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SiliconValleyPirate
Junior Member
United Kingdom
273 Posts |
 Posted - 25 Apr 2002 : 17:36:39
I have aquired (free no less) an original Mac Portable (luggable more like!!) during a buying spree. It has a dead hard disk and a dead battery set. I know I can get the L/A battery rebuilt and the backup battery is also no problem. The hard disk however is not gonna be easy to replace. It has a nonm-standard connector and cabling arrangement. I think, from the layout of the logic board, that theere was als oa dual floppy model, am I right? If so, is it easier to find a second floppy and use that instead, rplaceing the bezel with a floppy bezel?--
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 25 Apr 2002 : 18:35:18
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I have aquired (free no less) an original Mac Portable (luggable more like!!) during a buying spree. It has a dead hard disk and a dead battery set. I know I can get the L/A battery rebuilt and the backup battery is also no problem. The hard disk however is not gonna be easy to replace. It has a nonm-standard connector and cabling arrangement. I think, from the layout of the logic board, that theere was als oa dual floppy model, am I right? If so, is it easier to find a second floppy and use that instead, rplaceing the bezel with a floppy bezel?
that's what "guide to the macintosh family hardware" (second edition) says! either or! go for it!jt  ™. . 
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 08:01:30
The mac portable actually uses standard, 3.5", low-profile (1" high) 50-pin SCSI drives. They're a whole lot easier to come by than 2.5" SCSI drives!  666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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Alien
Junior Member
Netherlands
269 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 09:54:11
Standard in size, but not in connection!Some weird Connor drive was used, with a very unorthodox connector on it. However, it is possible to make an adapter cable that'll allow a standard SCSI HD to be used. Look around on the web and you'll find instructions, and there's even some people selling them if you don't feel you're up to making one yourself. ,xtG
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 10:07:43
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However, it is possible to make an adapter cable that'll allow a standard SCSI HD to be used.
Ohh yeah, forgot about that!  666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2002 : 11:40:42
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However, it is possible to make an adapter cable that'll allow a standard SCSI HD to be used.
Ohh yeah, forgot about that!
dangit! i thought i was gonna get to play with my own portable, fedex brought my first two toyboxes from eBay just now, the first one was the Laser 128, which is cool, but not THAT cool.the second one was the gaggle of cables-joysticks-terminators-video adapters+mice, what a letdown!  no MongoBook! the killer is, normally i'd be THRILLED with that load of peripherals and infracture, two flights of fancy felled with one projectile! bummer! jt ™. .
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2002 : 10:15:36
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Standard in size, but not in connection!Some weird Connor drive was used, with a very unorthodox connector on it. However, it is possible to make an adapter cable that'll allow a standard SCSI HD to be used. Look around on the web and you'll find instructions, and there's even some people selling them if you don't feel you're up to making one yourself.
yah! battery voodoo to!
http://www.mzdt.fsnet.co.uk/hackplus/portablefaq.txti LOVE my new (ostensibly ) portable toy! another one should be arriving soon! maybe that one'll be backlit! jt ™. .
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