Service videos for 1xx/2xx/5xx on ebay

[Bunsen]

Now this is an odd find:

On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training Courses. This box is new and factory sealed. It contains a VHS video cassette (likely NTSC format) and documentation covering the take apart and servicing of the PowerBook {x00}

 

[LCGuy]

I saw that the other day, and if it was for the 1xx series, rather than the 100, I'd totally be going for it.

 

[Bunsen]

Quite right you are. I should have transcribed his description as is: Powerbook 100/200/500. Considering there is no Powerbook 200 or 500, I took a guess that they were for the series.

 

[LCGuy]

Either way, it'd be great if someone here was to buy them and put them up on youtube or something - if I had some disposable income I'd be doing it, but I currently have no access to a VCR, and the next time I do I'll be back at home on dialup, and after that I have no clue as to when I'll be back on high speed. (and i'm not uploading youtube videos over dialup)

 

[tyrannis]

If someone here is bidding on this, please let me know. I will try to win them, but if there is an Australian member about to purchase these and they are willing to upload them, that is a better solution.

 

[shred]

I remember throwing a heap of those self-paced training videos out about 10 years ago. I still have the certificates for successfully completing the "self-track" courses. (You took a computer based test at the end and sent it off to Apple to prove that you had understood the content on the video tape).

Someone would have signed a non-disclosure agreement with Apple to get them originally, so the legality of selling them on eBay is somewhat dubious...

 

[tyrannis]

Shred, were your tapes NTSC or PAL? If Apple shipped PAL tapes to Australia (the prudent choice), then I have no business bidding on this. I really don't want to dig up the old PAL equipment from the Indonesia days..

 

[Bunsen]

Well, the seller does say "most likely NTSC". You might want to ask him why he thinks that.

/ETA/ I have a broadcast quality VHS PAL (and possibly NTSC) dubbing deck here. If you like, I could dub and upload them here and then send you the originals for your collection. Fraid I don't has the cash to bid on them though

 

[LCGuy]

I personally am thinking of bidding on the PowerBook 100 one. The only trouble is that I'm living on campus at uni, and while I have access to high speed Internet here, I don't have access to a VCR. Meanwhile, back at home, I have access to a VCR, and a Performa to digitise the video, but only dialup internet.

 

[Osgeld]

"but i dont have a vcr"

Goodwill or any thrift store will have a hundered of them for 2 bucks each, turn around when your done and donate it back

"but when i can digitize it I only have access to dialup, and computer data is impossible to move without Internet"

buy a memory stick, bring a hard drive, pack it in a multipart zip file and stick it on cd's, crap Ill even give some one a pc tv tuner card

Im don't have the slightest interest in these videos but man there are some poor excuses

:O

 

[LCGuy]

1. I'm living on campus. I have limited SPACE, and even if I had the space, the only computers I have that have video input (a Performa 5260 and an LC630) are at home, about 200 miles away which is a long way when you have no car!

2. Unfortunately unlike most people I don't live in one of those strange countries where intarweb just happens to come out of a tap anywhere at any time for everyone to use or anything overly utopian like that. I live in a rural area, on a farm, which is serviced by crappy Telstra infastructure dated cicra-1950s, and I just don't HAVE any way of getting on high speed Internet there, as much as I'd love to. I've had this argument millions of times and to be quite frank, since there's absolutely nothing I can do about it, I'm really quite sick of it.

 

[Osgeld]

2) sorry for ya, I lived in an area for quite some time, then lucked out and clearwire moved in, but before that I would hit the parents with every piece of storage media I could find, toss it in a grocery bag, and abuse their cable modem

Its a hassle but one could digitize in location A, compress it in a multipart file, then burn cd's fill memory sticks, and shove the last 2mb on a palm pilot and upload when they had a good connection agin

You seem to be the only one interested in doing that, so im offering other suggestions, sorry if my post's seem brash

 

[MacJunky]

Goodwill or any thrift store will have a hundered of them for 2 bucks each, turn around when your done and donate it back

You need to be careful as they are generally very worn out and sometimes munch tapes. If they are worn you get bad quality, if it munches, you get ruined tapes.

 

[tyrannis]

If you like, I could dub and upload them here and then send you the originals for your collection.

Four hours out no word from the seller on the video standard - I'll let you know what happens.

I personally am thinking of bidding on the PowerBook 100 one.

I'd prefer to avoid bidding against you, so inform me if you plan to bid. The goal here is to make comprehensive service instruction widely available.

 

[LCGuy]

I am going to put in a bid closer to the end of the auction, but I probably won't go any higher than say...AU$15, due to my limited funds.

 

[shred]

Shred, were your tapes NTSC or PAL?

The ones distributed to Australian service centres were PAL.

 

[Bunsen]

/ETA/ I have a broadcast quality VHS PAL (and possibly NTSC) dubbing deck here.

And an 840AV with a Spigot Pro AV. Heh, maybe this can be my RetroChallenge

 

[tyrannis]

I have a broadcast quality VHS PAL (and possibly NTSC) dubbing deck here.

I won the 2xx and 5xx videos. I'm assuming that was LCGuy sniping me at the end of the 1xx auction. The bidding activity was very low; a few dollars per tape is a small price to pay in order to ensure these are uploaded.

Would you send me your mailing address in a PM, Bunsen?

 

[LCGuy]

Nah it wasn't me - I wussed out after it went past AU$15, due to my lack of funds. Congrats on winning the 2xx and 5xx videos. Good to see that they're going to someone who can share them with the rest of the world.