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Digging out more 'books.

Anonymous Freak

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Alright, in my cleaning effort, (nearly) all of my PowerBooks have been dug out.

I have found the following:

Macintosh Portable, Backlit: Dead. Documented in my sale thread. (Although I have decided to keep it.)

PowerBook 100: Dead. Documented in my sale thread.

PowerBook 140: 4 MB RAM, dead hard drive. Boots to floppy, no disk utilities see the hard drive.

PowerBook 180: 14 MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook 520c: 20 MB RAM, MB hard drive. The hinge-front piece (the one that covers the microphone,) has a broken retention tab, so it doesn't stay put, and the lid latch is broken off, so it doesn't auto-sleep. But it functions perfectly.

PowerBook 520c: with 133 MHz PowerPC Upgrade! 12 MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook Duo 230: Dead. Documented in sale thread.

PowerBook Duo 230: MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook Duo 280c: 24 MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook Duo 2300c: ? MB RAM, ? MB hard drive. The last one in storage, couldn't quite reach it.

PowerBook 5300: 8 MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly (albeit insanely slowly, thanks to the pitiful amount of RAM.)

PowerBook 5300c: MB RAM, MB hard drive. Split hinge, loose power connector, as with many 5300s. Otherwise works perfectly. This one is likely to be in my next batch of sales.

PowerBook 5300c: MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook 5300c: MB RAM, MB hard drive. Works perfectly. (Yes, I have three 5300c's.)

PowerBook 5300ce: MB RAM, MB hard drive. The screen is dead. I dropped it a few years ago :( The screen will function normally if you are actively applying a ridiculous amount of torque to two opposing corners. As soon as you let go, the top third 'freezes' with what was last shown, and over the course of a minute fades to white; while the bottom two thirds freezes with what was last shown, and just stays that way. I think I disconnected the data connection in the panel itself... Works perfectly on an external display.

PowerBook 1400c/133: with 183 MHz 603ev NewerTech Upgrade: 64 MB RAM, MB hard drive. Trackpad button is permanently stuck 'down'. (It's the underlying button itself, not the plastic top piece.) Otherwise works perfectly.

PowerBook 1400c/166: See sale thread for fuller description of this and the previous.

PowerBook G3 Lombard: See sale thread for fuller description.

PowerBook G3 Lombard: See sale thread for fuller description.

iBook: Original 'Tangerine' model, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive. Works perfectly.

PowerBook G4: 12" Aluminum Rev A, 867 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, Combo Drive. Works perfectly.

MacBook Pro: 15" Rev A, 2.0 GHz Core Duo, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB hard drive. My primary machine. Upgraded with Apple 802.11n card.

MacBook: Rev A, 2.0 GHz Core Duo, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB hard drive. My wife's primary machine.

And, I have a bunch of PowerBook accessories:

Portable:

Original carrying case, original power brick.

100-series:

Three power bricks

Battery charger

Three batteries (Two Apple-branded, one generic. One of the Apple-branded claims to hold a charge, but doesn't; the other Apple and the generic don't even claim to hold a charge.)

Two battery cases. One is a hard side 'snap closed' case, the other is a thin plastic 'velcro closed' case.

500-series:

One power brick

Three batteries (two fail "Intelligent Recondition" outright, one goes quite a ways before failing. I'm sending two out to be rebuilt.)

One PCMCIA cage, rev B. Works in the non-PowerPC model.

One battery bay cover.

Duo:

One power brick

Two type II batteries, one holds a small charge, the other is completely dead.

One type III battery, claims to hold a charge but doesn't.

Two battery cases.

Two floppy docks, with two floppy drives.

Two Microdocks, one Apple stock, one E-Machines EtherDock.

Two full-size docks, one original, one with Color lid upgrade.

5300:

Five or six power bricks

Seven or eight batteries. A few hold some small charge, a couple are completely dead, one holds over an hour's charge. All but one are Apple-branded.

One floppy-bay PCMCIA card holder/weight saving device.

1400:

One power brick

Three batteries, two dead, one holds a charge.

One floppy drive

One CD-ROM drive, missing bezel.

One 'black/stock' BookCover

Two clear BookCovers, with one full set of supplied inserts.

G3-series:

Two batteries, both dead. (One isn't even recognized, one claims to hold a charge but doesn't.)

Two CD-ROM drives, one with a broken (but present) bezel.

One "weight saving device".

Non-specific:

One old Apple laptop bag, probably from the same age as the 5300-series.

One Apple PowerCD, with base. (I use it as my primary PowerBook CD drive.)

Two Panasonic portable 4X CD-ROM drives. (Run off either six AA batteries or small power brick, uses standard Mini-Centronics-50 SCSI port, came with PowerBook-to-MC50 cable; so I don't need to use an adapter like with the PowerCD. Also a lot smaller, only marginally bigger than a standard portable CD player.)

One Sony portable 4X CD-ROM drive. Runs off either custom LiIon battery (which I don't have) or small power brick. Uses custom SCSI connector (I have the cable for it somewhere.....) Smaller than the Panasonic, but I can't find the data cable, and don't have a battery, so it's rather useless at the moment.

PCMCIA Cards (That are commonly used with my PowerBooks):

Lucent WaveLAN IEEE Gold card - Yup, the standard old WiFi card. I've had this since 1999.

Dayna CommuniCard Ethernet card - With drivers, of course. Uses custom dongle that has its own RJ-45 plug, so if it's not long enough, you have to use a coupler and another cable to extend it.

Global Village PowerPort Mercury - Combo 33.6 Modem/Ethernet. Uses custom dongle to provide jacks of each, so you use your own cable.

SanDisk 32 MB ATA Flash Card - Ah, the original use of PCMCIA. This is a 32 MB flash drive that appears to the computer as if it were connected via IDE, since that's what the PCMCIA slot was originally for. I have a stripped down Mac OS 7.6 install on it right now.

Sony Memory Stick to PC Card Adapter - I use it similarly to the SanDisk Flash Card. I have one 256 MB "MS Select" (meaning it's really just two 128 MB cards in one, and you have to move a switch to pick which one you want to use,) in it right now. 7.5.5 on one side, 7.6 on the other.

 

Anonymous Freak

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Any chance of selling the TiBook cheap? I have been wanting a TiBook for a while...
Uh... There's no TiBook. There are a couple G3s, and an Aluminum G4. And while I'm selling one of the G3s, I will not be selling the G4, it's my daughter's laptop!

 

Anonymous Freak

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G-AH!

I just realized that this post has gotten moved to the wrong forum!

This is NOT a list of "for-sale" items.

This was just a list of items, a few of which happen to be for sale. I meant to post this in the "68k PowerBook" forum. I don't know who moved it or why. The ones that are for sale were specifically listed in the top post as "mentioned in my for sale thread" or similar.

Please move this back to the 68k PowerBook forum (or The Lounge, if a simple listing doesn't belong in the system forums.)

(aka, I didn't notice it got moved, and wondered why I had gotten a bunch of PMs asking the prices of items that I have no intention of selling!)

In short: Everything I'm selling will be listed in my ongoing "Freak's Fogey Firesale" threads in the Trading Post. It just happens that while I'm going through my equipment, I will probably post the 'keepers' I find in storage, too, just to document them.

 

Strimkind

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Quite the collection with quite a few unique items. Namely, the hard to find PPC upgrade for the 520c, and the ethernet dock for the duo series.

 

Dog Cow

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I just realized that this post has gotten moved to the wrong forum!
This is NOT a list of "for-sale" items.

This was just a list of items,
We need a show-off forum, don't we? :p

Well, we've got Conquests, so now we need a forum for our existing possessions.

 

Anonymous Freak

Well-known member
I just realized that this post has gotten moved to the wrong forum!
This is NOT a list of "for-sale" items.

This was just a list of items,
We need a show-off forum, don't we? :p

Well, we've got Conquests, so now we need a forum for our existing possessions.
To me, this might as well have been a 'conquest', as they've been in storage so long, I'd forgotten about half of them.

I did discover that the PPC upgrade is an oddball. It's 133 MHz. I can't find a reference to a 133 MHz upgrade card *anywhere* for this series.

 

Dog Cow

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Ah yes, I know the experience well. One has many boxes of possessions tucked away in some closet. One has nearly forgotten of them, but oh the joy of rediscovering them after a time. One must enjoy one's collection of possessions in careful moderation, lest they become stale and boring.

 

Mars478

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You love something the most when it is taken away from you.

(or something along those lines :cool: )

 
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