If you've got one and your 1400 is dying a slow moldy death in a closet, send me an E-mail. (By the way, the only major upgrade I'm missing for it is the hard-to-find solar cover, which I've sought for years. The 1400 has the best keyboard of any Mac laptop ever made, the highest marks for modularity and upgradability, and who doesn't like installing a different cover to match your mood? I eventually transplanted most of it to a new logic board when the old one got flaky, and this reincarnated version still works great where it gets lots of weird looks at the local coffee shop because I put biohazard stickers on the clear cover. Since then it picked up an Ethernet card (Nate had already installed a modem card), a new battery, an 8-bit video out card, a full 64MB complement of memory (supplemented by RAM Doubler), a 4GB hard disk and a 333MHz G3 and later a 466MHz G3 CPU board. It turned out to need a new inverter board and LCD, so I just bought a whole new top case for $140 and his 1400c/117 lived again.
My favourite Mac laptop of all time remains the PowerBook 1400, the first laptop I ever owned (I don't count the Commodore SX-64, which would be more likely to damage your lap) and my faithful companion for about five years as a hand-me-down from my brother-in-law, who had recently bought a snow iBook G3 and said that if I could fix the 1400, I could keep it.
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