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Thanks!!! Sadly I lack the motor skills to safely wield a soldering iron, so the next obvious question is: If the BlueSCSI is left as is, aside from the wake from sleep problem remaining, are there any other damaging or problematic consequences to either the BlueSCSI itself or the PB when it is...

Reviving my own thread, but I recently swapped out the original HD in my 145B with the (early production?) v2 BlueSCSI which I had bought early last year for the 170, but never used. I used a Disk Jockey created 500Mb blank image, and installed Mac OS 7.1 from a set of floppy disks, opting for...

There's EverWeb (Everwebapp.com) which is pretty simple to use and close to full WYSIWYG, and it used to be free with some restrictions on publishing options for the site, or paid-for with no restrictions. It might be worth looking at it to see if this is capable of what you want.

I have a few 100 series PowerBooks, and none have had problems with the logic board. A 180 had a faulty RAM expansion board which gave sad mac chimes but it booted normally with out it, and a 160 that lit up, but didn't chime or start booting, which turned out to be a failed hard drive. Also a...

You can buy a cheap ($10) power adapter from Amazon that should do the trick. I have 2 of these... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WT32GNK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and they work fine. 7.5v 2a, centre-positive. With a power adapter, then it'll be a question of what...

Partly it’s the media being intellectually lazy when reporting on things they don’t understand all that well, but when a major event like this crashes Windows systems but not macOS or Linux, even though it’s not simply a Microsoft/Windows problem, they are not being entirely unfair in reporting...

Or.... you could run something like Basilisk II or Sheepshaver, and a pleasant MacOS 7 variant, then you could use Word 5.1 or 6 - files are directly readable in LibreOffice. You could even use DOSBox-x and put Word 5.5 for DOS on there! No hint of cloud nonsense in either of those!

I used to drool over the selection of clamshells in my local Sears when they were new, but couldn't afford one. The coolest computers around. I finally bought one a few years ago - a graphite 366 (I wish I'd have picked a Tangerine though!) - and it's a delight to use for distraction free...

Driver software for many printers is still out there, and macintoshgarden.org along with the Macintosh Repository (https://www.macintoshrepository.org/) are excellent sources for a lot of software and driver resources. For a PB 170, you'll typically need an appropriate connecting cable of...

Pretty sure that amongst us all here, we'd be able to rustle up good duplicates of a suitable set of MacOS floppies for the 170, even if those don't turn out to be suitable. The full 7.1 installer pack I have is only 11 1.4Mb floppies, and that includes the 2 'update 3.0' disks. Of course if...

I have regretted every instance where I have parted with an old system which had been of importance to me. I've not typically sold them, but given them away, and really knew I should have kept them all. That includes a PB 170, SE, LC475 and G4 iMac. On the other hand, I bought a PB1400/117 new...

Not sure about the specific set of floppies you're looking at, but the pack I have (and the 7.0.1 installer set on my FloppyEMU is the same too) boot up to an install dialog where you pick either an overall 'all systems' installation of 7.0.1 or one for a specific system. There is also an option...

I still use my IIIxe as a datebook/todo list manager, because it's always with me - and syncs with the desktop app on my Performa 630. Beats every other organizer/PIM I've tried, including Newtons (too big), Psion (needlessly complex) and CE devices like my HP Jornada (cool, but too slow). I...

I had one of the original ones, and used it for a few years in preference to many of the alternatives, including Apple Newton (still have a 130). I bought a couple of later models, but always preferred the original - and still have it in good working order. My Palm of choice was the IIIxe - I...

That's a great job, and it looks ace! I had my stairs replaced with hardwood 20 years ago - by a contractor who unlike me knew what he was doing - and I could see how tough the job was. Even slightly out-of-square creates astonishing complications. It was well worth it though - it still...

I'm not trying to 'pound' on this at all. What I'm trying to do is offer a bit of safe cover for you guys running what is an amazing excellent web site for us, and suggesting what might help to protect yourselves and the site from quite easily avoided repercussions. I think this guy deserves a...

I have found references to a Sean Lee Robinson having claimed in correspondence to be a lawyer. If anyone associated with this gets any seemingly official notification or threat from a lawyer regarding any related allegations, I would strongly suggest you request the lawyer's Bar Number. Every...

Please don't take this as questioning the veracity of the story, but to take @Mr. Fahrenheit 's interaction with this guy as an example, what is being reported in that story is problematic from the standpoint of inviting him to post it. If I read it correctly, eBay investigated what does...

I have no idea whether this person would consider going to court for libel or not, but it may be wise to remember that by all accounts, his value system, moral compass, common sense and decency don't align with ours, so assuming that with the abundance of evidence, we would not be bonkers enough...

This is my error, not your documentation. I mistakenly assumed that I needed @Androda 's documentation since that's what I used to get it up and running, and the BlueSCSI was his version. It never occurred to me that your documentation was the same. My bad, not yours.