They wanted $20 for it, but since they couldn't show me that it really worked, I offered $15. The machine itself had decent wear and tear, but still looked pretty good. Since the Yo-Yo that came with it looked practically mint, and I was all but certain that it was the exact same adapter the Clamshell iBooks used, I figured worst case would be that I gained a spare power adapter.
Once I got it home and plugged it in, it booted right up. Seems kinda cluttered with all manner of junk, which included old personal files... nothing identity theft-worthy or anything... just seemed frozen in time at the point where someone last made use of it. Not exactly what one would consider 'ready for sale' condition.
Has 7.6 installed, 12 megs of RAM reported, 750MB hard drive, CD-ROM module and a battery (though it seems the battery is either dead or in a coma right now... fair enough, considering the age of it). Seems the biggest bonus on this one is the installed software: MS Office 98 and Norton AntiVirus 5 were the first ones that caught my eye. It was practically packed to capacity, with something like maybe 20MB of free space (not much in terms of breathing room, but it did climb up past 150MB once I ditched a bunch of the former owner's personal documents).
At the moment, I'm thinking a full wipe and reinstall of the system software would be in order... but not before I can backup a whole bunch of the old-school System 7-Era programs that seem to fill this one's hard drive. With no floppy drive or Ethernet port to speak of (at least as far as I can tell), and that strange (25-pin?) SCSI port, I'm sorta stuck at the moment.
I'm going to have to research to see what I've really got here as far as what it's upgrade/expansion options are and what I can and will end up doing with it. Since I really have no specific knowledge of this era of laptops, I can't delve much further into things just yet. Time to hit the internet at large, I guess.
Once I got it home and plugged it in, it booted right up. Seems kinda cluttered with all manner of junk, which included old personal files... nothing identity theft-worthy or anything... just seemed frozen in time at the point where someone last made use of it. Not exactly what one would consider 'ready for sale' condition.
Has 7.6 installed, 12 megs of RAM reported, 750MB hard drive, CD-ROM module and a battery (though it seems the battery is either dead or in a coma right now... fair enough, considering the age of it). Seems the biggest bonus on this one is the installed software: MS Office 98 and Norton AntiVirus 5 were the first ones that caught my eye. It was practically packed to capacity, with something like maybe 20MB of free space (not much in terms of breathing room, but it did climb up past 150MB once I ditched a bunch of the former owner's personal documents).
At the moment, I'm thinking a full wipe and reinstall of the system software would be in order... but not before I can backup a whole bunch of the old-school System 7-Era programs that seem to fill this one's hard drive. With no floppy drive or Ethernet port to speak of (at least as far as I can tell), and that strange (25-pin?) SCSI port, I'm sorta stuck at the moment.
I'm going to have to research to see what I've really got here as far as what it's upgrade/expansion options are and what I can and will end up doing with it. Since I really have no specific knowledge of this era of laptops, I can't delve much further into things just yet. Time to hit the internet at large, I guess.
