Q: CD Drive for PowerBook 1400cs

In addition to eBay you might contact some of these sellers of old Mac pars.

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/

http://www.pbparts.com/

http://www.wegenermedia.com/

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/macmain.html

http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/oldmac.html#hard

Alternatively, you could use a CompactFlash card in an inexpensive PC Card adapter for CompactFlash for file transfers from a modern computer to the PowerBook 1400cs. There are also PC Card adapters for some other flash memory card types. The modern computer may be able to write directly to certain flash memory cards, or an external USB reader could be used.

If necessary, one can usually reformat a PC-formatted memory card to Mac without a problem. In this case, with System 7.5.3 on the PowerBook 1400cs, make sure that Mac OS Standard (HFS) is used on the memory card. Also, please note that it is not possible to write to Mac OS Standard (HFS) from a modern Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

It should be possible to transfer files on a PC-formatted card. Just keep any downloaded Mac application files unaltered as MacBinary (.bin), BinHex (.hqx), or StuffIt (.sit). Do not decode/decompress until on the PowerBook 1400cs.

Jan

I have one of these. No way of testing it though as my PB battery is compelety dead. I also have a Zip Drive module for the 1400.

I'm in the UK

Well, if you are interested, you'd need to find a way to make me an offer. It could be posted to the States.