[rescue] PB 1400s

[Shawn Wallbridge]

The Dell TrueMobile 1150 is a Orinoco Silver. I bought one for $35.

shawn

On 26-Jan-05, at 3:32 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Just as a note, there were lots of variations of the pb1400.
>
> There were two display options, the 1400cs with a pasive matrix color 
> screen
> and the 1400c with a TFT screen. The TFT screen looks better and 
> refreshes
> faster, but uses more battery power.
>
> There were 4 CPU options:
> 1.	117 mHz no cache (slow..........)
> 2.	133 mHz with cache (alost twice a fast as #1)
> 3.      166mHz with cache
> 4.      233mHz G3 with cache (3rd party)
>
> I have a 1400cs with the 117 (and a bad memory chip won't go beyond 
> 4m),
> a 133 1400cs with 48m ram and a 233 G3 1400c with 64m ram. The G3 is a 
> real
> spead demon, but a fully charged battery only lasts 45 minutes, 
> compared
> to 2 hours on the 133 cs.
>
> Both run OS 9.1.5 pretty well.
>
> Tip: Airport base stations contain a Wifi card that works fine on the 
> 1400.
> If you can find a broken one, it may just have a working card. :-)
>
> Odd comment: My 9 year old son has the 133 1400cs and an iMac running
> Os X. He can't decide which user interface he likes better, they seem
> pretty close to him.
>
> Begging: If anyone has 1400 parts or dead airport base stations, or 
> Orinoco
> silver or equivalent wifi cards and is not in a hurry to get paid, 
> please
> send them to Sambo (Sammy Ominsky) and he'll send them to me. In a few 
> months
> when I have money, I'll send you something for them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geoff.
> -- 
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