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The year is 1991, it was either a car or Macintosh PowerBook, so here’s me taking the metro with the latter.

(Haha, new #MARCHintosh acquisition! PowerBook 145B, with an internement display, TBD, but it was $50, very pristine and en canadien français).

My first 68k PowerBook!

#VintageApple #VintageMac #PowerBook #RetroComputing

POV looking down down at a PowerBook 145B in a carry case, itself on a lap. The background is the Montréal Métro
#retrocomputing #vintagemac #vintageapple #MARCHintosh #powerbook

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: An Apple PowerBook Duo AC adaptor, model no AA19200, Apple model no M2693 with battery charger that clips to the side, model no M1812 with matching grounded power cord. There is a small crack in the case next to where the lower cord hook folds out. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerBook
A dark grey AC adaptor with cord coiled around two hooks that fold out of the left side, next to the six-color Apple logo. Clipped to the right side if a battery charger with a button to unlatch it from the AC adaptor and two battery sockets. Five gold contacts are visible in each socket and an LED at the base. Next to it on the floor is a coiled power cable of the same color with a grounded North American plug on one end and an IEC plug on the other.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #powerbook #vintagecomputers

#Free to a good home: A PowerBook Duo 2300. There's an issue with a strip of the screen, which went away a few minutes after booting. I don't remember it having that issue back when I stopped using it. 🤔 Includes an AC adaptor and PowerBook grey grounded power cable. The modem cover has snapped off and a piece of duct tape has been applied to keep the dust out. :apple_inc:
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#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerBook
A grey Apple PowerBook Duo 2300 on a wood floor, showing the Welcome to Macintosh dialog. There is a vertical strip of the display which is too dark, running the width of "to Macintos." It has an ANSI keyboard and PowerPC is printed next to the power button. There is a gap to the left of the trackpad button where the battery would be.
A PowerBook Duo 2300 on a wood floor showing a blue desktop pattern and Yuri HD with an icon of a Duo 2300. A rectangular part of the display to the right of the Special menu is darker than it should be.
A closed PowerBook Duo on a wood floor without the battery, leaving a gap between the corner of the case and the trackpad button. A small rectangle of dust adhered to old adhesive is visible in the corner to the right of the Apple logo.
The back of a PowerBook Duo on a wood floor, showing the closed docking port cover, barrel jack, power button, a piece of grey duct tape over the modem (the cover/leg is broken off), and the mini-DIN serial port with its leg/cover folded down to angle the laptop away from the floor.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #powerbook #vintagecomputers

@riley @shyra uhm did #apple manufacture disks with a custom firmware? That would be very typical...
BTW, #bluescsi is reported as fully compatible with my #powerbook 170, so I'd expect it to Just Work™...
github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSC…

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A small SCSI device based on stm32. Contribute to erichelgeson/BlueSCSI development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#apple #BlueSCSI #powerbook @Riley S. Faelan @Shyra “Tech Ambrosia”

New model: #PowerBook 5xx HDD caddy, with both an HDD and a #BlueSCSI variant.

github.com/mmuman/cad-retro-pa…

Might still need some tweaks (not yet sure for screw hole diameter)

#Mac68k #3DPrinting

A BlueSCSI being held by some blue 3D-printed plastic bracket under the keyboard of a PowerBook 520c.

cad-retro-parts/Apple/PowerBook/pb5xx_hdd_caddy.scad at main · mmuman/cad-retro-parts

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#3dprinting #Mac68k #BlueSCSI #powerbook

It's week end, so again on the #powerbook 170.
I removed the cmos battery to avoid future leaks, and made the trackball finally work replacing a capacitor and cleaning/re-setting all the connectors.
Now on the #bluescsi. No way to make this thing to boot from it. I tried formatting the virtual disk from the 170 instead of creating from the pc. It formats but then while copying the files I have a lot of i/o errors. It seems like it bursts for some seconds and then hangs. The OS seems waiting a bit and then showing the error, maybe after a #scsi timeout...
Not sure how to troubleshoot this. The bluescsi log in the microSD doesn't show any error...

#retrocomputing #scsi #apple #laptop #motorola #mac #classicmac

#apple #motorola #mac #laptop #retrocomputing #BlueSCSI #SCSI #powerbook #classicmac

Thinking about upgrading my powerbook 2011 to something a bit newer but not brand new. I’m looking for something that can run the latest Mac OS though ideally just under whatever the cutoff was for that apple AI shit. anyone got a recommendations? #applehowtos #powerbook #macbook
#macbook #powerbook #applehowtos

Again on the #powerbook 170: i'm trying to understand how the heck should I set the #bluescsi #termination #jumpers. The website dehij.hiddej.nl/ is offline. I could find it on the #waybackmachine , but it doesn't load...
BTW, I found a schematic on github.com/dehij/powerbook-blu… . That's the v2 schematic, but it seems very similar to the v1.1a I've got (they changed only some footprints, I believe). I see I can, using the jumpers, set the #SCSI #SCSI_IO pin to 5v, to ground or to #TERM_PWR (that's another SCSI pin). I unerstand I should terminate the bus, as there's no other devices connected, but I really have no clue on how I should set those jumpers....

GitHub - dehij/powerbook-bluescsi: BlueSCSI PowerBook edition by dehij

BlueSCSI PowerBook edition by dehij. Contribute to dehij/powerbook-bluescsi development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#waybackmachine #BlueSCSI #SCSI #powerbook #jumpers #scsi_io #term_pwr #termination

#retrocomputing question: I'm trying to boot my #macintosh #powerbook 170 from #floppy . So i used a #linux machine with #dd to write a known good #system7 disk image onto a known good #floppydisk .
But dd exits reporting an i/o error while writing. Note that I can create working #msdos floppy with the same drive and same floppy. Also tried other floppies, same error and every time at the same place (44kb from the start).
As expected, the mac won't boot, but for a little while I see the happy mac icon, so it seems the first part of the disk is correct.
Is there any mac-specific parameter to pass to dd? Any other hints?
#linux #macintosh #retrocomputing #floppydisk #msdos #floppy #powerbook #DD #system7

So, a PowerBook 190cs fell into my lap today (no, that wasn’t the cause of the damage) and needless to say, I couldn’t say no. I mean, what if it had already been upgraded to a 5300cs, or its hard drive contained rare unarchived software on it? Perhaps its destiny is to become an awe inspiring frankenMac. Thankfully, at the very least, parts.
#vintageapple #macintosh #powerbook #batteryleakage #retrocomputing
Damaged Apple PowerBook 190cs. The screen separated from the body.
Close up of cracks on Apple PowerBook 190cs lcd screen assembly.
Close up of the inside of the battery bay. Badly corroded from battery leakage.
#macintosh #retrocomputing #vintageapple #batteryleakage #powerbook

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