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My first Powerbook 210 Duo
Posted by: galgot on 2014-11-05 03:38:27 And another one ! continuing the Duo saga , 270c this time : Beautiful 😛 Boot at first try… but but 🙂 I was warned by the seller, that's why it was cheap. he didn't know the pass. Tried the dubb passwords like "pass", "motdepasse", "123456"… ect… nope. I can make 3 try at each boot, then it make an BZZZZ noise then shows the ? mark . funny stuff. Will format the drive on another machine.
Posted by: Elfen on 2014-11-05 06:55:51 You have a Duo Floppy Adapter? Boot from floppy and delete the extensions and its preferences.
Posted by: J English Smith on 2014-11-05 08:38:57 Very pretty 270! Those were the hot machines at the ad agency I worked at in the 90s. All of the bigwigs had them so they could carry those rather than a "bulky" 540. We rank and file account executives just had Centris models, sigh.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2014-11-05 08:57:49 And another one ! continuing the Duo saga , 270c this time . . . Beautiful 😛 Boot at first try… but but 🙂 But what? GREAT snag, it has a functional 2.5" SCSI HDD in it! Will format the drive on another machine. Whether t'is nobler . . . . . . never mind the bard, get your SCSI & SCSI Disk Mode cables and you can do whatever you want with the the drives without cracking the case. Meantime, swap the HDDs for practice. Hast need of dockage methinks. ;D
Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-05 09:37:56 You can likely crack this by replacing the disk driver. Just to pry and figure out whats on it.
Posted by: Macdrone on 2014-11-05 10:53:10 Get a floppy drive and wipe it, or boot off floppy and remove the software lock.
Posted by: bibilit on 2014-11-05 12:22:23 Great conquest again Gaël, don't have any duo...congrats.
Posted by: galgot on 2014-11-05 13:41:15 So tested the drives of the 210 and the 270c on a PB170. Both are Ok, only the one from the 210 is very very noisy... The password protected one (from 270c) wouldn't mount, even when booting on a floppy. Hooked the 170 to a 1400c in SCSI, and tried to mount the HD with diskSetup, but it would see the HD only to tell it could be initialized… so i did. I have yet to install a Syst 7 , then put it back into the 270c. But enough for this evening 😉
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