I got a DUO!!!...but.......

[The Macster]

It does actually look like people are willing to pay silly amounts for Duo Dock stuff - look how much this seller thinks he will be able to get just for a working power supply (the part that causes all of them to die eventually - this is what was wrong with mine) for the Duo Dock! A Duo 250 with Duo Dock also sold for 130 Euros (£90), excluding postage, recently!

 

[heebiejeebies]

Silly!!

I doubt he'll get that for the power supply.

Some eBay sellers have their heads in the clouds. I don't understand how some of them break even - charging almost retail price for things when people could just go out and buy them immediately for only a little bit extra. Or sometimes the same price!

Like this plonker. Why would I pay $130 for a hat I can't even try on?: [8D]

http://tinyurl.com/ysbsgu

"Tell him he's dreamin'." :

 

[Quadraman]

It does actually look like people are willing to pay silly amounts for Duo Dock stuff - look how much this seller thinks he will be able to get just for a working power supply (the part that causes all of them to die eventually - this is what was wrong with mine) for the Duo Dock! A Duo 250 with Duo Dock also sold for 130 Euros (£90), excluding postage, recently!

That's the same guy who sells Quadra 950's for almost $1000. His prices for other parts suck, too. He doesn't even provide photos of the items he is selling.

 

[The Macster]

Now that I'm back at home, I gave the Duo 230 (the dead one) a try with the MiniDock, floppy drive and external monitor, and sure enough it does boot off the floppy disk and activate the external monitor, so it appears that the internal screen is dead as well as the hard drive missing (and possibly the speaker dead too, as it doesn't chime). However, I just get the grey background screen on the external monitor and the cursor appears if I roll the mouse across, so presumably it is making an extended desktop on there as I can hear the floppy booting but can't see the desktop icons/menu bar, and I can't see anything on the keyboard to switch it into mirroring (and can't see the control strip of course!). I tried starting up with the lid down, but it still insists on using the internal screen as the primary display. Anyway, this does confirm that this Duo is totally dead, given that the internal screen is not working :'( I can't see anything on the screen at all - it looks completely dead, as opposed to just a dead backlight where you can still see faintly (if these screens even work in the same way as the newer LCDs). I'm going to get the other one, the 210, out soon anyway, and get OS 7.6 set up on it