Not today but yesterday I finished restoring my PowerBook 1400c/166. Full recap, hinge reinforcement, and more done to it to build the best laptop I could. Today I'm enjoying the fruits of my work with some DOOM :^) Filename IMG_4256.jpg File size 884.61 KiB Views 1277 views File comment 1400 doom! …

Unfortunately I can't. It only accepts the full channel ID in the box. That wasn't the first thing I tried, I tried putting the whole link in there but that didn't work. So basically, I have to put "UCPwdHoNnrVs3xRWIbxagpqw" in the box, or a different string in that format. And then the software …

I was the IT director for a small company that had nothing but Winbooks, and I had quite a number of those pass through my hands. They were good machines, but even at the time suffered from broken plastic. I hope you find one in good condition! Missed this reply earlier somehow! Which models were …

CMOS. The majority of 90s laptops used them unfortunately. All the Toshibas did, most of the IBMs as well. I've got a whole page on my website going into more detail about them: https://macdat.net/important_issues/batteries_laptops_cmos.html It's the #1 killer of vintage laptops at this point, that …

Just tried to add my YouTube channel link to my profile but it appears the formatting is out of date. I added my channel ID in but it directs to youtube.com/user/[what i inputted]. This 404s now, proper formatting nowadays would be youtube.com/channel/[what i inputted], or just youtube.com/[channel …

Logic board is a must do on anything 68k made by Apple, early PPCs are needing it too, and rarely even in systems up to 2000 or so. And then of course shortly after the 2000s capacitor plague started... I just recap near about everything now when I get the chance that's from before 2000. As for the …

IMO here's how I'd take it on an analog board for each machine: 128k/512k/plus: Reflow all large solder joints, consider recapping, they're really starting to need it on some occasions. Not a must-do though. SE/SE30: You can pretty safely leave them alone as drosse1meyer said. They're probably the …

The classic and classic ii systems absolutely need both the analog and main logic boards done. They have some of the worst and leakiest caps of any of them. SE/30 needs the logic board done too, if I do indeed spy one near the bottom of your stack. The logic boards on the SE30/Classic/ClassicII are …

Ah yes, here right? - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39993&p=1040752&hilit=winbook#p1040752 I did a forum search here a while back for "winbook" while researching the company for my website resources on their laptops and found that - that was a few months ago before I joined. Real shame …

The one I'm after but still don't have is a WinBook XP, which I see as a personal ultimate 486 laptop. They can go up to a DX4-100, have a built in ESS sound card option, plenty of ports, a very stylish design, and they have some other neat features too. You can find one with a 640x480 TFT LCD, …

I've seen some reliability issues associated with them. Seems the speakers can go bad and somehow brick the system until they're removed. Also heard of someone who had theirs die and the speakers were not at fault though. Those issues aside, I think it's neat but I wish they'd make a bigger one with …