I also tried leaving it plugged in all night, but that didnt change anything…

The portable is kinda out of my knowledge area, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks ^_^

I tried this with my PowerBook 100, while it didn't work for me, it's generally a good idea to try it... because there might be a loose connection or something...

humm… now that you mention rebuilding it, I notice that the HD isnt connected… but it still doesnt show the ? mark disk…

That's Gamba. Great site. But yeah, nice find...Portables are sorta hard to find.

Problem is that the lead-acid batteries are almost never in good shape, and they cannot be reconditioned. Once they've been stored discharged for any significant length of time, they're pretty much permanently gone.

You will have to rebuild the battery to get this puppy to turn on. You can also disconnect the HD and use the portable in floppy-only mode.

In general, you need the battery UNLESS you disconnect the hard drive, just as I said earlier.

another thing I noticed when I got it loaded to the ? mark floppy, [and the pointer] is that I can't seem to move it pointer right very well, even when I use the little wheel with my finger, but it will go up, down, and left normally; but I wasn't sure how to fix the wheel thing… [It seems to be rubbing on the bottom?]

Well, Thanks ^_^

As to the HD, there is an internal scsi cable in the bay that holds the drive. The stock drive is an oddball with low-power terminations and a nonstandard connector. To use a newer drive, you have to make your own adapter or connector.

You clean the trackball the same as an ordinary mouse. Remove the ball retainer, take out the ball, and clean the rollers. Reassemble. Should work great afterwards.

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A PB100 adapter will NOT run a Portable that has a stock hard drive.

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Actually, I did that myself with my (Apple stickered 40SC, Conner) HDD equipped, NASA nameplated Portable and my PB100's power adapter.

Dunno for sure it was a stock drive, but it booted fine and ran just fine! I trust your judgement about it being marginal though, maybe I was overloading the adapter, but I never noticed any obvious overheating.

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Humm… I could try system 6… But I've Never used it before

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if you can, run 7.0 at least... I see no reason not to, IIRC, it came with 7.something anyway right?

have you tried an external mouse?

this is a regluarl 3.5" hdd right? dunno if you should need to find connectors on the motherboard...

but it doesnt have enough ram to start up sys 7.5 [only thing think I could find at the time]
*remembers where his 7.0 disks are*

but yea… it looks like the orig. HD with the weird connector…

and I dont have any system 6.0.x disks… [I tried to make some once, but I think I only had bad floppies then…]

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You'll be happy to see that the finder + system together take up less than 1MB. Can't ever get there with sys7!

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