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Hardware projects [message #404295] Sat, 16 January 2021 16:43 Go to next message
tortoise is currently offline  tortoise
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Hello, for those who read my post last summer I did finally on the third
try get a working Performa 6320 (6300 / 120) motherboard to upgrade my
Quadra 630 and happily plugging away with basics of FORTRAN (freeware
macf2c couldn’t get a PPC version of Absoft compiler)and Tcl / Tk (version
8.3 works well and freeware open source extensions Mac versions available).

Decided to go ahead and try to repair the (architecturally equivalent)
PowerBook 1400 with the failing display if I can find one. Posted just now
to swap list WTB but thought to note it here. If anyone has a 1400
PowerBook with known good display working or not or a display unit with
cable I’d really like to find one.

As far as I can see the PowerBook list is dead? No posts in several years
despite signs of interest elsewhere. (Posted myself a couple years back and
got no response).

Anyway sad to be drifting away from 68k tho still have a PowerBook 520c
68040. A new (current software version!) port of Lua for Mac came out in
2019, had some interesting dialogue with the developer / porter last summer
over some bug fixes and got to work with some 1993 pre PowerPC MPW version
there as well as some testing on the Quadra. So haven’t quite yet
completely abandoned 68k. Interested to hear of any recent open source /
freeware software projects. (MacLua 5.3 console / shell works fine on old
68k it’s just the MPW tool that’s not working in the pre-PowerPC MPW shell)

By the way if anyone has been using SetDate, the newish freeware control
panel to get your year on the system clock past 2019 (and not get it set
back to 1920 when you tried). I was frustrated for a while that it would
crash on certain machines / MacOS versions. Seems workaround is to set all
but the year with Apple’s DateAndTime then set only the year with SetDate.

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Re: Hardware projects [message #404302 is a reply to message #404295] Sun, 17 January 2021 01:17 Go to previous message
m black is currently offline  m black
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I have a PowerBook 1400. It’s for sale to you. It’s in my office at work. Just collecting dust.

The last time I booted was about 10 years ago. He booted fine and ran fine. I don’t think I can find the cable, connection to wall plug in.

I am in the process of replacing the rechargeable battery pack. Stop me, and take this off of my hands, and have a go to a better place.

If you can, contact me off-line, or off thread.

Sent from iPhone
Mike

> On Jan 16, 2021, at 3:43 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, for those who read my post last summer I did finally on the third try get a working Performa 6320 (6300 / 120) motherboard to upgrade my Quadra 630 and happily plugging away with basics of FORTRAN (freeware macf2c couldn’t get a PPC version of Absoft compiler)and Tcl / Tk (version 8.3 works well and freeware open source extensions Mac versions available).
>
> Decided to go ahead and try to repair the (architecturally equivalent) PowerBook 1400 with the failing display if I can find one. Posted just now to swap list WTB but thought to note it here. If anyone has a 1400 PowerBook with known good display working or not or a display unit with cable I’d really like to find one.
>
> As far as I can see the PowerBook list is dead? No posts in several years despite signs of interest elsewhere. (Posted myself a couple years back and got no response).
>
> Anyway sad to be drifting away from 68k tho still have a PowerBook 520c 68040. A new (current software version!) port of Lua for Mac came out in 2019, had some interesting dialogue with the developer / porter last summer over some bug fixes and got to work with some 1993 pre PowerPC MPW version there as well as some testing on the Quadra. So haven’t quite yet completely abandoned 68k. Interested to hear of any recent open source / freeware software projects. (MacLua 5.3 console / shell works fine on old 68k it’s just the MPW tool that’s not working in the pre-PowerPC MPW shell)
>
> By the way if anyone has been using SetDate, the newish freeware control panel to get your year on the system clock past 2019 (and not get it set back to 1920 when you tried). I was frustrated for a while that it would crash on certain machines / MacOS versions. Seems workaround is to set all but the year with Apple’s DateAndTime then set only the year with SetDate.
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