Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... I found my Wallstreet in a pawn shop. It was $300 with a nice carrying case, the video adaptor, charger, and a battery that holds a good charge. And a working PRAM battery. They wanted $350, but we got it at $300 with a nifty pool cue. Check the pawn shops. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
--- Stephen Passmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... LMAO! Best, David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
You mean, even I can write a bad sentence? Shocked, I am. Erm,.. you used a pool cue to get the price down to $300?!? You're meant to be bartering not battering... I found my Wallstreet in a pawn shop. It was $300 with a nice carrying case, the video adaptor, charger, and a battery that holds a good charge. And a working PRAM battery. They wanted $350, but we got it at $300 with a nifty pool cue. Check the pawn shops. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
At 10:47 PM -0500 2/1/04, Hugo Trottier wrote: Jocelyn here are my 2 cents; You could always get the serial number and go yourself to a Mac Resellers, get it check 1) To make certain that it is not stolen good (in that case no Apple resellers will repair it) 2) To know exactly it's age and who was the original owner. If the sellers does seems to eager to get his $$$ be careful, it's always better to walk away with your $$ than a Mac that is going to become a headache over time and that will end up costing 2 or 3 times as much just in parts. Yeah, I'd be nervous if the seller is in such a hurry. On 1-Feb-04, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. Sometimes the PRAM battery runs down and won't power the PRAM/clock. In some cases the battery will recharge if the computer is left plugged in overnight. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. It does have a PRAM battery. It's a rechargeable battery but it can eventually fail. It's harder to replace than a PRAM battery on a desktop machine. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. It's a standard PowerPook SCSI port. The missing pin is normal. Adapters with all the pins let you attach the Powerbook to another computer as a disk drive. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. ZIP disk drive chatter can be a bad drive or a bad disk, it's actually sign of one of several problems. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. Batteries run somewhere around $180 IIRC. Try Battery Technologies Inc. (http://www.batterytech.com maybe). I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Is he giving you the original disks along with any required serial numbers or just including the installed software on the disk? Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Wallstreets are good machines, I'm typing this on one upgraded to 40Gb HD, 320Mb RAM running OS x.2.8. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:36:02 EST Subject: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Apple laptops have PRAM batteries, so yes this one is probably dead. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. The standard Powerbook SCSI adapter has only 29 pins. A 30-pin adapter would be used for setting up the 'book in SCSI Disk Mode. Some adapters have a switch to allow both uses. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. Be prepared for sticker shock, as batteries are close to $150. http://www.batterytech.com/ I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. Wallstreets don't go for that much these days. eBay is probably a better indicator of value now. If you're looking for something mobile, know that you'll be spending another couple hundred right away to get the batteries replaced. If you're just looking for something to put on a desktop, you can leave it plugged in and not worry about the batteries for a while. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn --- JSH TiBook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
I found my Wallstreet in a pawn shop. It was $300 with a nice carrying case, the video adaptor, charger, and a battery that holds a good charge. And a working PRAM battery. They wanted $350, but we got it at $300 with a nifty pool cue. Check the pawn shops. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question - G-Books Digest #1580
Rodney, the guy did agree to meet me at an Apple reseller to have a diagnostic done on the Wallstreet he is selling. . After I found out how much it would cost to replace the battery and pram battery, it just wasn't making much financial sense to buy it. After all was said and done, it would cost almost as much as an iBook (last season's model at $699). I was only wanting to spend around $300 anyway right now. Jocelyn -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Jocelyn here are my 2 cents; You could always get the serial number and go yourself to a Mac Resellers, get it check 1) To make certain that it is not stolen good (in that case no Apple resellers will repair it) 2) To know exactly it's age and who was the original owner. If the sellers does seems to eager to get his $$$ be careful, it's always better to walk away with your $$ than a Mac that is going to become a headache over time and that will end up costing 2 or 3 times as much just in parts. Good Luck Hugo Trottier GoMac Canada On 1-Feb-04, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
on 01/02/04 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I test drove the Wall street PowerBook that is for sale for $200 today. The date and time is not holding, so I assume it needs a Pram battery. The guy told me laptop don't have a PRAM battery. Is that true? If it does have a PRAM battery, I need a webpage for PRAM batteries with prices. Also, it has a SCSI adapter since the SCSI port on the Wall street is nonstandard. His adapter looks like a pin is missing. He said it came looking like that. He did not have a SCSI peripheral to demo the adapter. When he did a demo on the internal zip drive, he just opened the ZIP Tools disc window and commented on the loud sound of the ZIP drive. It sounds like my old ZIP, but I'm remembering that some ZIPs were recalled due to chatter problem and for ruining zip discs. I don't know if he had a recalled zip drive. Then, when he unplugged the laptop from the wall, it died. He finally confessed that the battery was not holding a charge. So I need a website for a battery and the price. I went to the webpage that a nice list person sent me today. It says that this model usually goes for $500- $700. So, I'm a little nervous about the low price. I asked him to meet me at a Mac place to have it checked over next week. I have a gift certificate to that store from my User group. I told him I'd apply my $50 gift cert toward the inspection of the laptop. Maybe that was too generous on my part. He is giving me several licensed software programs that I need, but I need to iron out these other issues. He seemed a bit too attached to receiving the $200 right away. Any help and info regarding these issues would me appreciated. Wow, this is like buying a used car. Jocelyn The Wallstreet does have a rechargeable PRAM battery. If the main battery is dead, then it may explains why the PRAM is dead. I think you need a good battery in order for the PRAM to recharge, but I'm not 100% sure. IIRC, the SCSI pin is normal. There are 30 pins on the Wallstreet while on regular cables, it's 29 pins. Again, this is off memory, so I could be wrong. Wallstreet don't fetch $500-$700. Do a search on eBay for completed items. They go from around $200 to $400 depending on the condition and the accessories that come with it. For a battery, there is laptops-battery.com. They have Wallstreet batteries with higher capacity cells for $104: http://www.laptops-battery.com/catalog/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/3/ products_id/5403 -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet, pram battery, and other battery question
Thanks all you replied to my inquiry. Your info and advice was very helpful. Jocelyn -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
