Hi everyone, so from the Mac Museum I was able to find ONE working unit but even that one was missing parts.. namely the PSU and a battery (big gaping hole under it).. but the unit was said to boot according to a sticky note.
So I got a PSU for cheap (like under $20 or so with shipping) and it arrived today from ebay, it ain't pretty and it's definitely showing its age but not too scary...
I also got my hands on a local seller of a 12" powerbook but it's a 1.0ghz model.. HOWEVER the battery it came with (the main reason i got it) turns out to hold a decent charge.. AND it had 512mb DDR chip it it.
However, I moved that chip from the 1.0ghz "spare" to the 1.33ghz unit and it appears to not see the 512mb extra.. only the built in 256mb memory.. but it booted ok so it wasn't like the memory is likely to be bad in that case.
Is there some trick I need to do to get the mac to see the ram? I assumed the mac was advanced enough to auto detect like later macs do.
also these have a Ultra ATA/100 hard drive, is there an SSD solution for powerbooks? I know they make IDE to SATA but would there be something small enough for powerbooks to have an ssd adapter? I know the adapter I used in my G4 tower was no biggie because i had lots of space.. but yea i'd love to retire that old / slow / power sucking spinner with a quiet SSD
oh and if i want to reinstall OSX tiger on it.. it's a generic install right? shouldn't have any drivers issues or anything? would worry that the system disks might be specific to the particular models.. i seem to recall my 17" macbook pro or maybe it was an iMac that came with system disks that were intended for THAT computer, not universal.
Thanks!
Caleb