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I wasn't exactly clear where the PowerBook came from. I made it sound like my mom gave me a 20 year old broken computer as a gift. Ha. Yes quite the project indeed. It is at a stand still right now because yesterday I un-soldered the ram battery out of one of the boards. So essentially all...

This was my first macintosh that I purchased with an educational discount freshman year 1992. I used it regularly until 1996 when I moved over to a windows PC. Around that time it worked fine and was put into a drawer never to be used again. When I checked on it about 8 years ago the main...

Thank you for your response DeltaMac. Good call. I totally forgot about the cmos battery or whatever apple called it, after 20 years it has to be dead. I ordered a main laptop replacement battery just to have one, but I was able to open the old powerbook and extract the old motherboard cmos...

I returned home for Thanksgiving and my mother surprised me and presented me with my first computer from college a PowerBook 145; the only problem is that it doesn't work. I would love to get this thing up and running again but it has some issues. I think the battery might be nuked because...