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Just picked up a PowerBook 180c to go with my grayscale 180.  Chassis is in generally good condition - someone had done a hinge repair in the past that left a couple exposed screws visible on the exterior top lid, but they are very small and well done. Only 4 MB RAM, and came with System...

I got in touch with someone who has a web page about the DaynaFile - he finally got back from vacation and sent me the specs - it needs both 5V and 12V, but apparently it uses a power brick that was relatively common with electronics of the late '80s, so I should be able to find one reasonably...

Yeah, and it's the kind that can enable SCSI Disk Mode. I have quite a few HDI-to-xyz adapters (25-pin, 50-pin, 68-pin, even a couple custom ones for specific old devices,) but this is only my second SCSI Disk Mode-capable one.

On my PowerBook G3, fn-F7 is marked "insert", and fn-F8 is marked 'delete', they work in VirtualPC for me, I don't know if they are valid on an iBook, too, though.

Yeah, I honestly didn't expect to win it - all the other Wallstreets with floppy drives were going for FAR more.  (The $50 shipping may have had something to do with this one not going for as much, but it was well-packed, and included a lot of accessories in the box, for that $50 shipping...

In the couple minutes it was booted, I could tell that the hard drive had a fresh install of Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.2.  No personal files or third-party applications obviously present. Too bad, I don't know where I'm going to get drivers for the CapSure card. Edit: Of course, Macintosh...

Saw a PowerBook G3 listed for relatively cheap, $25 minimum bid, so I put it on my watch list.  With 4 days to go, it had two bids, up to $30.  I figured I'd bid $31 on a lark, just to see if I could get it. What do you know - I did! Pretty pedestrian system: PowerBook G3, 14.1" screen, 266...

Sounds like a perfectly fine plan to me.  I'll probably be interested enough to pick one up, I traded away my tangerine iBook a few years ago, wouldn't mind picking another one up.

Yup, both of mine are Sonys.

Decided to throw an http server on my SE/30 to go with the local-only AppleTalk server.  Works fine internally, but my stupid router doesn't seem to obey the port forwarding entry...  I'm using Comcast's Arris modem/phone adapter as my router, and it claimed to enter it correctly the first time...

Yup, need to fix the power supply. It booted fine when posted last, but just tried it again, and apparently getting some juice flowing through it last time was all it could take - the PSU has given up the ghost.

Or, if you really want to stock up... $1.80 each with free shipping on orders over $50. Yeah, if you have a big collection, 28 of these puppies would hit your $50 mark for free shipping.

Also, everything I can find says the entire 190/5300 line, plus the 2300c, came out on the same day, August 28, 1995. (At the MacWorld Boston Expo.)  And from a MacWorld review, it looks like all of the PPC models hit the street on September 11, 1995. (The '040 PB190 series was delayed until...

I've gotten one "so yellowed it was brown" device - it was mostly surface soot, some scrubbing with a damp rag with a little soap got it back to "ready for Retr0brite" status, at least.

Yeah, 2300c is only 640x480, with the option to drop to 640x400 for 16-bit "Thousands" color mode.  The 5300ce was the first 800x600 Mac laptop, and the only one of that "era" until the 1400 came out.

I've been really tempted to send in some of my vintage "reply cards"...  Like the one at the back of my IBM-branded Kings Quest, so I can get replacement disks.

I think the biggest problem with an 8-track recorder would be the lack of an easily-definable "beginning" to declare as time mark 0. With other tape types, you just rewind until you're at the beginning. With 8-Track''s "infinite loop" mechanism (however appropriate for Apple,) you would have to...

That CRT's image is "from factory." The plastics on it are horrendous, though!

The variation between my three is insane. The 280c has a good-feeling keyboard, the 230 is a bit spongy and the 2300c is just TERRIBLE. Both spongy and difficult to trigger at the same time.

Okay, one of them isn't a 68k, but two are, so I figured it belonged here rather than the PPC 'books section.  (Plus, the Duo 2300c is basically just a 68k logic board with a PowerPC stuffed on it.) Got all three cleaned up, got all my docks lined up, so decided it was a good opportunity to...