4 Dec
2005
4 Dec
'05
12:04 p.m.
Well, a local FreeCycler in my area is giving up a working mac
powerbook 5300 series (trying to find out if it is the better/more
loaded 'ce' version). I'm thinking of picking it up since it also
comes with power supply and spare battery that the owner says is good.
Can anyone tell me their experiences with such a machine? I believe
it meets the 10yr rule (or is close to meeting it) as the 5300 line
was out in 1995. Does it take standard PC (PCMCIA) cards or does it
take mac variant PC cards? What is it's upgrade path? Can the OS be
upped to something more recent/stable (as I've been told it started
off with an OS 7.2.x version that was horrible)? Would Linux be a
better choice over mac OS 9.x/10.x on it? Just looking for first hand
experiences/knowledge.
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 02:36 PM 12/4/2005, you wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:51:57 -0800 (PST)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I think you'll enjoy it. :)
I'm now enjoying the SE that I picked up yesterday. I have a CD
burner installed on it and am figuring out just what software will
run on it. It has an Ethernet card, so I plan on fetching some of
the things suitable for the machine and burning to CD. It came
with OS 7.1 installed on it, and I've preserved that. I
'upgraded' to an Apple 250M hard drive, as I could see the 20
megger being completely filled up almost immediately (it already
was, as received). It's really nice that you can just format and
copy over entire drives on the Mac. I plugged in an external SCSI
drive and 'copied over' the entire 20 Meg original drive, then
replaced the internal drive with an Apple 250, then booted from
the external drive and copied it's contents over to the new
internal drive.
I'm right now in the process of installing a PDP-8 Simulator on it
from a shareware CD I got years ago.
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interesting. The most collectible is the SE30.
Update: I did snag the SE/30 from work. Thanks to all for
the advice.