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This is a photo of my raised feet and my beloved PowerBook 2400C, while sitting at our blue couch in our Pittsburgh apartment. This was supposed to be the picture on my Manila Times column but the editors didn't let me do so.
My powerbook slipped out of my backpack and hit the ground hard. Crud! Luckily, it still works fine, it's just dented quite harshly.
The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 180 features a 33 MHz 68030 processor, 4 MB of RAM, and either an 80 MB or a 120 MB hard drive in a compact portable case with a 9.8" grayscale active-matrix display. Although the built-in display of the PowerBook 180 only supports 4-bit grayscale, it supports 8-bit color on an external monitor.
I installed the recently released free version of the Quake ][ binary and ran it in my old Quake 2 folder and .. wow! It looks and runs great. One big upgrade is that it now supports widescreen resolutions! Here's a screenshot at full 1680x1050 size. Nice, eh?
We started with two broken powerbooks. One of the problems was a broken hinge. We had to rip the entire monitor apart which just so happened to be glued together. Had we have known...
Packed box with all of its spiffy contents after repair, even the plastic sleeve for the power adapter. The floppies are in the accessory holder, hidden from view.
Note comprehensive toolkit and mandatory mug of tea arranged next to the electronics. Toolkit comprises torx & philips bits on interchangeable handle (other handles not visible), needlenose pliers substituting for a Nut bit, a disintegrating plastic knife substituting very poorly for a nylon pry, and two bamboo skewers increasingly substituting for the increasingly disintegrating plastic knife.