frankblues
Active member
Hey, my first post!
So, I was wandering about my local thrift, and in the "collectables" section I see what looks like an older mac laptop in pretty good condition. They want $55 for it, but the lady in the department tells me to make an offer. I hesitantly offer $30, and walk out with a PowerBook 150 in really nice shape. It had the original recovery floppy, NiCd battery (which seems to be really dead), power adapter, a nice Targus carry bag, and the little plastic thingy that covers the battery compartment.
I got it home, it rattled a bit and they keyboard seemed semi responsive. Opened it up (amazing how there was no dust at all in there...) and the screws that held the keyboard up were loose and all over. They went right back in, I tightened the other screws up, and low and behold, keyboard is just fine.
I've now got system 7.5.5, 7.5.3, and the original 7.1.1 on there. I've got it on the home network with a EtherWave that I picked up from Ebay. 7.1.1 likes it just fine (I've even got TCP/IP working right), but 7.5.5 is grumpy. I've only got 4mb of ram, so keeping it in 7.1.1 is probably best anyway.
I've also been doing a bit of a self-rescue. I bought an LC III (okay, Performa 450) in college eons ago, and I powered it up every once in a while to see that it still works. I just this week stuck a brand new Farallon Ethernet card in it, brought it upstairs, and now it's sitting on the network as well. It has 20mb of ram, 80mb HD, and an external zip.
You may have gotten another addict, er, I mean, member...
So, I was wandering about my local thrift, and in the "collectables" section I see what looks like an older mac laptop in pretty good condition. They want $55 for it, but the lady in the department tells me to make an offer. I hesitantly offer $30, and walk out with a PowerBook 150 in really nice shape. It had the original recovery floppy, NiCd battery (which seems to be really dead), power adapter, a nice Targus carry bag, and the little plastic thingy that covers the battery compartment.
I got it home, it rattled a bit and they keyboard seemed semi responsive. Opened it up (amazing how there was no dust at all in there...) and the screws that held the keyboard up were loose and all over. They went right back in, I tightened the other screws up, and low and behold, keyboard is just fine.
I've now got system 7.5.5, 7.5.3, and the original 7.1.1 on there. I've got it on the home network with a EtherWave that I picked up from Ebay. 7.1.1 likes it just fine (I've even got TCP/IP working right), but 7.5.5 is grumpy. I've only got 4mb of ram, so keeping it in 7.1.1 is probably best anyway.
I've also been doing a bit of a self-rescue. I bought an LC III (okay, Performa 450) in college eons ago, and I powered it up every once in a while to see that it still works. I just this week stuck a brand new Farallon Ethernet card in it, brought it upstairs, and now it's sitting on the network as well. It has 20mb of ram, 80mb HD, and an external zip.
You may have gotten another addict, er, I mean, member...
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