Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2005

I have calibrated the display, but not using the advanced settings,
just the basic 1.8 gamma and 5000 K color temperature. The colors are
nicer (warmer) to my taste but the screen is still too bright when
working in low ambient light.

Go to system preferences and there is a icon with the name something like
accessability (its for settings for the handicapped). I am not using my mac
at this time so I am not sure of the exact name.  There is a way to change
the contrast and perhaps brightness. I have changed the contrast on my
Imac20 and it seems less bright and easier on the eyes.

Steve Buggie        buggie@unm.edu
UNM-Gallup
200 College Road
Gallup NM 87301

                        MACINTOSH POWERBOOK #170  LAPTOP
                        ==================================

    THANKS to all who offered advice on getting my Mac #170 to
read/write Apple II disks. Som eone sent me a file for the extensions
folder, and it now works!

NEED 12vDC POWER ADAPTOR:  The 115v AC adaptor gives output of DC 7.5
volts, 2.0 amps, center-positive polarity. What I now want is an adaptor
to run the computer from a cars cigarette lighter socket:  DC 12 volts.
Who has it? Would offer $10. if the adaptor is the orginal one for Mac
lamptop. (Would also buy the 115V AC adapter with this one as a pair. If
your Powerbook #170 is non-functioning, would bid for it also at a
nominally cheap price ($10) to get it for spare parts.

REPLACE INTERNAL BATTERY FOR MAC #170:  The battery inside my Mac #170
seems dead.  How do I get inside to replace the battery? Where can the
battery be purchased, and at approx what cost? Is it Ni-Cad or some other
type?  If I remove the screws from the bottom of the Mac 170, will any
components fly out?  Is the battery replacement user-serviceable?

Thanks, Steve Buggie                           buggie@unm.edu
2/17/2005

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