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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
that
nostalgia...
Majid
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Subject: Re: Your first PowerBook
So in the same vein, what was your first PowerBook?
The first PowerBook I
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