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| A PowerBook and then some more | |
| Posted by: AndiS on 2021-08-16 15:07:28 I have been loking for a long time to find a 12" 1.5 Ghz Powerbook to repair the one I bought new in 2005 and that is pretty much worn out. Now I got a working one in pretty good condition for only 50 EUR. Neat! I'm looking forward to a refurbished 12" Powerbook 1.5 GHz, the Mac I liked most of all I ever used 🙂 And then, unrelated, but on the same day, I also found a SGI O2. I have not even figured out the exact model and configuration yet, but it works. Awesome, I have wanted one for the last 20 years. No Idea what I will do with it, but the look alone is worth a lot!  | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2021-08-16 18:02:06 That's a really nice score there! My dad used to have one of those. I forgot why we got rid of it... | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2021-08-16 20:31:24 O2s are great machines - watch the plastics though, I'd consider the enclosures to have the same brittle thin cheap stuff as found in Macs of the same era. The clips snap without any effort. | |
Posted by: AndiS on 2021-08-17 00:32:39The clips snap without any effort I feared that when I used the plastic lever to pull out the mainboard. It did not come out easily, but the lever held. It"s probably a good idea to not using it often after cleaning the system. | |
| Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2021-08-20 09:50:57 An O2! We had one of these in my high-school imaging lab (grant funded.) You could make a 90's action movie with some decent CGI that looks better than half the stuff these days, lol. | |
| Posted by: AndiS on 2021-08-20 23:17:19 True, but this is less of a technical problem. More like people are overdoing it 😉 | |
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