Are the G3 upgrade cards still available?
“); // –> A: The PB1400 was one of the very few PowerBooks that Apple made with a CPU that was not soldered on to the motherboard. This allows the CPU to be upgraded with third party cards. Several companies saw the opportunity and began to market G3 cards for this machine. There was, for a long time, only two companies involved in producing cards: Newer Technology and Vimage (a child of Interware of Japan). Between them they made a whole host of different cards. Newer came out with a 233MHz card with 512k of backside cache and also a very popular 250MHz card with a full megabyte of cache. They also produced an earlier 216MHz card that was discontinued when the 233 card was released. Vimage managed only to produce a 233MHz card in volume before exiting the market. This card was on a par with the Newer 233 card and also came with 512k of cache. Vimage also produced a 266MHz card, but this is as rare as hen’s teeth, probably due to Vimage going out of business. All of the above cards we
