Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Just for curiosity's sake (and 'cos sometimes my screen acts like it wants
> to go all wonky on me) was it easy to find/purchase a replacement c screen
> and put it in?

I found one from David Wedge on this list -- actually the entire top half.
My only complaint was that one of the LCD lines is, to use your term, wonky,
but it otherwise works just fine.

> I've heard it's easy if you know how to open the thing up
> and match all the little wiry bits.

It took me about 45 minutes to install. Most of that was checking that all
the wires were properly connected and nothing was kinked up.

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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[aly]

Just for curiosity's sake (and 'cos sometimes my screen acts like it wants to go
all wonky on me) was it easy to find/purchase a replacement c screen and put it in?
I like the "privacy" of the cs screen -- except when I and another person are
trying to get something done on the computer together, and one of us basically has
to breathe down the neck of the other to read the screen. =-) Just wondering for
future reference... Replacing the screen on our other cs (with a cs) took a tech
and about $60. *laughs* I've heard it's easy if you know how to open the thing up
and match all the little wiry bits.

--Aly

Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > How do you like the c screen? I've never seen one.
>
> Considering that the screen the original 1400cs/117 I had didn't work, I
> was extremely pleased with the 1400c screen ;-)
>
> Seriously, though, having compared the two on a friend's 1400cs, the c
> screen is much brighter and crisper, even by today's standards.



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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Cameron Kaiser]

> How do you like the c screen? I've never seen one.

Considering that the screen the original 1400cs/117 I had didn't work, I
was extremely pleased with the 1400c screen ;-)

Seriously, though, having compared the two on a friend's 1400cs, the c
screen is much brighter and crisper, even by today's standards.

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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[aly]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > I'm looking to Max out a 1400 C with Active Matrix screen, etc.
> > What can be done? I understand the G3 card is still available and I'm
> > going to want to put etherent and fast modem into it. Maximum memory,
> > Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).
> > I would love to have suggestions from any and all.

How do you like the c screen? I've never seen one.

I also have a pretty sweet setup with what was originally a 1400cs/133:
NuPower G3 card from newertech (used to be here in Kansas)
upgraded RAM to 64
Farallon Ethernet card for broadband access (before they got expensive!)
OS 8.1, which I like OK
Without the one service call I've had on it (which was $100) the thing has cost me
about $550 total -- including the machine itself.

It's even printing now! (That's part of what the service call was about -- remember
when I could just not figure it out after upgrading to 8.1? I called a tech,
finally). Yay!

I have looked a little into upgrading my hard drive. I've heard that if you go over
2G you have to get special brackets mounted inside the machine. Haven't got that
far down the fixit up road and honestly haven't needed the memory yet, even running
PhotoShop and a digital camera.

We do have one 1400cs my husband crazily thinks he wants to get rid of, but do not
know if he will part it out or not. It has the same G3 card, 60 RAM, 8.1. I'm
keeping the Farallon card, though! =-) Feel free to email me off list and I can
keep you updated on whether or not he will part it out. It will be a shame,
regarless, to lose, IMHO, but times are tough all over.

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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Cameron Kaiser]

> I'm looking to Max out a 1400 C with Active Matrix screen, etc.
> What can be done? I understand the G3 card is still available and I'm
> going to want to put etherent and fast modem into it. Maximum memory,
> Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).
> I would love to have suggestions from any and all.

This is my 1400 roadwarrior, which started life as a 1400cs/117.

- replaced screen with 1400c
- upgraded RAM to 60MB
- installed Apple 8-bit external video card
- Best Data 56K data/fax modem
- 3Com EtherLink III NIC
- Sonnet G3/333
- OS 9.1

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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Tom Lee]

>
> From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS
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> >Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).
> >
> >I would love to have suggestions from any and all.
>
> Don't expect anything from CD-R or -RW.  All burning software really needs
> SCSI manager 4.3 which the 1400 doesn't have.   External SCSI CD-R is your
> easiest option, no easy solutions for the internal bay exist, 1X only
> recording speed, Toast doesn't really support these old model powerbooks
> due to lack of the right SCSI manager,

It's true that the minimum *recommended* configuration for using Toast is an 040 with 
SCSI Manager 4.3. The first Powerbook with  4.3 support was the PB3400, so the 1400 is 
one of the unrecommended models. But, it may surprise you to know that, as long as you 
are willing to live with certain restrictions,
you can burn CDRs even with the 100-series Powerbooks (except for the 100). Toast 
3.5.x (3.5.7 was the last release, I think) will work in any 030 Mac. Any. The SCSI 
Manager 4.3 requirement (along with the improved SCSI chip that goes with it) is to 
permit faster burning, and reduce the likelihood of
failure from buffer underruns. But if you don't mind being limited to 1x (or even 2x 
in some models) write speeds, and not being able do anything with the PB while it's 
burning (no surfing, no nothing), you can make perfectly fine CDs with unsupported 
models (with all unsupported models, but PB1xx most
importantly, max out the RAM, turn off VM, disable RAM doubler if present, disable 
processor cycling, disable any I/O activity -- like autoanswer fax operations -- that 
might steal cycles, disable all extensions that aren't needed for burning).

Also, Toast has drivers for these old machines, so the fact that the Mac OS might not 
support certain CDR models is irrelevant. Just use a drive that is supported by Toast 
(and that's basically all of the ones you are likely to encounter; their online 
documentation lists the models). And the Toast CD Reader
extension allows you to use those drives as plain old CDROMs as well. Again, many many 
models are supported.

[I've not verified that you can burn CD-RW this way, but I have no reason to believe 
it wouldn't work with at least most, if not all, of the unsupported Macs as well. I'd 
appreciate hearing from folks who try it out.]

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Re: Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Brian]

>Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).
>
>I would love to have suggestions from any and all.

Don't expect anything from CD-R or -RW.  All burning software really needs
SCSI manager 4.3 which the 1400 doesn't have.   External SCSI CD-R is your
easiest option, no easy solutions for the internal bay exist, 1X only
recording speed, Toast doesn't really support these old model powerbooks
due to lack of the right SCSI manager, and although my Toast 5.0.2 works
with my external CD-R drives, it is 1x only and Toast doesn't work quite
right (progress indicators don't work so for 74 min, you never know if it's
locked up or really burning...audio copies are out of the question due to
extremely slow bus speeds, data only).

And most of the CD-R drives aren't supported by MacOS so you'd need FWB CD
toolkit (freebie solutions don't work on the 3 SCSI -R drives I have) and
even FWB doesn't support many that many drive models (although if you have
an unsupported CD or Cd-R drive, and send the drive to them, they'll add
compatibility and give you a free copy of FWB CDT as well).

I was going to update my cs to a ce but like the privacy of the limited
viewing angle and am going to leave it a cs.

HTH.

Brian



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Maxing out a 1400 C and CS

[Victor Nazarian]

I'm looking to Max out a 1400 C with Active Matrix screen, etc.

What can be done? I understand the G3 card is still available and I'm
going to want to put etherent and fast modem into it. Maximum memory,
Hard Drive (perhaps new IBM Liquid Bearing Drive) and CD-ROM (or even CD-RW).

I would love to have suggestions from any and all.

Thanks,
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