Absolutely not. Coincidentally, APC still makes new PowerBook 1400 batteries. I bought one a year ago and get about two hours out of it.
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Does anyone here use pre-G3 laptops regularly?
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Absolutely not. Coincidentally, APC still makes new PowerBook 1400 batteries. I bought one a year ago and get about two hours out of it.
Just found my pile of original Powerbook Power Adapters some guy at a computer show sold me for $5 a piece (score!).
Now all I have to do is find an original external floppy... I'm planning to refurb my Powerbook 100 I got on-line for cheap several years ago....
Now all I have to do is find an original external floppy... I'm planning to refurb my Powerbook 100 I got on-line for cheap several years ago....
Thanks!QCassidy352 said:
Yeah, a lot of what I do is based on necessity. I don't charge much to my clients, so I don't have much money. But at the same time I have to have systems to practice working on and I need to be versed in a very wide range of software applications... and this seems like the best way to achieve the vast majority of my goals.
Most of them I have gotten from clients... either as gifts or in trade for service. Like a little over a year ago I got my 3400c and two Beige G3 Mini Towers from a couple clients. I put the best parts of both G3s into one system and sold the remaining parts to pay for the additional upgrades I made to that system.Mechcozmo said:
In other cases I buy on ebay or where ever I come across a great deal for something I was looking for or was interested in. A couple months ago I got a Sun SPARCstation 10 for free and last month I got a Silicon Graphics Indigo2 for $30. Last summer a friend online sold me a 400 MHz Lombard for $100 and I got a great 8600 on the boards here. It is just mainly watching and waiting for cool deals.
Thanks!Cassie said:
Just one more year and I'll be 40... scary!
3400c
After a long period of time of not using my powerbook due to the powerconnector in the back going loose and preventing the laptop from gaining a charge.
I ordered a couple of 3400's both had upgraded 128 ram, with 12x cd-rom etc. my problem is they won't power up, either of them and I checked all hardware for concistency and everything looks ok, anybody who could give me and info on what I am doing wrong
After a long period of time of not using my powerbook due to the powerconnector in the back going loose and preventing the laptop from gaining a charge.
I ordered a couple of 3400's both had upgraded 128 ram, with 12x cd-rom etc. my problem is they won't power up, either of them and I checked all hardware for concistency and everything looks ok, anybody who could give me and info on what I am doing wrong
The first thing I try if a PowerBook won't power up is to pull the battery and try again. I've found that (specially with earlier PowerBooks) that a dead battery can keep an otherwise working system from starting.my problem is they won't power up, either of them and I checked all hardware for concistency and everything looks ok, anybody who could give me and info on what I am doing wrong
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Well, I had another chance to play with my 3400c again today and to make a little more progress on my CG model of the Columbia. I did more work on the warp nacelle, which is almost finished. After that I need to build the impulse engine details and it'll be pretty much done. Here is where it stands so far...
After I finish up with this I'll start over again with some of the other 3D apps I have to see how well they work out. Still, considering the age of this app, I've been pretty pleased with the results so far.
Those look really good!
I have never been able to make more than a Cube in POV programs, and have yet to try anything Strata besides their Video Shop (which I own a copy of).
I would love to try some of this stuff out, but it appears that I would be limited to using my PowerPC systems, and no 68K .
I have never been able to make more than a Cube in POV programs, and have yet to try anything Strata besides their Video Shop (which I own a copy of).
I would love to try some of this stuff out, but it appears that I would be limited to using my PowerPC systems, and no 68K
.I had gotten a 68k version of Adobe Dimensions to play around with a number of years ago, but in the end only ended up using it for doing different text graphic effects. That was the application that was used for the 3D stuff in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.840quadra said:I would love to try some of this stuff out, but it appears that I would be limited to using my PowerPC systems, and no 68K
Actually the whole book was done on old (pre-G3) PowerBooks...
From Acknowledgments (1994):
This book was written on Apple Macintosh PowerBook computers using Microsoft Word software. Page layout was done with Aldus PageMaker, video frame captures were done with Radius VideoVision, photo retouching was done with Adobe Photoshop, and drawings were done with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Dimensions. charts were built with Microsoft Excel. We salute everyone who helped to make these wonderful tools available to the rest of us.
And Rick Sternbach (who still uses a Mac today) did much of the blueprints of the Enterprise D using Illustrator on a Quadra 800.This book was written on Apple Macintosh PowerBook computers using Microsoft Word software. Page layout was done with Aldus PageMaker, video frame captures were done with Radius VideoVision, photo retouching was done with Adobe Photoshop, and drawings were done with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Dimensions. charts were built with Microsoft Excel. We salute everyone who helped to make these wonderful tools available to the rest of us.
Anyways, I've been playing around on my 3400c a little more. Here is the progress I've made...
Bravo!
If you see the Strata suite pop up on any local sales, or online let me know. I will be searching out some of this, and hope to try and learn some POV. I have started to move into the relm of wanting to use these systems for tangible purposes now, as opposed to just collecting them, so having a new bit of software to play with will bring some new life into these systems
One thing I really would like to do is some renderings of cars I have drew up. The problem is, I am terrible with numbers, so any sports car I made via pen, will probably look like some psychotic Suburban on steroids in POV programs.
If you see the Strata suite pop up on any local sales, or online let me know. I will be searching out some of this, and hope to try and learn some POV. I have started to move into the relm of wanting to use these systems for tangible purposes now, as opposed to just collecting them, so having a new bit of software to play with will bring some new life into these systems
One thing I really would like to do is some renderings of cars I have drew up. The problem is, I am terrible with numbers, so any sports car I made via pen, will probably look like some psychotic Suburban on steroids in POV programs.
The first was the 300mhz iBook. It was a G3. Incidentally, it wasn't just the first Mac, but also the first laptop with built in 802.11b networking.
Actually, as I'm sure you know, they didn't have airport pre-installed. You needed to pay for the upgrade. It may have been the first laptop with the option to build on with Wireless B pre-installed, but it certainly wasn't the first one to include it as a default configuration.
So, in other words, it was the first laptop with built in 802.11b networking.
While I haven't done too much else on my CG model of the Columbia on my PowerBook lately, I have put together some of the higher resolution shots into a nice single image...
I just pulled my 5300c out of the closet and took it for a drive. I'm still amazed how nice the screen quality is after so many years. I installed a kingston ethernet card in the PCIMCA slot and now it goes online.... did I mention slowly? The only page that seems to load normally is google...
Well, most web pages today assume you have a modern browser. If you want a faster (but rougher) classic browsing experience, use Netscape 4.8 with CSS turned off.
I can vouch for this being a great formula. I do the same thing, with the exception being that I run a 68k version of the software on my older systems
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I can vouch for this being a great formula. I do the same thing, with the exception being that I run a 68k version of the software on my older systems
Really, where did you find that?