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From your photo, it looks like the E, R, T, S and V keys are the worn ones. Thankfully these keys are in the same positions in other keyboard layouts, including North America, so you might be able to get away with just getting replacement keycaps -- the donor doesn't have to be a French one.

As promised, here's my video about replacement brackets for the 1400's CD-ROM drive bezel: The .STL files are available here: Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5176310 PrusaPrinters, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/106933-powerbook-1400-cd-rom-drive-bezel-brackets

I'm not seeing them either. I went through my archives of service manuals and found several for Power Computing machines. They're separated by model (PowerBase, PowerCenter, etc) and form factor (desktop or minitower).

Yep, I'd be in for a spool or two as well.

So you may know that I have a soft spot for the Color Classic -- it's my favorite desktop Mac. And while I own two of them, the original Color Classic wasn't the only model that came in the form factor. I've always wanted a Color Classic II, for no other reason, really, than for the sake of my...

I haven't swapped the drive in my Cube yet, but based on my recent experience installing an IDE-to-mSATA adapter in my 12" PowerBook G4 with a 128GB module, I'm certainly thinking that'll be the way I go.

I tried both of those files, but they just extract to .cpt files. Not sure what to do with them? This is getting me closer. After going through StuffIt Expander Hell (forgot I didn't have both older and newer versions on my SheepShaver disk) and patching the program, it's indeed giving me the...

It's perhaps no secret that I'm a huge fan of SimCity 2000. I remember long ago having a cheat patch that could be applied to the application that maxed out your budget to something like $10 million, and also unlocked *everything*. This was *not* the porntipsguzzardo cheat code, it was...

I printed them with PLA, but you could use whatever material you prefer. I've had good luck gluing PLA parts using CA glue meant for plastics.

There are a *lot* of SMD caps inside these machines, but thankfully, there are only two kinds. Here's the breakdown: Logic board 23x 47uf 16V 3x 33uf 25V PCI riser/graphics card 8x 47uf 16V CPU card 1x 47uf 16V The attached photos show where and which ones they are. (Sorry that they aren't...

Got the brackets modeled and printed. They fit in the drive itself, but I haven't glued them to the bezel yet. I'm planning on making a short video about these and another PowerBook-related 3D printing project, but here's a teaser.

It would have been either Apple or Quanta who designed the bezel. The 1400 was an interesting machine in that the chassis was actually a "whitebox" design from Quanta. In order to get the machine to market faster (and bypass internal dysfunction), Apple basically gave the motherboard schematics...

I've got two PB1400 CD-ROM drives this has happened to, and on my to-do list is designing some 3D-printable replacement brackets that can be glued to the original bezel. It's crazy (though not surprising, given the era) that Apple used such small/flimsy brackets, though I suppose the drive...

Here's a still from the video showing the component side of the board, for those curious. The machine's back together, but if there's serious interest from anyone who wants to reproduce it, I can pull the drive back out and scan both sides of the board. That said -- given the components on it...

Having done a Takky mod about 20 years ago, IMHO it's not worth it these days. The Mystic mod is reversible (and can require no hardware mods if you're willing to forgo VGA and use the system enabler trick), whereas Takkys were finnicky at best and required serious permanent changes to the CC's...

So I had both of my 2400s out this weekend and remembered to test them for CardBus compatibility. In short: On the 180MHz model, nope. I tried hot-plugging a card in, and as soon as I did, the Finder crashed and reloaded. The machine kept running, but when I went to shut it down, it froze. I...

Does that modification to the board affect its ability to work in a 575 chassis? (A CC II is on my list of machines to get. Someday!)

Wow, nicely done! I'm curious about the screen burn-in, any idea what application it's from?

So I tried Speedometer 4.02 on both machines and it works great -- the results it generates feel accurate to me, considering the systems. MacBench, however, was a no-go on one of them. I tried versions 3 and 4, and for both, they just hung at the splash screen. I even wiped the machine and...

I'm working on a project where I need to benchmark a couple of Macs from the 1993-1995 era to see how they compare, at least in terms of computational performance. I never really got too much into this during that time period, so I can't remember many benchmarking utilities. Can anyone recommend...