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12 September, 2008 By Holden Scott Well, after some messing around, I finally managed to get a SanDisk Ultra II 4 GB CF card into my PowerBook 5300ce with the requisite CF-IDE adapter. Fast and total silence... Read on if you want to do likewise. After reading Dan Knight’s “Silence is Golden” (LEM), I decided to follow suit and install a Compact Flash card (CF card) in place of the old, 1.1 GB, noisy, spinny hard drive that was in my PowerBook 5300ce. ... Read More

12 September, 2008 By Holden Scott Simple, fresh, back to basics and back to work. No overly excessive GUI distractions, just the pureness and quickness of OS 9 on the black shark. Ah, back to when things were still somewhat simple, the OS 8 and 9 days. It was 1998, and the PowerBook Wallstreet was a radical departure from the previous PowerBooks that preceded it. Not that prior PowerBooks weren’t notable, but he Wallstreet was the completely redesigned, and the first PowerBook ... Read More

11 September, 2008 By Holden Scott Well, it seems that you can't just buy any old upgrade chip for the Wallstreet. If you buy one that was in a PDQ (233, 250 or 292 MHz machines), for example, chances are it won't work in a Wallstreet (233, 266 or 300 MHz machines). The problem is linked to how the upgrade chip is flashed: it can only be flashed once by the user. Once flashed, the chip will be incompatible with a ... Read More

10 September, 2008 By Holden Scott Some interesting articles I dug up on wired.com. Check out the link: Wired News Newton Articles Read More