Scored a PB180 via CL

[4seasonphoto]

My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--oh well!). Current plan is to SSD it and use it as a replacement for the Mac Portable which I will finally be listing on That Auction Site.

http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/4789137409.html

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

I like the 180.

Probably because I have one, but it's still a nice machine.

What SSD do you plan to use?

 

[Elfen]

Congrats on the score! The PB180 is one that has an IDE port on it?

And like WhiteFalcon asked, what name brand/kind SSD are you putting in?

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

180 is still SCSI, the 190 and 150 had IDE I believe.

 

[Macdrone]

The 150 was an oddball and had ide also.

 

[4seasonphoto]

Thanks guys, I plan on trying the SCSI/Compact Flash SSD sold by eBay member "Artmix".

 

[CelGen]

180's are great. Their LCD is nice, they have a lot of I/O and internally they have a decent amount of expansion and a fast CPU.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Let us know how that adapter works, I'd be interested in it for mine.

 

[4seasonphoto]

180 has arrived, and what a 180 it is: It looks almost new! No yellowing, no shiny spots on the keyboard, no fossilized muffin crumbs or cat hair. There's one case crack around the modem slot, but a little bit of plastic welding should make it vanish. Has a Global Village modem, 8 megabytes of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive.

I was going to re-cell the battery pack, but on second thought decided that I'd be better off just getting a working NIMH pack for $43, which is probably less than I'd pay for a bunch of nicads. Less messy too. Maybe if it were an OEM Apple part, but it's just some generic 3rd party item.

Opening it up revealed no nasty surprises: plastics look great there too. Needed to clean up the nicad ooze which fortunately didn't touch the electronics. While I was at it, I removed the UL2320 PRAM battery and will see if I can pick up another this weekend.

Artmix SSD is on it's way!

 

[techknight]

Nice! Hopefully that one doesnt have the dreaded tunnelvision. 

Plus that battery I believe is 3rd party/aftermarket. 

On my 180, I removed the battery but kept the battery door. That way there wasnt a gaping hole. With bbrauns new localtalk/ethernet solution, I may re-purpose the battery bay to shoehorn a localtalk to ethernet/wifi bridge. 

 

[4seasonphoto]

With bbrauns new localtalk/ethernet solution, I may re-purpose the battery bay to shoehorn a localtalk to ethernet/wifi bridge. 

Got a link? I saw something about a PB540 wifi solution, but that assumes the presence of an AAUI connector.

I did find his site and (ouch) if I had known he had a SCSI->SD solution, I might've gone that route instead of the Artmix CF adapter.

 

[techknight]

Its over at mac68k.info in the hardware thread.

Its still in alpha development stage and requires a beaglebone black.

 

[RickNel]

Nice - I have one, but yours is better condition. Depending how yours has been used/stored, you might find some of the electrolytic caps in the LCD display are nearing end of life and need replacing. I got a set of caps for mine, but the replacement job is not yet top of my to-do list. 

Rick

 

[4seasonphoto]

Its over at mac68k.info in the hardware thread.

Found it thanks. Beaglebone must have more computing horsepower than the entire vintage Mac it's supporting!

 

[4seasonphoto]

Nice - I have one, but yours is better condition. Depending how yours has been used/stored, you might find some of the electrolytic caps in the LCD display are nearing end of life and need replacing. I got a set of caps for mine, but the replacement job is not yet top of my to-do list. 

I haven't opened the screen frame yet, but perhaps I should. I did check the two small aluminum electrolytics on the inverter board, but both checked out okay with low ESR.

 

[4seasonphoto]

RickNel, does your 180 have aluminum electrolytic caps in the LCD housing? I had a look at mine, and didn't see a single one, only tantalum chip capacitors, and all of those check out with good ESR values. In fact, the only 2 aluminum cans in the whole computer seem to be on the inverter board.

 

[Macdrone]

I have yet to pull my 180 apart but all the others do in the 1xx series. Maybe not aluminum but leaky caps for sure. Like 9 2.2uf and a couple bigger ones. My 160 I'm waiting for caps from mouser now before it gets done.

 

[Juror22]

I just took apart a 150 (thanks letni) and it has a different screen setup from the others (kinda like an ibook in layout, with the backlight connector on the side of the screen) the caps look like tantalums in there too.

 

[techknight]

Found it thanks. Beaglebone must have more computing horsepower than the entire vintage Mac it's supporting!

probably 50 times more. Just to be the slave to a slower machine. muaahahahaa.