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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Laptop Liberator PowerBridge? | Posted by: sulement on 2017-02-17 17:17:01
I've been handed this device, made in 1992 by Software Architects, Inc. to see if I can find it's real use and any information about it:
FCCID: KAJSATELLH0000001. It is a gray, ribbed block with a female Centronics connector at both ends and a thin gray cable fixed at one side ending in a DC plug at the other. At the end where the DC plug is, there is a female DC Jack in the block. Anybody?
| Posted by: rsolberg on 2017-02-17 19:48:29
That's a special SCSI bridge device used with PowerBooks that don't support SCSI Disk Mode. I think you have a typo in the FCC ID. It should read KAJSAIELLH0000001
Excerpt from MacWorld, June 1994 issue: "The PowerBook 140, 145, 145B, and
170 lack the necessary ROM code for
SCSI disk mode. However, the S249 Lap-
top Liberator from Software Architects
(206/487-0122) supplies a combination
hardware SCSI adapter and software that
supports SCSI disk mode on those mod-
els. Laptop Liberator can also create and
format a DOS partition on a PowerBook
hard disk so any PowerBook can connect
as a SCSI drive to a DOS or Windows
machine with a SCSI interface..."
| Posted by: sulement on 2017-02-17 21:24:24
Thank you! Yes, I had to try to read that FCC ID string in low light so the mistake was easily made for old eyes. Any chance the software is anywhere to be found?
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