steve30
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:16 am
Just thought I'd make a post to say that I bought a new logic board for my PowerBook 1400, as well as a 333MHz G3 upgrade and a Viewpowr video card
Just looking forward for them all to arrive now.
equill
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:42 am
Assuming that you have a 48MB RAM card already (otherwise the VIEWpowr will not fit in), you are right to go. Stay with OS 8.6 and you will have one responsive, snappy and satisfying PB. Enjoy!
de
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steve30
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:14 am
I think I have 48MB total, so that would be the 16MB built in + 32MB card. Will do for now but I will keep a look out for a 48MB card to take it up to 64MB.
alk
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:47 pm
Congrats! That sounds like a fun setup. Do you have any special plans for the 1400?
Peace,
Drew
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Anonymous Freak
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:33 pm
Yeah, I had a 1400cs with 64 MB RAM and a 242 MHz (IIRC, it was some oddball number,) G3 upgrade card. I loaned it out to an other-wise computer-less acquaintance who has since moved out of the country, last I heard. (He was still using it with Mac OS 9.1 and IE 5 as his primary internet computer over dial-up as of 2005.)
Great little machine. My dad had won a $3000 'shopping spree' at MacMall/PCMall back in 1996, and he was able to get the minimum PowerBook 1400, plus extra RAM. Passive matrix screen, slowest processor, not even the CD-ROM drive. After it had been replaced with a PowerBook G3, I bought it from him for $200 or something like that. (He had gotten the G3 upgrade and later full memory upgrade for it.)
equill
Posted: Tue Apr 8, 2008 10:43 am
Anonymous Freak
Posted: Tue Apr 8, 2008 3:00 pm
No, it really was an oddball number. No even multiple of 50 or 66-2/3 I'm betting it was the
216 MHz G3 upgrade. (I know it was a Newer Tech one, so that article's mention of 216 seems right.)
Some quick math makes it appear that since the PB1400 uses a 33-1/3 MHz bus, this upgrade likely used a 6.5x multiplier, making a 216-2/3 MHz chip. I guess we're mostly used to 200+ MHz chips using a 50 or 66-2/3 MHz (or faster) bus, so 216-2/3 isn't a number that "feels" right.
edit: Woo-hoo! Corporal! That's the real rank my grandmother was in the Marine Corps.
