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You learn something new every day! I’m convinced I once saw a PowerBook grey ADV Mouse 1 (the square one) but as best I can tell they never actually existed.

@mg.man, what a coincidence…

So last week I won an auction on eBay for 5 big boxes of random cables and such. I didn’t actually mean to win.. I put in a bid of £5.. and it went for £1.86. It wasn’t that far a drive away, so went down there one morning and picked them up in my little Zoe! While I was in Nottingham we went...

I presume you don’t have another floppy drive you can swap it around with? Also is it the correct floppy drive for the IIci? As I recall the later manual inject models didn’t work properly with older Macs

Very nice! I’ve never had a 475 in my collection before, must get one someday!

Darn! I was hoping for a fully loaded unit!

That does make sense! I’d really love to be able to get a v2 AV personality card for my AIO one day.. particularly if it has the DVD decoders chip on it (did that exist?) and add the USB chip to it!

Do we know why they decided to leave all these lines out?

That’s what I mean, on the IIx (and SE/30) there was an issue with the way 32 bit addressing worked.. I wonder if that may be introducing some kind of incompatibility. You don’t happen to have access to a Mac that had the same ROM slot but had a 32 bit clean module do you?

Didn't the IIx have dirty 32 bit addressing?

Beautiful!

I have a prototype PowerBook 550c, and the logic board in it is a stock one from a 540c (I think from memory it’s a rev A.. I’m guessing when they made it they just took an existing 540c they had sitting around and replaced a few components), and the video works fine on that one.

Yep, my school was filled with loads of Mac Plus, Mac Classics, a smattering of PowerBooks and BBC Micros. Later on they added some Performa 630s and some 5400s eventually too. And yeah, Mac OS 8 was a bit hacky for it.. I remember buying a two button mouse for my Beige G3 266 MT and the...

Personally, I loved the trackpad from the moment I got to use a PowerBook 520c at school. It was SO much better than the trackballs in the PowerBook 145b units they’d had up until then.. possibly because they needed a cleaning.. but either way I was hooked. They got a bit better with later...

Ah that was it, I remembered there was a sticker!

Oh gosh, he looks so lovely.. I’m so sorry :(

The PowerBook 2300 stickers above the keyboard? If so yes, that PowerBook 2300 has been upgraded from an older one, probably a 280. The 2300 from the factory came with the trackpad rather than trackball, but the upgrade kit that Apple made available re-used the existing trackball mechanism...

Is it not a bit tall for that?

How.. odd. :/