pinto_guy
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So I recently acquired an original Walkmac (photo below) from the estate of the late Chuck Colby, founder of Colby Computers. The Walkmac used a Mac Plus logic board, and attached an LCD and a battery to package an arguably fully portable computer (it still missed a keyboard and a mouse), a full year before Apple's luggable. One cool feature is that you could plug in external storage peripherals (FDD and/or HDD) directly into it from the side. See some more discussion on this here.
I'm now trying to revive it. After toying with it quite a bit I could get the simasimac screen on the LCD (2nd photo below), but the LB refuses to boot up. Something I noticed is that it's missing the +12V line from the power supply. Do you know if the lack of +12V would prevent the LB from booting ? I thought 12V was only used for the FDD and HDD, but I could be wrong. Thanks in advance.
I'm now trying to revive it. After toying with it quite a bit I could get the simasimac screen on the LCD (2nd photo below), but the LB refuses to boot up. Something I noticed is that it's missing the +12V line from the power supply. Do you know if the lack of +12V would prevent the LB from booting ? I thought 12V was only used for the FDD and HDD, but I could be wrong. Thanks in advance.