive did not mount, but I was able to 
format it with the apple tool drive setup. Now, the drive is fine.

Many thanks for your suggestions.

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Formatting Norton-protected hard disk

2002-12-08 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hi all,

I have got a 500 MB IDE hard disk drive, which came in a PB I bought 
at ebay for replacement parts for my PB 5300c (it stopped to freeze 
randomly, at last). This hard disk is very thoroughly password 
protected by Norton disklock. I have not been able to access or even 
format the drive, neither with a system floppy inserted nor in SCSI 
mode. Are there other ways to circumvent this protection?
As always, any suggestions are highly appreciated!

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Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-12-02 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hi all,

contrary to what I have stated several days ago, the problems with my 
PB 5300c have remained.
The symptoms are:
- random freezes during startup or later
- when pushing the start button (with and without the power cord 
plugged in), a klicking sound can be heard, but nothing happens. 
Sometimes, command-option-start helps, but sometimes not (in this 
case, the reset button is the last resort).

I am pretty sure that it is not a software issue, but I have tried 
everything else I can think of (replaced keyboard, track pad, power 
cord, removed extra RAM). Can the logic board or the built-in RAM be 
the culprit? Every hint and every suggestion is very, very much 
appreciated.

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Re: Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 15:32 Uhr -0500 17.11.2002, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>  > my recently acquired PB 5300c shows the annoying behaviour of
>>  frequently and randomly freezing, even with all extensions off. When
>>  shutdown, the computer does only reluctantly start with the help of a
>>  forced restart. When put to sleep by shutting the display, it
>>  crashes, too.
>>  My problems might have to do with the exchange of the original
>>  trackpad against one of a PB 190. This was suggested to me by one of
>>  the list members to gain the functionality of the button trackpad,
>>  and it has worked alright - except of the crashes, of course.
>>  Has anyone who did this swap experienced similiar problems or do they
>>  lie elsewhere?
>
>If you were in the system replacing the track pad you could well have
>jostled something else loose, like the memory or processor card, which
>is what it sounds like.


And Drew wrote:
>(Did I recommend this?)  I have a 190 trackpad in my 5300ce and it
>works great.  No crashes, nothing.  The trackpad should be 100%
>compatible.
>As Bruce mentioned, you might want to check to make sure your RAM is
>seated correctly and that the data ribbon cable for the trackpad is
>inserted correctly/completely.

Thanks, Bruce and Drew (yes, you were the one, thanks again)! The 
RAM-card looked seated alright, but after removing it the 
aforementioned problems have (apparently, knocking on wood) ceased. 
Do you think it was just the seating or could the card have gone bad? 
(I have checked it with TechTool 2 and no problems showed up)

Nils

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Random freezes on PB 5300c

2002-11-17 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hi all,

my recently acquired PB 5300c shows the annoying behaviour of 
frequently and randomly freezing, even with all extensions off. When 
shutdown, the computer does only reluctantly start with the help of a 
forced restart. When put to sleep by shutting the display, it 
crashes, too.
My problems might have to do with the exchange of the original 
trackpad against one of a PB 190. This was suggested to me by one of 
the list members to gain the functionality of the button trackpad, 
and it has worked alright - except of the crashes, of course.
Has anyone who did this swap experienced similiar problems or do they 
lie elsewhere?

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Nils

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Re: file sharing....

2002-11-03 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
At 15:30 Uhr -0500 03.11.2002, Fran wrote:
>Anyway, I thought, ok, I'll hook the PB to my G3 upgraded 7300 with a
>printer cable (am I wrong here?) and tried out file sharing. I get all
>the way to the point of going into the Chooser to 'select the file
>server' and nothing is showing in the box.I've gone to the
>threemacs.com site and followed all of the directions...please email me
>off list with any help, Thanks,  Fran

Have you turned on "used jointly" (or something like that; it is 
called "Gemeinschaftlich nutzen" in the German localized system; it 
is the second item of "Get info") for your hard disk in question? 
Otherwise it will not show up in the Chooser. Another point to 
consider: you have to make sure that AppleTalk and the printer do not 
use the same port.
Hope this helps.

Nils

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PB 190 not starting up

2002-10-24 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Hi all,

I have got a problem with my PB 190cs: it won't start up, whatever I 
do. Plugged in the green light above the screen glows steadily (which 
already is, at least in my experience, highly unusual), but it does 
not react to any keyboard stroke (or the little button at the back). 
I have even tried to remove the PRAM battery, but this does not 
change the situation.
Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

Nils

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Express Modem DAA trouble

2002-10-12 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 
Has anybody had trouble with the Apple Express Modem DAA? The modem 
in my PB 180c works fine, but I do not get a connection, the modem 
tells me that it does not get a carrier signal. The modem cable is 
fine, too, so I suspect it has something to do with the DAA.
If anybody would share his/her experiences with me, I would be most grateful.

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Express Modem DAA trouble

2002-10-10 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 

Has anybody had trouble with the Apple Express Modem DAA? The modem 
in my PB 180c works fine, but I do not get a connection, the modem 
tells me that it does not get a carrier signal. The modem cable is 
fine, too, so I suspect it has something to do with the DAA.
If anybody would share his/her experiences with me, I would be most grateful.

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Trackpad button function on PB 5300cs?

2002-09-23 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 

Hello,

recently, I have acquired a used Powerbook 5300cs. It runs fine with 
40 MB RAM and MacOS 8.6 (newly installed). However, I am not able to 
activate the trackpad button function (usually in the trackpad 
control panel), I do not even have the option to do that.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

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Powerbook 1xx lithium battery replacement

2002-08-17 Thread Nils Mueller-Scheessel 

Hi,

I am new to the list, so I do not know if the subject has been covered lately:

My beloved Powerbook 180c changes time and date all the time. I am 
pretty sure that this has to do with the lithium battery (now more 
than 8 years old) which is supposed to make the computer remember 
those things.

I have got a copy of David Wadson's excellent "Powerbook: Repairs, 
Upgrades & Installations V3.0", but it does not cover this subject 
completely.
Has anyone out there succeeded in replacing the old Powerbook 1xx 
battery with a new one? How can it be done?

Many thanks in advance,

Nils

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