Powerbook 5xx Rev C PCMCIA Adapter on ebay

[classic]

Anyone picked up on this?

As of this writing its up to $US43

I have a powerbook 520c and a wavelan silver card.

I am watching closely to see what it goes for.

Might even throw in a bid :-/

 

[Byrd]

The part does make what is a great portable Mac into a truly useful one I picked up a Rev C adapter off here some years back and it's wonderful for wireless and using a CF card as hard disk.

 

[classic]

Yeah, I'm drooling alright. Getting the 520c wireless would be way cool, but I think with

2.5 SCSI drives increasingly going the way of the dinosaur,

a cf card to boot from would greatly extend the life of the powerbook 520c a great deal.

Have you tried this? Will it work?

 

[Byrd]

Yes, I can confirm that it will boot up off a generic PCMCIA CF card adapter + various sizes of cards (biggest I tried was 2GB I think). Faster in some ways, not in others.

 

[theos911]

Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality?

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality?

Only the rev C can use WiFi cards.

 

[theos911]

Is there an easy way to check what revision it is?

So, revision C's are the only ones that can be configured as a network interface?

 

[classic]

I bid $US55 but it went for $US127! Too much for me.. :-(

 

[blackbird]

There's been two of these on ebay the last month. The other one went for close to $150.00. They are getting harder and harder to find so people are bidding up on these.

 

[Strimkind]

I'd like to know what tree they get the money from to bid that high.