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Satisfied customer here too! 2 vintage compact Macs returned to active service with very rapid turnaround!

I had thought that if this was cap-related, it would tend to keep the more contrasty screen if it had been very recently used and adjusted - that was my experience with a PB 165. Otherwise, when adjusted, my 1400cs seems pretty clear of ghosting or artifacts. But it is 25 years or so old!

Mine starts up with that same washed-out screen every time, even when very recently used, when the display had been correct. I'm inclined to think - since it has been recently used with the screen correctly adjusted - that it may not be caps so much as the setting not being kept in PRAM as it...

My 1400cs boots up like that. It settles down after a couple of minutes though, and fades towards normal, or the contrast button can do it faster. I think a sign of capacitor degradation.

It's not quite the same graphic, but I wondered the same thing.

That looks like it could be perfect for the job - I even see what I guess are extensions which may be right for this: USB_Card_Support_1.4.1 I think I'll give that a try! Thanks!

OK, absent a working solution to reading an install CD on my G3/266, I've decided that I need to try and backup the existing HD, to copy that back to a replacement. USB is the obvious, and it has 3 PCI slots of course. So, next question is, does anyone know of a PCI USB card (don't mind how...

That would be a good guess I think. Not that retrobrighting threads don't crop up almost everywhere, but that one was lengthy and quite expansive if I recall.

There was once a very detailed and technical discussion somewhere in the vintage systems community on plastics. It was specifically related to retrobrighting if I recall, but ranged over a number of associated topics. It went over my head of course, and I don't remember where it took place...

A bit of an exhumation on this, but, I've experienced fragmenting plastics on as late as 2009 MacBooks, where several that I know of were breaking apart on the wrist rests and front edges. I also have a 1988 Zenith 'laptop' which is as fragile as anything else I've seen - including suffering...

It's been stored elsewhere, so I'm not sure what has been happening to it. I looks the same from the outside, but not when opened. Either that or my memory is going! I'm not sure how the keyboard and screen might be related in this respect, but I admit that it's a bit of a coincidence if they...

Just wanted to add that my PDQ ejects like it's very angry. First time, when I didn't know to catch it as it departed, it spat the PC Card almost 10 feet across the room!

I have a Pismo which has been running reasonably well, but last was checked a year or so ago. Now, when attempting to start it up, it generally remains dead, with no chime, power light etc. However, occasionally, it comes up with a lit screen, which looks like this: The 1-inch+ strip down the...

The G3 has had much work done inside it - or did many years ago - so anything is possible, and I'm not sure the CD ROM is original. That said though it hasn't been used for years, probably 2007, so it may simply be a problem with failing components. Now I have a working Zip drive elsewhere, I...

Yeah, this makes sense. There are a lot of tales 'to there' of good and bad cards. I would generally think (not necessarily correctly) that if a card works in the BlueSCSI in one system, it ought to in another - in other words, that it's the BlueSCSI that is good or bad with a card, not the host...

Yes, it worked perfectly on the 630 both with and without an internal drive - at least with and without the HD. The CD ROM was connected all the time. The G3 has an internal IDE, Zip and CD, I have not looked to see which of these are SCSI! I wasn't much concerned about the PowerBook related...

No, I haven't as yet. It worked with the system I needed it for specifically (the 630CD) so wasn't overly concerned. I presume from the troubleshooting guide that it can't see the card or the card isn't readable - though why the same card works in one system and not another is odd if that were...

Or, actually it might not - that would give me a Lombard-based 9.2.2 system on the CF card. Might be enough though!

Sadly, I don't have a newer Mac, but pulling the drive and hooking it up to something else is a great idea I hadn't even thought of. Which got me thinking that alternatively, I'm going to replace the HD anyway at some point, so I could drop the replacement into another system to get it set up...

No big deal - I'll find out in due course. It's made harder by the fact I can't get any files on or off the G3 at present, so no way to load drivers if it needs it, but there will be a way, if I play with it long enough. Incidentally, is there such a thing as a SCSI 'extender'? Something I can...