I thought I would share this as I have never seen anything quite like this. I bought this Powerbook 145b on eBay and it was described as having damage 'possibly from a drill' . I do not think you need to be much of a detective on this one LOL. It arrived very poorly packed with only a few pieces...
I happened to see a listing on eBay for a Newton 2100 that came with a bunch of cards (including a 32 mb flash! ), original stylus and an original 9w power supply. And as well as a broken 2100 thrown in, all for a good price. Actually an amount that I would have paid just for the accessories...
I pulled out my stored Powerbook 145b, in what I thought was pristine condition. Hard drive was dead (did not even try to spin), unable to revive (IBM so no sticky rbubber bumpers to fix), so I installed a BlueSCSI which worked beautifully. Nice. What the heck, I am on a roll so I then replaced...
Long term storage of my LC575 - tested today and no longer boots. Ughh. Pulled board and while caps look ok (I plan to replace them all of course), I noticed that a component labelled LP1 (marked 'PECKO 0063' on mine, but on other boards I have seen online is 'Steward 430-2 155-0064'. I think it...