Got lucky with a 2nd hand listing I came across.
Three Duo Docks, two of them had a powerbook inside, bought them for 100€, hoping there was some life in it.
Owner inherited them from a deceased family member, didn't even know what they were, never put power on.
Them Duo Docks are pretty rare and hard to find apparently, and I have a working Powerbook duo 230 with empty hard drive lying around, but no dock, so not yet been able to put an OS on it! So one working dock would already have been nice.
Guess I struck gold.
Both docks with the Powerbooks in them are working. As are the Powerbooks themselves! Both are Duo 230's.
The third dock seems to be dead, maybe just the powersupply, doesn't pull the powerbook in when you insert it.
The working ones seem to be specced out as well, both have a SCSI HD inside, but only one of those drives works (a 240MB Quantum).
Both docks have an extra memory stick with video ram (not sure if it's a 512KB or 1MB stick, have yet to investigate further).
They also have the optional Motorola 68882 FPU installed.
Both have extra nubus cards in them, not too sure yet which cards, guess they are to connect extra monitors, at least the card with only the DB connector puts out a signal, the one with what looks like some sort of s-video connector on both sides of the the DB connector I haven't tried yet.
The non working dock has some sort of nubus network card in it, it has the 14 ping AAUI connector witha red and green LED next to it. No dongle though.
Both powerbooks were loaded with software as well, early photoshop, some CAD program, the common Microsoft programs (Word/Excel), the back then very popular RAM Doubler (both Powerbooks seem to have 12MB installed, so an extra 8MB on top of the soldered on 4MB).
Some pictures:
Three Duo Docks, two of them had a powerbook inside, bought them for 100€, hoping there was some life in it.
Owner inherited them from a deceased family member, didn't even know what they were, never put power on.
Them Duo Docks are pretty rare and hard to find apparently, and I have a working Powerbook duo 230 with empty hard drive lying around, but no dock, so not yet been able to put an OS on it! So one working dock would already have been nice.
Guess I struck gold.
Both docks with the Powerbooks in them are working. As are the Powerbooks themselves! Both are Duo 230's.
The third dock seems to be dead, maybe just the powersupply, doesn't pull the powerbook in when you insert it.
The working ones seem to be specced out as well, both have a SCSI HD inside, but only one of those drives works (a 240MB Quantum).
Both docks have an extra memory stick with video ram (not sure if it's a 512KB or 1MB stick, have yet to investigate further).
They also have the optional Motorola 68882 FPU installed.
Both have extra nubus cards in them, not too sure yet which cards, guess they are to connect extra monitors, at least the card with only the DB connector puts out a signal, the one with what looks like some sort of s-video connector on both sides of the the DB connector I haven't tried yet.
The non working dock has some sort of nubus network card in it, it has the 14 ping AAUI connector witha red and green LED next to it. No dongle though.
Both powerbooks were loaded with software as well, early photoshop, some CAD program, the common Microsoft programs (Word/Excel), the back then very popular RAM Doubler (both Powerbooks seem to have 12MB installed, so an extra 8MB on top of the soldered on 4MB).
Some pictures: