techknight
Well-known member
I just scored something that i have NEVER seen before. at least me personally.
I purchased and recieved a load of powerbook parts units off of ebay. for roughly $36 dollars including shipping. I needed them so i can scrounge enough parts to fix up my duo 2300 thats missing things. And i was praying on them having the SCSI HDDs in them. as the auction didnt specify whether they were included or not.
So, i got 3 powerbook Duos. a powerbook Duo 270C with a good screen, and one with a broken screen. both fire up. Got another powerbook duo 270C thats already upgraded 2300c.
got a literally destroyed powerbook 520c and a powerbook 1400c.
As you can imagine, i was quite pissed becuase ALL of the hard drives had been pulled. Bummer.... one of the main reasons i bought them. as the seller hadnt claimed if they were present or not. Also he DID claim the batteries were missing. But i discovered all 3 duos had batteries. only one battery is physically in good shape. the other 2 have broken plastics and its VERY brittle. the plastics on the battery just keep breaking apart.
The powerbook 1400C bezels are totally destroyed by someone attempting and succeeding in removing the HDD. Otherwise ALL the laptops power up, bong and WORK...
But the real gem is the powerbook 520c.
the 520c has a missing hinge plate cover, and busted hinges, plus the plastic bezels are busted in various places. laptop is basically impractical for every day useage. Plus the SCSI HDD is missing, so i cant even use it anyway. But i decided to dig out my old power adapter from a previous 540c that died years and years ago.
I was rewarded with a sign of life. it powered up and screen was good. It booted to a blinking disk icon with a 3D disk like on the newere PowerPC powerbooks. I thought to myself, thats strange. i dont remember seeing that on my old 540c i used to have. but anyway...
attempting to eject the floppy results in the whole computer just shutting off. And the 7.5NAD disk kept saying Not for this macintosh model. id hit restart, and the floppy would attempt to eject, but it would just shut the whole powerbook off. so something is either pulling massive power, and the AC adapter wont hold up, or the AC adapter is weak i thought.
So i hooked a SCSI CDROM and booted the Legacy CD. Low and behold, i was rewarded with this:
How common/Rare are these upgrades?
I purchased and recieved a load of powerbook parts units off of ebay. for roughly $36 dollars including shipping. I needed them so i can scrounge enough parts to fix up my duo 2300 thats missing things. And i was praying on them having the SCSI HDDs in them. as the auction didnt specify whether they were included or not.
So, i got 3 powerbook Duos. a powerbook Duo 270C with a good screen, and one with a broken screen. both fire up. Got another powerbook duo 270C thats already upgraded 2300c.
got a literally destroyed powerbook 520c and a powerbook 1400c.
As you can imagine, i was quite pissed becuase ALL of the hard drives had been pulled. Bummer.... one of the main reasons i bought them. as the seller hadnt claimed if they were present or not. Also he DID claim the batteries were missing. But i discovered all 3 duos had batteries. only one battery is physically in good shape. the other 2 have broken plastics and its VERY brittle. the plastics on the battery just keep breaking apart.
The powerbook 1400C bezels are totally destroyed by someone attempting and succeeding in removing the HDD. Otherwise ALL the laptops power up, bong and WORK...
But the real gem is the powerbook 520c.
the 520c has a missing hinge plate cover, and busted hinges, plus the plastic bezels are busted in various places. laptop is basically impractical for every day useage. Plus the SCSI HDD is missing, so i cant even use it anyway. But i decided to dig out my old power adapter from a previous 540c that died years and years ago.
I was rewarded with a sign of life. it powered up and screen was good. It booted to a blinking disk icon with a 3D disk like on the newere PowerPC powerbooks. I thought to myself, thats strange. i dont remember seeing that on my old 540c i used to have. but anyway...
attempting to eject the floppy results in the whole computer just shutting off. And the 7.5NAD disk kept saying Not for this macintosh model. id hit restart, and the floppy would attempt to eject, but it would just shut the whole powerbook off. so something is either pulling massive power, and the AC adapter wont hold up, or the AC adapter is weak i thought.
So i hooked a SCSI CDROM and booted the Legacy CD. Low and behold, i was rewarded with this:
How common/Rare are these upgrades?