Hello 68kmla community,
4-5 years ago I was given an ancient powerbook 145b by a relative but it did not have the powercord. I've recently purchased a power cord and started fiddling around with it some.
The system had the checkerboard markings on half of the screen and the blinking floppy icon on the working segment. I wound up finding another powerbook 145 and between a mixing of the two I have one that boots up from floppies just fine.
My only remaining issue (aside from not being very well versed in the world of mac) is trying to get the hard drive to work. One system came with an 80MB drive that doesn't spin at all, the other had a 40MB which spins up and doesn't sound bad (no clicking or grinding) but when I use the disk utility programs (patched versions were tried too) they don't detect the hard drive. I used some scsi probing program and it also did not detect anything.
While I would probably just say the drive's controller is shot or something like that I was wondering if I could get a second opinion on the matter. I've tried both hard drive cables and it behaves the same on both. I'd like to try to get the system up and running to learn some classic apple computing but am not sure if I want to spend $50 on a 240MB hard drive (there may or may not be other stores that I have missed which would carry parts for these oldies in stock).
4-5 years ago I was given an ancient powerbook 145b by a relative but it did not have the powercord. I've recently purchased a power cord and started fiddling around with it some.
The system had the checkerboard markings on half of the screen and the blinking floppy icon on the working segment. I wound up finding another powerbook 145 and between a mixing of the two I have one that boots up from floppies just fine.
My only remaining issue (aside from not being very well versed in the world of mac) is trying to get the hard drive to work. One system came with an 80MB drive that doesn't spin at all, the other had a 40MB which spins up and doesn't sound bad (no clicking or grinding) but when I use the disk utility programs (patched versions were tried too) they don't detect the hard drive. I used some scsi probing program and it also did not detect anything.
While I would probably just say the drive's controller is shot or something like that I was wondering if I could get a second opinion on the matter. I've tried both hard drive cables and it behaves the same on both. I'd like to try to get the system up and running to learn some classic apple computing but am not sure if I want to spend $50 on a 240MB hard drive (there may or may not be other stores that I have missed which would carry parts for these oldies in stock).
