Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-06 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Bronze keyboard models (1999, AKA, Lombard) were the first New World PBs. General description and nomenclature ... 1997 ... G3 Series ... 3400 case ... Kanga ... Old World ... CardBus/2, with a third-party modification 1998 ... G3 Series ... new case ... Wallstreet I ... Old World ...

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-06 Thread Alan Miller
On Saturday, August 6, 2005, at 07:27 AM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: Bronze keyboard models (1999, AKA, Lombard) were the first New World PBs. What's the difference between old and new world? New world had the first USB. However the lombard still has an external SCSI port and no

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-06 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
What's the difference between old and new world? New world had the first USB. However the lombard still has an external SCSI port and no firewire. pismo was the first with firewire. I know the specs, I was merely asking what the dividing line was as the Wallstreet was PCI and had

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3 PRAM battery

2005-08-06 Thread Robert Gruber
--- Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Re: a Wallstreet] 8snip8--- PRAM is maintained by a battery, when those go dead, the systems can act quite unpredictably. http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/3.11.0.html shows the procedure for replacing it. They also sell it,

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-06 Thread PeterH5322
What's the difference between old and new world? Old World has the ROM toolbox in true ROM, and it resides there. New World has the ROM toolbox in RAM, and that toolbox is actually loaded from disk and copied into RAM, where it resides. Old World has an 8 GB (or first 8 GB) limitation on the

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-06 Thread Dan K
Malcolm Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: What's the difference between old and new world? quoting from page 76 in Apple's Lombard devnote: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintos h_CPUs-G3/PowerBookG3Series_1999/PowerBookG3Series_1999.pdf [quote] The PowerBook

Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-05 Thread Alan Harding
Ok first admission I am a Mac Newbie. I was given a Powerbook G3 which is running Mac OS 8.1. It has a 2Gb hard drive and 160Mb RAM. It is all Black (black keyboard) and the apple logo on the top is white. Underneath it says Powerbook G3 Series My question is this, is it Old World or New

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 5, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Alan Harding wrote: Ok first admission I am a Mac Newbie. I was given a Powerbook G3 which is running Mac OS 8.1. It has a 2Gb hard drive and 160Mb RAM. It is all Black (black keyboard) and the apple logo on the top is white. Underneath it says Powerbook G3

Re: Question about a Powerbook G3

2005-08-05 Thread PeterH5322
I was given a Powerbook G3 which is running Mac OS 8.1. It has a 2Gb hard drive and 160Mb RAM. It is all Black (black keyboard) and the apple logo on the top is white. Bronze keyboard models (1999, AKA, Lombard) were the first New World PBs. General description and nomenclature ... 1997 ...