Powerbook 180! Savers again

[Bunsen]

The local Savers (Value Village) coughed up a nice looking Powerbook 180 for $14.99 (about US$11) - untested and w/o PS. I'm sure I can dig up a PS from around here somewhere. Test results to follow.

This is my first 1xx series 'book. There's a lot to be said for collecting laptops, space-wise.

 

[Bunsen]

By the way, there's a pair of ADB keyboards there - the Apple Extended II and one of those miniature ones. Buried under the keyboard stack on the rear shelves, Coburg store.

 

[MacMan]

Nicely done! "Savers" in the UK is a chain of stores that sells cheap cosmetics and detergents. Recently most of their stores have changed to "Superdrug" which is the same idea but with slightly higher prices. It would be far more interesting if they were the kind of shops that sold old Apple bits instead!

 

[Bunsen]

This is the "Savers" I'm referring to.

 

[MacMan]

Sounds like a good chain, it just amused me a bit that it had the same name as a completely different chain here. Unfortunately "thrift stores" here tend to be in the form of "charity shops" which often don't sell anything very good. Most of them are not allowed to sell electrical items due to "health and safety" rules.

I agree with collecting laptops in terms of space! I've got a 145b, a 520c, a 1400 and a 2300 and they all fit inside my travelling trunk. It'd be very difficult to carry 4 desktops about like that!

 

[The Macster]

There's a lot to be said for collecting laptops, space-wise.

Yes, I like laptop Macs too - the downsides are that they're much harder to find though (I can't even find anything with a colour screen, let alone a PowerPC!), as well as being harder/impossible to upgrade or repair.

 

[Quadraman]

You should try checking pawn brokers, too. If they have a particularly old machine that has been sitting awhile, they might be open to an offer below the ticketed price just to move it out and free up some cash. Those guys make money by buying and selling, not buying and letting it sit. You would think those guys would know better than to buy items that depreciate quickly, though.

 

[MacMan]

The only old Mac I have ever seen for sale in any commerical sense is at an auction house where there was a box of computer bits including an LC475 and caddy-loading CD ROM drive (complete with caddy). However I have two 475's so I decided to let it go!

Any luck getting the PowerBook 180 up and running yet Bunsen?