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It works! I guess I could've done some voltage checks before plugging it into a laptop, but where's the excitement in that. But I did try it out on the old busted Powerbook that doesn't really work anyway.
August 2010; Cleaning out the back of my garage and look what I found. My old PowerBook Duo 230 from 1996, with almost no RAM and even a smaller hard-drive. No CD Drive only an external floppy drive, no Ethernet plug, only a modem. Used it for e-mail (AOL), word processing and spreadsheets.
It still starts up...
We were spring cleaning our lab and I chanced upon this sweet box! It was from a time when the Apple logo had colors. By the way, anyone know why the Apple logo has a byte taken out of it? ^^. I was pretty excited when I found this. Does it even still work?
More about this photo at http://www.kenleewrites.com/2009/02/powerbook-duo-270c.html.
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Go there to get the application to do it. This is the boot screen BTW
On a flight to Italy, the second we're airborne and the seatbelt sign goes off, all three of us in the row reach into our bags and almost simultaneously pull out three PowerBooks. None of us shared a common language, but at that moment we just smiled at one another and began jamming away. Nice.
I bought this powerbook in January 2003. It had various mishaps and hanification moments along the way. Its case was very scratched as I never bought a slipcase for it. Finally my boyfriend made me a case for my birthday in 2004 but shortly afterwards, I tripped over the power cable and it fell, landing on the screen on the concrete floor. It still worked perfectly, amazingly, but the amount of the screen that I could see out of steadily reduced. Finally in April or so 2005 I had to accept that its fate was terminal and buy a new one. Retired in Greensboro, Alabama, April 2005.
Close up of the dock on my old Apple PowerBook G4 12"
This has been replaced by a black MacBook which, to date has given me no problems.
Migz doesn't look like a bookworm, but he is. He can read all day, goddamn his nonchalance on academics. And he would bug people for good books whenever he runs out of one.
He's the mastermind of this game. Rawr.
My new development station for the next year will be the MacBook Pro 17 running...Windows! The old 12" PowerBook G4 is awfully cute, though.
My Powerbook is my only workstation. I do everything there. I work nearly 24/7... nearly. The screen shows my basic blog.