Some really good goodies!

[superpantoufle]

Great week in conquests for yours truly:

- two Newton: a MP 120 and a MP 2000 upgraded to 2100. Both work perfectly! The 120 lacks its stylus and is in German. I live in Switzerland, and German is a national language. I personnaly speak french, too bad I didn't think of asking the seller before. It came in a leather case, with a spare battery (as dead as the original) and its power brick. The 2000 has its stylus, and came in a big leather case with lot of room for flash cards, an 8 Mb and a 32 Mb cards, a modem, its power brick, the original 2000 CD and the 2100 upgrade CD, and the manuals. I paid around $ 120.- for both together. It wasn't cheap, but in my opinion it was worth it, since Newtons are scarce around here.

- a dead PowerBook 100. The seller said it was completely dead and wouldn't make any noise when powered on, but the power brick that came with was that of a StyleWriter. No wonder why it didn't work…  : When plugged in with my other PowerBook 100's power brick, it chmied, but the screen seems not to work, and the hard drive is stuck. I'll take the drive out and verify the screen wiring when I get some time, but I may re-sell that PowerBook as is soon. What is really cool and why I bought it in the first place, is because it has the external floppy drive. My working 100 lacks that drive, and in my opinion getting a drive alone would have been worth the $ 20.- I spent. And the spare parts are bonus!

- an internal Zip 100 drive for my Wallstreet. Not really useful, but for $ 10.- I couldn't resist to bid.

- a 15'' LCD Apple StudioDisplay. I haven't received this one yet, but it soon will complete my PowerMac G4 Cube setup as my main OS 9 machine.

Now, the next challenge is to free some time to play with my collection. I haven't touched it in weeks… :-/

 

[agg23]

Now, the next challenge is to free some time to play with my collection. I haven't touched it in weeks… :-/

What about Christmas time (etc.. right now!!! )

Nice finds especially the PB 100.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Ah yes, Sony's BabyPB! The progenitor of every laptop extant! The Apple PB100 series and every successful/surviving design copied its features and styling. It was the prototypical sub-notebook/NetBook, the first 'Book to introduce SCSI Disk Mode and all of this stemmed from an Apple license limited to merely repackaging the Luggable!

A masterpiece! [] ]'>

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

I'll Talk french as you also talk it

Alors que WOW est un bien y trouver. Je voudrais pouvoir de Got cela, mais wow that guy a utilisé la brique StyleWriter Power. Il faut qu'il ne soit pas en mesure de lire ce qu'il dit. C'est Tho drôle et heureux que vous ayez obtenu le FFD

for all of the english people out there

So wow that is a good find there. I wish I could of got that, But wow that guy was using the StyleWriter Power brick. He must of not able to read what it said. That is funny tho and glad you got the FFD

 

[LCGuy]

So wow that is a good find there. I wish I could of got that, But wow that guy was using the StyleWriter Power brick. He must of not able to read what it said. That is funny tho and glad you got the FFD

I wouldn't be surprised...some people just either don't know, or don't pay any attention. I remember when I got my LC630 back in 2001, I was waiting at a bus stop with it, and some lady asked me if it was a VCR. :lol:

 

[Scott Baret]

So wow that is a good find there. I wish I could of got that, But wow that guy was using the StyleWriter Power brick. He must of not able to read what it said. That is funny tho and glad you got the FFD

I wouldn't be surprised...some people just either don't know, or don't pay any attention. I remember when I got my LC630 back in 2001, I was waiting at a bus stop with it, and some lady asked me if it was a VCR. :lol:

When I got an SE many years ago, my grandmother thought it was an antique Magnavox television when she first saw it.

This past year, I used my 180c as a note-taking machine in a classroom I was observing. The students thought it was one of those toy laptops that can be purchased at a toy store. They were surprised to find out that it was a former top-of-the-line machine that was twice their age!

Nice pickups, by the way. The PB100 floppy drive is definitely nice. Is there a way to change language settings on the Newton like there is on the iPods? (My mom's new iPod Touch came from the factory with Danish as its language default for some reason but that was easily changed).

 

[superpantoufle]

Is there a way to change language settings on the Newton like there is on the iPods? (My mom's new iPod Touch came from the factory with Danish as its language default for some reason but that was easily changed).

I asked that question in the Newton section, and it seems it isn't possible without switching the socketed ROM's from a french or english Newton. Those two were hard enough to find and expensive, so obviously I won't try to find another one just for parts. Still, I learned german for about ten years in school, so that won't be a huge problem!