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Yet Another Scrap Saved Mac-- PowerBook Duo 230!

Superdos

Well-known member
Got another call from my friend that deals in scrapmetal. big huge pile of all manners of PC stuff to go through for anything.

grabbed my two car radiators and dropped them off and in, along with some computer scrap. picked up another computer for someone, etc.

What it looked like when I got there:

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What it looked like when I left:

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What I walked away with:

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(Yes, that's a Quantum Snap! server 1000 in the top right of the box! dunno if it works. nifty IP camera that goes for US$100 on Fleabay as well.)

So while I was going through, friend and his cousin of whom is a local EMT are talking about stuff and they mention that I know model numbers up the wazoo of things, and that with me, I get excited over really nice things or really old things.

he was saying that as I picked up one of those nylon reusable shopping bags with this bad boy in it.... and upon doing quick testing of it when I got home (I was in a rush), it works. how well it works is another story.

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Keyboard is about as stiff-feeling as you'd expect it. the ghosting lines on the screen possibly means I need to re-cap it, right? or were they always that bad? brightness/contrast adjustment helps very little.

it also came with the SCSI floppy drive and the proper AC adapter, thankfully. I may just do some stuff to this; I have an in-pieces duo 2300c...

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
Very, very nice! But why the heck did you sell that rack? I got my TelCo rack from the recycler i used back in the day and I can't imagine ever selling one of any kind for scrap.

2300cTB is to die for. TrackPads from that era were uniformly AWFUL!

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galgot

Well-known member
It was the Duo week :) Just started configuring 7.6.1 on mine...

Beautiful machine, congrats.

 

Superdos

Well-known member
Very, very nice! But why the heck did you sell that rack? I got my TelCo rack from the recycler i used back in the day and I can't imagine ever selling one of any kind for scrap.

2300cTB is to die for. TrackPads from that era were uniformly AWFUL!

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not mine to sell-- this was over at my friend's place.

one, it's horribly heavy.

two, no space for it. I'd rather see it get scrapped and get a much smaller branded rack, that rack would easily take up too much space.

Haven't really messed with the Duo for the past few days... been working on more pressing matters. hard drives in my main computer are getting old/worn and I'm now at this very moment working on the second copy-over of two. sometimes it pays to have a friend in the business that can get you free high-capacity IDE and SATA drives that actually have good SMART readouts. :D

 

CC_333

Well-known member
Speaking of racks, I've been meaning to invest in one, but the only physical place I know of that sells what I'd want at a decent price (WeirdStuff in Sunnyvale) is too far away for me to transport such a thing easily.

It's not really a big deal, though, as I wouldn't know where to put it anyway.

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