If you track him down, please let me know.
Mark
On 2/1/19 3:46 PM, 'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs wrote:
Hi Mark,
I have a 520c with a dead battery pack. I plan to have it refurbished
with new cells. I've been trawling my emails looking for the guy who
refurbed a clamshell iBook battery pack some years ago. All I can
remember is that his surname is Polish.
On the battery front, I would definitely recommend getting it
professionally done. IIRC it's NiCad but NiMH will also work in it.
The battery pack place will balance everything and ensure that it
charges for you. I have tried cheap eBay packs but they don't always
last as long, maybe a year. That iBook battery rebuild lasted for years.
Good luck with the rest of it. I'm fortunate that mine has very little
wrong with it. I do need to plug it in and check it soon. When I first
used it back in 1995, I fell in love with it. I want to upgrade the
HDD with an SD unit. The original borked some years ago.
Cheers,
Keith
On Friday, 1 February 2019, 20:39:09 GMT, m...@noakes.com
<m...@noakes.com> wrote:
Not completed sorted out yet, but the below is known...
The ribbon cable going to the floppy drive is torn. I notice that there
is one on ebay.
The hinge between the main body of the laptop and the screen is damaged.
The screen (grayscale, not color) is not right...hard to describe. Very
low contrast, bubbly.
It does boot with a color monitor plugged into it, and that works.
The batteries are dead but it will run off of the AC adapter. Any
solution on the batteries?
It would be easiest to start with a new functional machine, but my son
wants to try to fix it, and I am ok with that.
What's the best OS to run on the 520? I've noted that it crashes when
booted with extensions, but will boot to stable with extensions
off...but then you can't do anything with the machine. It looks like it
has 8.1 on it...with tons of extensions. We haven't used it for a long
time; it was my wife's machine back in the day.
Thanks,
MarkN
I'm sure that there are more issues.
On 2/1/19 11:19 AM, Jeff Hubatka wrote:
> Do you know what parts you need?
> I have a bunch of stuff in boxes in my garage, including screens,
keyboards, floppy drives, dead batteries etc.
> I also have an odd machine that is the 550 color with a
Japanese/English keyboard along with a grayscale screen and 33mhz
processor.
>
> JeffH
>
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