Re: Your first PowerBook
So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook? t'wos a PowerBook 150, bought for my girlfriend to write her great novel on. i then got a 540c off eBay... the PB150 then started playing up, firstly a munted disk drive and then trackball problems, so she got the 540c. I then got a Newton 2100MP and have been happy ever since... it does everything the PB does and more! (well, kind of...) Ben. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
On 2002-12-10 05:43, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what was your first PowerBook? My first was a PowerBook 100. 4 MB RAM, 20 MB HD, 16 MHz 68LC000. Ah, those were the days. Still have it, like I still have all my Macs and other computers. Never been one to throw away a computer. Last count, I had over 45 systems. :-) The PB100 was followed by a 540C, then a 1400C/166 which I upgraded to a G3/333. Then a second-hand 1400C/133 bought as a spare, and now I use an iBook 600MHz (Rage graphics). I also have an iBook SE (Key Lime -- YAY!) that my girlfriend uses. Oh, and a Mac Portable, as part of the collection. The rest are all either desktop machines or non-Macs. ,xtG .tsooJ -- Joost van de Griek http://www.jvdg.net/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
Mine was a used 145, which I did a lot of work on. I rebuilt the battery, built another battery pack to plug in (still have no software to get rid of the damn warning messages), maxed the RAM (hahaha 8MB), jammed in an 250MB IBM HD, and replaced the modem board. Man, it rocks, I use it all the time: good apps, I LOVE the trackball, I love it's solid feel, I love that vintage of software - powerful apps with less than 1 MB footprints (kids today can't believe it, and yet, this was only one decade ago). As Joost said, those were the days :) m -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
On 2002-12-10 05:43, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what was your first PowerBook? A PB170 that still sits in a place of honour on our phone table. I occasionally fire it up for no other reason than to smile and to know it still works and could easily do a great deal of work if needed. I bought it loaded with maxed RAM and the hottest internal modem available then, running at a blazing, in them days, 14.4 A few months ago I saw the receipt, which I kept for the archives, egads, I think I payed several thousand CND for it -- and that was a good price. My wife won't let it be sold, which I actually contemplated at one point. I have a feeling it'll go in the coffin with me :-) Prior to THE book I was already using desktop Macs, but since the PB170 only PowerBooks, which have since served as my primary computer. Currently a 1400c and a 1400cs does it for me and for my wife. Cheers, Rick -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
Hi some people are just lucky i guess g3 My first powerbook was two to be exact i got a 5300c and a 2300c buy swapping a P3 laptop both needed work and i used them alot at first then i built up my collection bit by bit. The best powerbook that i have owned was the 550c that i had but i sold that to a friend who had the money for the upgrades it could use and i just recently got a powerbook 190 cs to keep with the 5300 feel as i really like that book (always on the look out for a 5300c./ce) but my main is a 3400 always looking for a kanga board also (hint). i also always keep a duo my current is a 230. Victoria. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 12:39 PM, Rick McCutcheon wrote: On 2002-12-10 05:43, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what was your first PowerBook? A PB170 that still sits in a place of honour on our phone table. [snip] Cheers, Rick Just joined the list, as I acquired a PB170 on Saturday via the Swap list. It's my first portable computer (other than a Handspring Visor) and I'm planning on installing Linux on it (or at least attempting it) so I can continue my adventures in learning programming on the road, as they say. It shares a 400MB SCSI hard drive with my SE/30 (acquired in the same Swap) and will soon be semi-online via the SE/30. I'll be posting soon with the results of the Linux experiment - the 170 isn't on the list of supported systems, but it's worth a try... -Leigh -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
It was a semi-functioning 5300cs bought off eBay in a fit of ignorant enthusiasm. The seller listed its defects but also claimed to know very little about Macs so I assumed (after years of jollying along a series of yard sale desktop Macs) that getting it going would be no great trick. This cheery assumption was wrong, but the episode taught me a lot, and not at much expense either, especially after I eventually found a Swap Lister who wanted it for parts. The 5300c that replaced it (also eBay) now does everything it's asked -- thanks to lessons learned from the first PB, and also to lots of help from various members of this list. Best, Victoria -- Loyalty to the country always, loyalty to the government when it deserves it. Samuel Clemens -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
Hmm. I may give that a try as well - the only two applications I need to run on it are gcc and emacs, so if they work I'm all set. -Leigh On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leigh Honeywell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll be posting soon with the results of the Linux experiment - the 170 isn't on the list of supported systems, but it's worth a try... It's on NetBSD's list, if you're not too attached to Linux. It looks as though they even got the X-Window system to work! The PB170 I had was my first, and so far the only one with an FPU (Duo 230, 250, and PB 540C are the others). X-lisp-Stat (a freely available statistics package) ran pretty well. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
Awww... That's such as sweet idea! My very first PowerBook... it's the 170 that sits in a place of honor in our dining room. That thing just plain rocks, and we used it for all sorts of things before I got the 1400cs, mostly writing projects, but games too. I can't give it up. I have a friend who has a 180 that he just can't part with tho he's graduated to a fast li'l G4 laptop now... He wrote lots and lots of his first works, screenplays, etc. on that machine and can't bear to part with it. I feel the same way. My 170 is the only machine in the house that will run ShufflePuck Cafe with sound and I love the trackball on it (wish sometimes the 1400 had that instead of the pad). Oh, memories... =-) Andrew Kershaw wrote: I just read a fun thread over on applefritter about people's first 68k Mac... So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook? The first PowerBook I touched was a friend's 520c. We were able to get it fixed up to help her connect to the Net while she was in Korea, but she decided to get an HP laptop instead. Despite this, we're still friends. ;-) Still, she's keeping it in case her HP breaks. (Where's my hammer?) The first PowerBook I ever owned was my (now) brother-in-law's busted 1400cs/117, which I turned into a 1400c+G3/333, 60MB RAM, OS 9.1 with Ethernet, 56K modem and external video. He's not jealous because he upgraded to an iceBook. -- - personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Drive defensively ... buy a tank. -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
At 09:43 PM 12/9/2002 -0700, you wrote: I just read a fun thread over on applefritter about people's first 68k Mac... So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook? Mine was a Powerbook Duo 210. Which didn't work, though I owned it. I then bought two 230 and another 210 board trying to fix it, all generating the same problem. In the end I ended up with a 280c, which was the first functional Powerbook I've ever owned :) Still use it today, as my main laptop. Love the thing. Still get complimented on it when I'm out with it, people don't believe you can get them on eBay for $20-40 ;) I even get an hour and a half or so battery life out of it. One of these days I need to get my rebuilt battery working again, if the cells are at all good anymore. Broke a wire and never got around to getting ti working again. Was getting 4 hours out of it. Scott Holder -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Your first PowerBook
My first book was a 5300cs, which incidentally was the first computer I ever bought for myself, at the ripe old age of 14 :) After 3 long and arduous years, I have migrated to a 2300c and now a 1400c/G3 333MHz that I'm ever so happy with. But I must find myself a nice 5300 series to bring back that nostalgia... Majid From: Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:03:20 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) Subject: Re: Your first PowerBook So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook? The first PowerBook I touched was a friend's 520c. We were able to get it fixed up to help her connect to the Net while she was in Korea, but she decided to get an HP laptop instead. Despite this, we're still friends. ;-) Still, she's keeping it in case her HP breaks. (Where's my hammer?) The first PowerBook I ever owned was my (now) brother-in-law's busted 1400cs/117, which I turned into a 1400c+G3/333, 60MB RAM, OS 9.1 with Ethernet, 56K modem and external video. He's not jealous because he upgraded to an iceBook. -- - personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Drive defensively ... buy a tank. -- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
