Re: VST Zip Drive

Were we just lucky?? We got a VST drive from another UK list member for our 5300 and put it in the expansion bay - just pulled out Floppy drive and exchanged. It worked straight off. We were over the moon as it allows us to use Zip disks that were formatted on PC's directly. It reads them with no

Re: 5300 batteries?

Just bought two Panasonic batteries for our 5300 but they are being shipped from CA to the UK and have not arrived yet.We took a gamble as the prices were stupidly cheap- both on ebay -both cost less than $10. Will keep ypou posted when they get here. Gerald All communications to and from

Re: PowerBook VST thinpacks

Has anyone ever come across a VST Thinpack 500 battery and would anyone know if they are still available? How did they plug in is another curiosity driven question? TIA and thanks to all who helped wiith the Reno CD Rom problem earlier Gerald Jennings -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 5300 scsi cdrom

We have a PB5300C and a PowerPC Upgraded 500 series. Both connect easily to our external CD (which is an Apple,by the way) We use the Apple specific lead for the connection from the square back terminal in the books to the SCSI terminal on the CD player. The second socket on the CD player ihas a

Re: Drivers? for a Reno Media Vision portable CD?

I have a generic CD driver that I have shared with other list members. Let me know if you need it. YES PLEASE ! Its Not working yet. Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: 3400c questions

I dont know why you would partition a 40gb hard drive into 8gb chunks. Have been following this thread with a view to doing something similar on our hugely upgraded pet 5300C - so today I partitioned the drive and installed OS 8.5 on one 1.5gb partition and OS 9 on one 2gb partition, leaving

Re: PB 520c track pad the same as the 5300????

We converted a 520C to a 5300 by just swapping the board - so I think? the answer's yes they are identical.But others may confirm or deny Gerald Jennings -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | --

Drivers? for a Reno Media Vision portable CD?

Drivers? for a Reno Media Vision portable CD? Just got one of these to link into our PB5300 but does anyone know whether or not it requires additional scripts or drivers as none came with it. (Bad enough it uses 12 batteries!) Will probably take another day for our NiMH battery charger to charge

Re: OT: My favorite PowerBook

We upgrade and generally mess around with donated machines with a view to redistributing them so we get a chance to try out almost everything in the older Powerbook ranges. I gave up on Duos - just do not like them for no very good reason. We got an old PB530 which we then played around with -

Re: PB 5300 info

I'm wondering if there's online somewhere a manual for the 5300 We have one on .pdf we can email or send you any good? Gerald Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A |

Re: 5300C and USB

Does anyone have any experience of fitting USB into a 5300C - ie. How for us ignoramuses? Is it possible ? It has a PCMCIA slot if this helps with an answer. TIA Gerald Jennings, -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: 5300C and USB

Subject: Re: 5300C and USB Is it possible ? No. Read my FAQ for details. Peace, Drew Many thanks Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: How to with a 5300c?

Howard We gave the scripts/drivers on a floppy. Contact offlist with adddress and we can send you a copy Gerald Jennings it came with a Global Village PowerPort PlatinumPro card. I'd like to use it with the ethernet connection for our home DSL, but when I have the card in the slot, OS 8.1

Re: 520c/166 night night

IF it still runs from the SCSI HD cant you boot from an Installation CD on the External Drive?? If you havnt got a CD I'm sure we or somebody else can burn you one. Gerald Jennings -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: 540c 520c questions

My second question concerns the hard drive. What is the maximum size hard drive I can install in the winning laptop? Any ideas where I could obtain a substantially larger drive than 500mb? Will a pull from a duo 2300c work? Answer :Try to find an APPLE SCSI HD of 1Gb somewhere.Must be Apple.

Re: 540c 520c questions

but its not generally a problem as the screws normally fit. on 2/29/04 3:35 AM, The Calypso Organization at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer :Try to find an APPLE SCSI HD of 1Gb somewhere.Must be Apple. These drives are really IDE with a converter attached. Pull off the converter and go

5300 and Stylewriter II

I have just got a really clean little Stylewriter II and thought to use it with my PB5300, but after checking the Chooser it seems not to be supported, as its probably too early a model. Its not supported on my CD's of OS 8 thru OS 9 either Anyone able to help with a script source?? TIA

Re: 5300 and Stylewriter II

Ben, Many thanks, Gerald -- 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! | Support Low End Mac

Re: IDE to SCSI HD Adapters

I sort of recall some previous postings on this topic but cannot find the reference. We have been trying to upgrade several powerbooks recently and were lucky enough to acquire an original Apple IDE - SCSI adapter as supplied with their old 1GB SCSI drives. (We bought a IGB SCSI drive and the

Re: OS 8 on pb 540

We have an OS 8.0 CD we used on our PB 540C we can send you if you need one.Think its bog standard though... Gerald Jennings I'm willing to upgrade my OS 7.5.5 540c to OS 8 and I'm not sure whether one of those OS 8.x install CDs that came with the G3 macs would work, or should I look for a

PB270C to 2300 Upgrade problem

We have recently upgraded a PB 270C using the Mac upgrade motherboard to get it up to a 2300 Power Mac. Initially it worked but after a few minutes it goes to sleep. No end of changing and checking bits seems to cure this. We have tried: Removing the internal battery and restarting Using an

Re: 540C A leopard changing its spots?

Now for a rather weird problem if anyone can help? We have upgraded a PB540C with a 117MHz daughterboard and reloaded its programmes but on the system details it now says its a 2300??? and not a 540C? Anyone any ideas why or how? and is there a (simple) way to tell it to show what it really is?

Re: Installing new OS on a PB5300 and a PB2300

We had the same problem. Buying an external SCSI CD drive was our answer. Gerald -- 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! |

Re: PB5300 Zip question?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to everyone.Peace to all. Just seen a Zip drive for a PB5300 on ebay. Can anyone confirm that such a gadget was ever made for the small floppy bay in this powerbook or is the seller getting confused with G3 and G4 Zip drives? (If its genuine we will go hunt

Re: PB5300 Zip question?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to everyone.Peace to all. Subject: Re: PB5300 Zip question? on 12/20/03 10:18 AM, The Calypso Organization at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to everyone.Peace to all. Just seen a Zip drive for a PB5300 on ebay. Can

Re: Powerbook Adapter question

Does anybody know or can confirm that the power adapter for a PB270C/280C is or isnt the same as that for a PB2300. We are upgrading a machine and dont know whether we need to buy a new power adapter or not?? TIA Gerald Jennings -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: Powerbook Adapter question

Does anybody know or can confirm that the power adapter for a PB270C/280C is or isnt the same as that for a PB2300. We are upgrading a machine and dont know whether we need to buy a new power adapter or not?? TIA Gerald Jennings It is the same Many thanks for that very satisfying

Re: PCMCIA flash memory on 540c

A bit off-topic but if anyone finds a Rev C PCMCIA card for the PB 500 series we are very very very much in the market. We just cannot find one anywhere. Gerald Jennings At a minimum you'll need the PCMCIA adapter that'll slip into the left battery slot, and then a CF card adapter to

Re: Powerbook 270C Write protected SCSI Drive / Weird results

Thanks to Bruce, Eric and the others whose suggestions have been really useful on this topic. We now think the machine has been got at before it arrived with us as we are getting all sorts of peculiar statements from it. Its supposed to be a PB270C but when we eventually (VERY LONG STORY - three

Re: Powerbook 270C Write protected SCSI Drive / Weird results

You can install a later 280 or 2300 logic board into the 270 and it will work with the 270c's color screen. -Mark Thanks Mark, Best news we have had in a long time. We will just put the 280 board on the 270 screen and then be able to upgrade up to OS 8 instead of stopping at 7.6.1. BTW it

Re: Powerbook 270C Write protected SCSI Drive

Are you running DFA from the disk repair disk? At System 7,5, it couldn't repair the boot disk. You'll need a dock with a floppy at the very least to effect this fix We only have disk repair floppies (tools) for OS 8 which of course doesnt work.We have a full duo dock so no problems there. Maybe

Re: Powerbook 270C Write protected SCSI Drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] We have just aquired a PB 270C running Os 7.5.1. Its a nice machine full off really useful programmes but there is a minor fault or faults to be precise,on the HD. Clicking any sub-menu on the drop-down menu (from the 'Apple' top left) freezes the machine. Disk repair finds this

Re: 540c won't start up

hello fellow listers, following a system freeze and forced restart, my 540c won't start up any longer from the hard drive (OS 7.7.5 installed). It does show the smiling mac, but soon after I get a tree note tone, the black screen with the dead mac under which apper the following numbers:

Re: PowerBook 5300cs Apple CD-ROM

I just got a refurbed PB 5300cs (Apple refurb--sealed in box w/manuals). It's a sweet little machine, with one problem. It won't recognize my external Apple CD-ROM drive. I am trying to upgrade to OS 8.1 from 7.5.2 Ours did the same thing - we had to upgrade stage by stage 7.5.5 then 7.6 .1

Re: ship 3400 with battery in?

Stick a piece of insulating plastic tape over the battery contacts being careful not to allow the internal contacts to bend and then replace battery loosely.You may be able to pad the battery poter shell to stop movement too. Alternatively fill cavity with a cut to size styrofoam (expanded

Re: What to do with remains of PB 520c?

We rebuild and recycle all older machines but especially Macs. If its economic maybe you could ship to us in the Uk?? Wede happily pay the USPS economy surface post rate. Gerald The Calypso Organization is a group of environmentally friendly associated businesses ranging from Landscape Gardeners

Re: Looking for unusual power cable for Duo Dock

Has anyone in the group ever come across a Duo Dock Plus HD power cable anywhere.We would like to add an HD to our duo dock but the power cable is an oddball. It plugs into a square socket (J14 on our exploded diagram) and although we could probably make one up its a bit risky as we do not know

Re: SCSI or IDE

Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE Googling the part number yielded this web site: http://www.rapid-tech.com/products/apple.htm It's listed at a 2.5 ATA/IDE drive. Gary Exactly what we were looking for. Thanks Gary, and thanks to all the others who helped out too.This site is particularly useful

Re: SCSI or IDE

We have just aquired an Apple drive. 750mb.Part Number 655-0432. Can anyone tell me how to find out whether its a SCSI or an IDE? Is there a site somewhere that lists Apple part numbers and their components.? Thanks, Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Maxing Out 5300cs RAM

Jason, If you have a spare RAM card for 5300 I'd be happy to make an offer. As far as I know there's no problem using the new card. and our old machine running a mere 20mb would be grateful for a boost! Gerald Subject: Maxing Out 5300cs RAM Well, my 5300cs has 16M on the motherboard,

Re: 540C False profiler readings.

A while back we upgraded our in-house PB 540C to a PowerPC by adding a 117MHz upgrade. It works beautifully but recently I had cause to check the Apple system profiler for some data and to my absolute surprise it now tells me that it is a Powerbook 2300 series??? Anyone got any ideas on how it

Re: Type/upper size range hard drive for PB180?

According to the AppleSpec database, the Powerbook 550c came with a 750 MB SCSI hard drive, so they exist up to that size. Yes confirmed. We have a SCSI one. Its actually reading 770mb. We're still looking for a larger one..Seems most larger capacity ones are IDE's with a converter bolted

Re: pcmcia modems

Global Village Platinum on 5300 Unknown GV on 540C Gerald -- 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! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Communications. FIO

Our server has been blocked by AOL who do not answer us as to why,so if any list members or friends want to contact us offline please do not use AOL to do so as we have reciprocated their action. Sorry about this message being not strictly on -topic. Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 540c and internet

My experience with 9.1 on my 167mhz PBs 500 has been quite positive. However I think the key to using 9.1 on such older 'Books is to have maxed RAM _and_ a newer, faster HD. For example, one of my 167s currently has an original 800mb scsi HD and 40MBs RAM and it's a bit pokey for many

Re: 540c and internet

? 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 Nathan, Weve just been on the route youre taking. Dont use 9.0 as its very slow. 8.6 is MUCH much better but you will need some non-mac software to

Re: Whats it worth

Uk prices for sold ebay items in the last 10 days. May be of interest. Duo 280C Broken mouse button but lots of accessories inc. mini dock £37 Duo 280C plus mini dock Good condition £78 Duo 250 plus all accessories £56 Dup 280C VGC £30 Duo 230 One at £17 one at £12 Duo 2300C £34 Du 2300 £41 We

Re: SCSI to IDE converter

I was told some powerbooks that used SCSI drives actually came with IDE drives with an adaptor. Can anyone confirm/deny this? I've got a roughly 1 GB SCSI drive in a Duo 280c, but given the difficulty I had in getting it (2 years ago now, I think), I may have gotten the last one in

Re: SCSI to IDE converter

Subject: Re: SCSI to IDE converter That said, anybody knows about IDE to SCSI converters small enough to fit inside a 5XX? It would be another solution, but I think not very possible. WE actually purchased an IDE to SCSI converter on ebay a couple of months ago for $55 second user.

Re: Any Recent sightings of a car power adapter for a PowerBook5300?

Any Recent sightings of a car power adapter for a PowerBook 5300? We picked one up on ebay for £15 inc ( about $23 inc postage a week or so ago) Made in the USA by Electronics accessory specialists international (EASI) Part No. APO 103-20 Hope it helps Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: 5xx internal modems

I knew the 14.4 came into it somehow. I still need to download those drivers and get mine up and running. :) We recently purchased and installed the 117 upgrade for our powerbook 540C. It came complete with the GV update floppy... Seems the floppy upgrade for the modems no

Re: Getting a PowerBook 520c soon, some questions

If you want to use it to collect email and need a pcmcia cage for the modem I would suggest keeping the 040 cpu, and not thinking about the power pc upgrade because then you would need to find a rev C cage and they are like ROCKING HORSE SXXX AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. Do you think a PCMCIA

Re: Temperamental 5300c

To cut a long story short we just acquired a superb 5300c. Or it was until I tried to upgrade the OS. First tried installing OS 8 over OS 7.5 from an external CD Didnt like this as had to turn off all extensions to get it started.Then plugged in the HD30 and connected it to the PowerMac to clean

Re: QuickTake 200 and PB 540C

Would anyone know where I can find the 2 or 4 MB SmartMemory cards for a QT 200? or if any other cards will work? We got a QT500 expressly for using with our PB540C as the ssystem works really well.Using the 540C as an editing platform is great Other cards dont work. As you say they have to

Re: QuickTake 200 and PB 540C

The DS7 wont plug directly into a Mac -its PC oriented but the smartcard's easily transferable. Sure it does, that's the only way I've ever downloaded pics from mine. We live and learn - thanks for the info. Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: PB500 Batteries

Subject: Re: PB500 Batteries We have several dead 500 series batteries iof you need them for cosmetic reasons - just let me know. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: 180C and Duo

Part of our work involves recycling and redonating machines to needy areas. We have been donated a Powerbook Duo 230 and a Powerbook 180C.which we would like to check over. Some questions for the group if you can help us? 1. The 180C screen lights up - single tone issued but nothing else- blank

Re:

We wouldnt use anything but the 500 series now.Our preferred portables. Gerald Jennings the 520c is a fine, functional laptop. imho. Gary Sandra Coolsen wrote: can anyone tell me if a powerbook 520c is a good laptop? or should i add more stuff to my 145? thanks billy

Re: ADTX SCSI to IDE adapter woes.

Incidentally, almost any EIDE/UATA drive may be attached to an ACARD UW-SCSI-to-UATA Bridge, You will have to initialize these using another formatter ... not Drive Setup. Good news but how ?and what with ? - Thanks in advance. Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: PRAM battery

I can't remember off the top of my head where I picked it up from, but a google search should find it for you easily enough. This is it. Gerald http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage.php?id=3567db=mackind=0lnk=http: //www.polar-orbit.com/downloads/PRAMCheckerInstaller.hqx -- PowerBooks

Re: ATDX SCSI to IDE adapter woes.

Subject: ATDX SCSI to IDE adapter woes. - anyone had simmilar problems? Or is the card plain dead? We have exactly the same problem at the moment - we are looking for a specifically Apple IDE drive to see if this works - it doesnt work with the Fuji we have tried - identical problem to you.

Re: PowerBook 5xx BBQ

If there is a slight bulge in the heat sink, then it isn't properly installed. The lump is probabl a bad description. It is actually a raised integral section of the heat sink aat the rear in the middle.It MUST be factory constructed as its integral with the plate itself even to having cut

Re: PowerBook 5xx BBQ

We will happily send pics of both types to anyone interested I have never seen a heat sink that came 'up' when placed on the machine, they all lie flat once fitted AFAIK. Apple only list one part number. Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic www.pbfanatic.co.uk We

Re: Daughterboards on PB 540C

I think Ive managed to damage the Additional RAM connector to the upgraded (PowerPC)daughterboard on a 540. The machine will now only see 4mb plus 4mb onboard and doesnt recognise either a 12mb or a 32 mb RAM unit which Ive tried to use. Consequently we cannot use OS 8 and have had to downgrade to

Re: New Laptop Drives

Just wanted listers here to know that I've got quite a few brand new sealed Hitachi 2.5 Laptop Drives for sale.If anybody is interested, email me Dave, yes please to details - cant6 email you as have no address? How do I join the swap list [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

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Re: 500 series drives

Second attempt at posting Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Changing HD on PB540 or any 500 series Having bought some spare bits on ebay I thought I'd change the drive on my PB 540 from its current 250 up to a 500. - but I just cant see how the drive comes out. Seems the cable is

Re: Compact flash speed...?

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 -

Re: Some newbie questions

Where is a good source for software that will run on this (games, apps etc. I stupidly chucked all the software I had from the old Performa a couple of years ago), especially a mail app a browser. Somewhere around we have a huge box of software specifically for OS 7.5 including early IE 3 and

Re: Problem with a PB 540C

with XXXi suffix cheaper ones! Now back to giving it some programmes to play with - and the Quicktake 200 camera system works beautifully - so a completely portable one-bag system for lots of work but under $200. Gerald Jennings - Original Message - From: The Calypso Organization [EMAIL