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| Powerbook 5xx Rev C PCMCIA Adapter on ebay |
Posted by: classic on 2011-07-21 23:10:42
Anyone picked up on this?
As of this writing its up to $US43
I have a powerbook 520c and a wavelan silver card.
I am watching closely to see what it goes for.
Might even throw in a bid :-/
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Posted by: Byrd on 2011-07-21 23:38:57
The part does make what is a great portable Mac into a truly useful one 🙂 I picked up a Rev C adapter off here some years back and it's wonderful for wireless and using a CF card as hard disk.
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Posted by: classic on 2011-07-22 01:25:53
Yeah, I'm drooling alright. Getting the 520c wireless would be way cool, but I think with
2.5 SCSI drives increasingly going the way of the dinosaur,
a cf card to boot from would greatly extend the life of the powerbook 520c a great deal.
Have you tried this? Will it work?
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Posted by: Byrd on 2011-07-22 04:17:36
Yes, I can confirm that it will boot up off a generic PCMCIA CF card adapter + various sizes of cards (biggest I tried was 2GB I think). Faster in some ways, not in others.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-07-22 04:37:05
Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality?
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Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2011-07-22 07:44:00
Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality? Only the rev C can use WiFi cards.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-07-22 07:55:01
Is there an easy way to check what revision it is?
So, revision C's are the only ones that can be configured as a network interface?
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Posted by: classic on 2011-07-22 19:20:23
I bid $US55 but it went for $US127! Too much for me.. :-(
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Posted by: blackbird on 2011-07-25 21:32:07
There's been two of these on ebay the last month. The other one went for close to $150.00. They are getting harder and harder to find so people are bidding up on these.
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Posted by: Strimkind on 2011-07-25 22:03:22
I'd like to know what tree they get the money from to bid that high.
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