Need "thingie" for PB 520/540 battery (ies)

Happy Labor Day, list-mates, I received two PowerBook 520/540 batteries that were dead, supposedly. I stuck them in my VST 500 battery charger and, when the red light would come on, take them out and reinsert them repeatedly, apropos of advice I saw on this list. After doing this for a coupl

Re: OS8.1/MSW5.1A (PowerBooks Digest 957)

Rick McCutcheon wrote: >Does anyone know from experience that: > >a) MSWord 5.1A will run under OS8.1 Yes, I do, and it does. Tyler Williams -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon Power

Re: Filesharing question (PowerBooks Digest #831)

>File sharing seems to take *forever* to start up on it. Bruce, I don't have a lot of experience with either OS8.6 nor the Performa 6214. However, I have noticed over the years that starting up file sharing seems to take longer and longer as time goes on, but if I reformat and restore all th

Re: battery Life on a PB 5300

In PowerBooks Digest #830, Sionnach Aisling wrote: >I religiously fully >discharge and recharge that battery at least once a >week Wait a minute. I just read somewhere (I wish I could remember where) that you shouldn't do a complete discharge/recharge any more often than monthly because

Re: Strange Portable StyleWriter (PB Digest 551)

Eric Schwarz wrote: >I picked up a Portable StyleWriter today. It doesn't have an AC adapter, >but it has a (prolly dead) battery. What do I need to know about one of >these? Is it worth fixing up? > >Also, this one seems rather strange: it has a Centronics 36-pin PC parallel >port, rather t

Re: Battery recharges while in PB165c? (Digest 484)

>Is my removable battery in my 165c supposed to charge while it's IN the >powerbook? Yes. >I see an image of a battery up in the right hand corner of the >screen that is a solid color but I don't know what it means or how to >charge this thing. When I unhook the AC adapter it goes dead. Before

Re: Talking PB

>I have a PB 170. What program(s) do I need for it to read text outloud? Hi. Try to download SpellTools (the last version is 1.3.3) from VersionTracker or Downloads.com. It has a module that will read text, regardless of whether your text application is "text enabled" or not. Best of all,