Hello everyone . I am new here.. and I hope I am posting in the right place. I wanted to share with you my Roadside Rescue last night! I was driving down the road, looked over and seen there was a black case setting on the side of the road. So I stopped and grabbed it. I got it home and realized it was a Apple McIntosh Portable. Model M5120. It has the original case, battery, power cord, and some other type of cords that I'm sure are original and also it has some floppy disks that have not even been opened yet. I'm so excited but yet it doesn't turn on so I'm looking for an original manual. If anyone happens to know of where I could get one, I would surely appreciate the info or any advice. Thank you.
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Roadside Rescue
- Thread starter jamieusps1
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Congratulations and welcome! I started my collection by rescuing a IIfx from being recycled in April. Watch out, I now have another 9 machines and a couple printers 
Finding portables on the road.. that's a new one.
It takes a bit of a lot to get one working be warned. I have a summary of the faults on these on my website: https://www.macdat.net/macintosh/powerbook/portable/issues.html
It takes a bit of a lot to get one working be warned. I have a summary of the faults on these on my website: https://www.macdat.net/macintosh/powerbook/portable/issues.html
Congrats on the find & rescue!
And a homage to Jeff Raskin, conceiver of the Mac and its namer The McIntosh was his favourite variety of apple.
Folklore.org: Bicycle
Folklore.org: The Father Of The Macintosh
That may be so, but the breed of apple in question is called McIntosh.
McIntosh (apple) - Wikipedia
As an aside, the word Macintosh comes from Irish (aka Gaelic) mac an taoisigh which means 'son of the leader'.
The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is called the Taoiseach which is roughly pronounced teashock.
Indeed, and I was agreeing...I was just pleased with the computer outcome!That may be so, but the breed of apple in question is called McIntosh.
McIntosh (apple) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
As an aside, the word Macintosh comes from Irish (aka Gaelic) mac an taoisigh which means 'son of the leader'.
The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is called the Taoiseach which is roughly pronounced teashock.
Very interesting history, thanks for that!
That's actually how I found my Portable. I was walking down the street from my house and saw a black bag perched up against the garbage can. Saw the Apple logo and grabbed it. Even came with a 4MB RAM card and a modem!
