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Opening a PowerBook 1400 Battery Pack

repairedCheese said:
The tale end, I used OS 7.6 in school. Funny thing was, the school had gotten a whole set of new Windows 98 machines, which they put everywhere, but still had Macs in computer labs. I had a pc at home, and I just had to play some of the games I found on those systems. Lucky me, older Mac games had no anti-piracy methods. Believe me, it was not easy to emulate that kind of thing before the year 2000.

There is something elegant to the old Mac OS that 9x could never match, and it's something OSX lost in the transition.
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Hmm.. you used 7.6 in school - this was elementary school ? Yes, I remember my college had Macs in the labs too - they were not the colored iMacs you saw in 1998-1999 sadly :-(, but they were superior to any Windows 98 PC at the time. Exactly, true nothing really has anti-piracy in it then as I used to use Napster peer to peer to download mp3 music. Hmm.. you stated not easy to emulate Mac on PC before 2000 - you are right, because orange PC was for Mac to emulate PC and Connectix VP1.0/2.0 on older Macs before 2000 could be used to emulate windows 95/98/Dos. I understand now why many prefer to use System 7 as it was much better and faster compared to 8 and 9. Sadly, I can only use sheepshaver to emulate 7, 7.1,7.5,7.6 etc.. but it’s better to natively boot into it - something my PB G4 Pismo can’t do. Tell me, is there QEUM for PowerPC Macs to emulate older Mac OS ? What did OS X lose in the transition ?
 
i think you need to alert your mayor, bergermiester, town crier, village high elder, grand poobah, el grande heffie, 总工程师 城镇 and Gelug Lama when opening the pack which holds the cells.
they are wiiiiise in the ways of HAZmat
 
repairedCheese said:
The tale end, I used OS 7.6 in school. Funny thing was, the school had gotten a whole set of new Windows 98 machines, which they put everywhere, but still had Macs in computer labs. I had a pc at home, and I just had to play some of the games I found on those systems. Lucky me, older Mac games had no anti-piracy methods. Believe me, it was not easy to emulate that kind of thing before the year 2000.

There is something elegant to the old Mac OS that 9x could never match, and it's something OSX lost in the transition.
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MtLoin2020 said:
i think you need to alert your mayor, bergermiester, town crier, village high elder, grand poobah, el grande heffie, 总工程师 城镇 and Gelug Lama when opening the pack which holds the cells.
they are wiiiiise in the ways of HAZmat
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I am sure if we get the part number for the battery, a used one can be found.
 
Macbookprodude said:
Hmm.. you used 7.6 in school - this was elementary school ? Yes, I remember my college had Macs in the labs too - they were not the colored iMacs you saw in 1998-1999 sadly :-(, but they were superior to any Windows 98 PC at the time. Exactly, true nothing really has anti-piracy in it then as I used to use Napster peer to peer to download mp3 music. Hmm.. you stated not easy to emulate Mac on PC before 2000 - you are right, because orange PC was for Mac to emulate PC and Connectix VP1.0/2.0 on older Macs before 2000 could be used to emulate windows 95/98/Dos. I understand now why many prefer to use System 7 as it was much better and faster compared to 8 and 9. Sadly, I can only use sheepshaver to emulate 7, 7.1,7.5,7.6 etc.. but it’s better to natively boot into it - something my PB G4 Pismo can’t do. Tell me, is there QEUM for PowerPC Macs to emulate older Mac OS ? What did OS X lose in the transition ?
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I was a little older than that lol. I took a programming class that used them, but they had all sorts of fun Maxis games on them, and frankly, pre SimCity 2000, the Mac versions are just the all around best. The Amiga are jank, the Dos are painfully low resolution, and the Windows versions are usually broken or at least hobbled in one way or another.

But of course, nothing handels mixed media data/cd audio as well as Windows does, especially when you're ripping cds. And it doesn't help that Civilization 2 and SimCity 2000 are best run on 32-bit Windows XP. Though, you do want to be using a 16-bit version of Civ2, they broke things going 32-bit with the Tests of Time expansion.

Now, see, what caught the Mac bug on was 68k, but I quickly learned about the newer PowerPC systems, and spent years wishing I'd had the money for a Mac that could do the kind of stuff I could do with a PC. You have to remember, the Apple tax was pretty high in the early 2000s, and gaming was already heavily leaning towards PC. They'd frankly been going that way since the late 90's.

But as fragile as OS 7 or 8 could be, you could just copy things over and they'd work. That's not just about apps, we're talking about the OS here. It's a little tricker with Macs that are designed to run X, but I've seen OS 8 cut down to fit on a floppy. It was never meant to, but it really does not care. You could work on the OS without needing to know what each and every file did because it would tell you.

There are some really terrible things about the Classic Mac OS, like how if one app dies, it can take the whole OS with it, but for home users, the home user software competition starting out the 90's wasn't better. Pity about the success of Doom and Quake on x86, and the failure of Copland, Apple took an absolute beating.
 
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Macbookprodude said:
You call yourself Europa - are you from Europe originally ? 2002 - that was year when DA Powrmac/QS cane out.. OS 9 was over in 2002, though at the time the web was still the same that 7,8.6, 9 could all browse any page you wanted to. I remember those times very well. I was 23 then
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Nah, I'm from the United States. The name is a reference to a song I have fond memories of from my childhood. :)
 
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RogerWilco6502 said:
Nah, I'm from the United States. The name is a reference to a song I have fond memories of from my childhood. :)
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Nice to meet ya ! How did you get so smart with PowerPC Macs :) I should know as much as you, but I have been away from PPC for awhile until 2014-2015.. so just getting back really into it - I had a YouTube channel, but they banned me because of my politics :-( I was a bad boy... anyway, I bet if you tried to use IE 4 and 5, opera abs Icab no real we sure would render.. I may try to access your website through Classila, IE 5, and Netscape.. I am Roman btw.. Ukrainian from Ukraine who lives now in USA. I am living in MD. Where you at in States ?

btw, I found a good working 1400 PB battery for you.

www.ebay.com

Apple Macintosh PowerBook Rechargeable Battery Part# M3254 | eBay

<p>Apple Macintosh PowerBook Rechargeable Battery Part# M3254</p>
www.ebay.com
 
repairedCheese said:
I was a little older than that lol. I took a programming class that used them, but they had all sorts of fun Maxis games on them, and frankly, pre SimCity 2000, the Mac versions are just the all around best. The Amiga are jank, the Dos are painfully low resolution, and the Windows versions are usually broken or at least hobbled in one way or another.

But of course, nothing handels mixed media data/cd audio as well as Windows does, especially when you're ripping cds. And it doesn't help that Civilization 2 and SimCity 2000 are best run on 32-bit Windows XP. Though, you do want to be using a 16-bit version of Civ2, they broke things going 32-bit with the Tests of Time expansion.

Now, see, what caught the Mac bug on was 68k, but I quickly learned about the newer PowerPC systems, and spent years wishing I'd had the money for a Mac that could do the kind of stuff I could do with a PC. You have to remember, the Apple tax was pretty high in the early 2000s, and gaming was already heavily leaning towards PC. They'd frankly been going that way since the late 90's.

But as fragile as OS 7 or 8 could be, you could just copy things over and they'd work. That's not just about apps, we're talking about the OS here. It's a little tricker with Macs that are designed to run X, but I've seen OS 8 cut down to fit on a floppy. It was never meant to, but it really does not care. You could work on the OS without needing to know what each and every file did because it would tell you.

There are some really terrible things about the Classic Mac OS, like how if one app dies, it can take the whole OS with it, but for home users, the home user software competition starting out the 90's wasn't better. Pity about the success of Doom and Quake on x86, and the failure of Copland, Apple took an absolute beatin g.
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Ha ! Heavy tax ? Man oh man.. I was a Pc tech at CompUSA in 2000-2001 abs that is when I got my 1st and only Mac, the Sawtooth 350 G4 along with the crt graphite studio display, VPC 3.0, Mac OS 9 retail - for like 1799.99 without my discount it would have been near 2k. But it was a kick ass system at the time and sadly, only owned it for 6-8mos till I lost my job then and had to sell off all my Apple stuff, only to rebuild again with PPC, buying on eBay a DA 733 Mac.
 
Macbookprodude said:
Nice to meet ya ! How did you get so smart with PowerPC Macs :) I should know as much as you, but I have been away from PPC for awhile until 2014-2015.. so just getting back really into it - I had a YouTube channel, but they banned me because of my politics :-( I was a bad boy... anyway, I bet if you tried to use IE 4 and 5, opera abs Icab no real we sure would render.. I may try to access your website through Classila, IE 5, and Netscape.. I am Roman btw.. Ukrainian from Ukraine who lives now in USA. I am living in MD. Where you at in States ?

btw, I found a good working 1400 PB battery for you.

www.ebay.com

Apple Macintosh PowerBook Rechargeable Battery Part# M3254 | eBay

<p>Apple Macintosh PowerBook Rechargeable Battery Part# M3254</p>
www.ebay.com
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Thank you! Nice to meet you too. :)

My browser of choice on my 1400 is Netscape 4.8. It renders most of what I need to (I don't think my 1400 could handle much more than basic websites anyway even if I had a browser that was capable). I primarily got to where I am today through research and experimentation. I've had a lot of time to research these machines and gather information and that's helped me. I'm from the midwestern US, by the way.

Macbookprodude said:
Oh.. I no am sure there are cheaper ones. So 2002 that makes you 20 or 19. Wow ! My son is your age. He has a PB G4 DLSD 15 and I have a 1Ghz Titanium, of course do want the 17 inch DLSD, but those are hard to find.
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I will probably try to get the current one rebuilt in all honesty. And I turn 19 this year. That's cool that your son has a PPC machine too. :)
 
repairedCheese said:
The Amiga are jank
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my first computer experience was on an Amiga in 1986 for a college graphic design class
i drew a picture with a mouse for 3 hours
my prof over explained saving files
i lost mine, and was very mad
gave up computers until 1990 and used the first photoshop on a macintosh square screen at work with scanners

i mention this story, once here and everyone sez: "no you used an omega...".
so thanks for the reference- im not going senile yet!
 
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RogerWilco6502 said:
Thank you! Nice to meet you too. :)

My browser of choice on my 1400 is Netscape 4.8. It renders most of what I need to (I don't think my 1400 could handle much more than basic websites anyway even if I had a browser that was capable). I primarily got to where I am today through research and experimentation. I've had a lot of time to research these machines and gather information and that's helped me. I'm from the midwestern US, by the way.


I will probably try to get the current one rebuilt in all honesty. And I turn 19 this year. That's cool that your son has a PPC machine too. :)
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Another thing.. does QEMU run under PowerPC as that way I can try to run OS 7 on the Pismo G4 I have.
 
RogerWilco6502 said:
I don't know, actually. I've heard QEMU's performance is a little sluggish though, so you may want to explore other emulators.
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Kewl.. I will do that.. I guess sheepshaver can handle OS 7 nicely, only thing is the refresh rate needs to be below 35% on PowerPC Macs..
 
Macbookprodude said:
Thanks, I have used sheepshaver before, it requires an old world rom to run it. So you are from mid west ? How is the Covid situation out there ? Are you working from home ?
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You're welcome. The situation is ok here, not great, but also not entirely horrible. I attend school remotely and stay inside most of the time. :)
 
RogerWilco6502 said:
Nice :)
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Hey man, I just changed my avatar. Yeah, thats my baby in the pic - His name is Vitaliy. He likes OS 9, and OS X :) Anyway, its not much better here in MD. I want to go back to school myself, but problem is everything is remote for now. I miss the classroom setting.
 
Macbookprodude said:
Hey man, I just changed my avatar. Yeah, thats my baby in the pic - His name is Vitaliy. He likes OS 9, and OS X :) Anyway, its not much better here in MD. I want to go back to school myself, but problem is everything is remote for now. I miss the classroom setting.
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Best of luck when you go back to school :)

Cute kitty :D
 
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