Super old laptop

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:55 pm

Digging through my closet, found an old Powerbook 190cs.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:57 pm

Macintosh=SUCKS

IBM=SUCKS

MICROSOFT=awsome except xbox,xbox 360

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:58 pm

Microsoft doesn't make a lot of computers except the Xbox, and Xbox 360.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:59 pm

im sorry i ment they sucked except the xbox and 360,

the best computers are homemade like mine

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:01 am

Microsoft dont make electronics, they just fund them, as far as I know. I hear the Xbox and 360 are manufactured in Segas old plant.

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:03 am

I think all windows computers are after market.

Back on topic please.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:03 am

really, wow never would have thought that

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:14 am

Here's some scale shots.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:17 am

pretty small

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:36 am

I don't have pictures but I used to have a Zenith 286 laptop, it was an astounding 12mhz with 1Mb ram, a 20Mb HD and a built-in 2400 Baud modem. I even had the battery pack, the laptop alone weighed 9lbs with a battery it was 13lbs.

The HD controller went south so I tossed it. Until then it had FreeDOS and GEM OS.

Here is a similar one:
http://home.att.net/~dale.keller/museum ... ith286.htm

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:09 am

Here's the specs

20 meg virtual memory, 8 mb physical.

An impressive 33 MHZ processor

Unidentified Assilant · Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:54 am

MaDnEsS wrote:im sorry i ment they sucked except the xbox and 360,

the best computers are homemade like mine

yep! mines homemade

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:26 am

Wow, a 33 mhx 68lC040! That's the rough equivelant of a Quadra 630 but without some of the FPU functions.

(sorry I just get all excited about the old Mac hardware.

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I've got a PowerBook 5300 Seed Unit! (very late prototype). On the bottom it has a label: M2 Seed Unit Not for Resale, and a bar code: Powerbook Development Team PB01916. It has (IIRc) a 1 gig HD, and a color, active-matrix (TFT) LCD screen. It looks exactly like a production 5300, but the left side product label (under the screen) says Powerbook XXXX. The right side label is blank.

I've also got a couple Powerbook 1400s around here somewhere. One even has a BookCovers clear plastic cover on it! (You could print your own art on A4 paper, cut it out following the template, and have a custom laptop cover. It was kinda fun.)

The Duos are awesome! Small, lightweight laptops that just have the motherboard, keyboard, trackball (later models had trackpads) and screen. Everything else was connected with the Duo Dock (you put your laptop into it and it became a full featured desktop machine, complete with monitor, external hard drive and NuBus expansion slots) or the MiniDock (A power strip of sorts that clipped to the back of the Duo to give it all the desktop ports including ADB and SCSI), or MicroDocks (mini-MiniDocks that just had any one of the MiniDock ports and an ADB port). I have a couple Duo 230s (68040@25 mhz) and a 2300c (PowerPC 601@100mhz).

But by far the oldest laptop I have is my Zenith Datasystems TranSport. 16 meg hard drive, 720k floppy drive, 8086 processor (5 mhz?) and a built in very low baud modem (it died so I removed it and use its space for floppy storage). Unfortunately the LCD's backlight is wearing out, and it gives me "Divide Overflow" errors on startup. Oh well, what do you expect after 20 years or so?

(sorry everyone. But I said I get excited about old Mac hardware!

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Post by **Triton** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:56 am

only laptop ever owned was a mac powerbook 180, i sold it to a friend of mine for 3x what i paif dor it (paid 5$ lol)

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:39 am

Unidentified Assilant wrote:
MaDnEsS wrote:im sorry i ment they sucked except the xbox and 360,

the best computers are homemade like mine
yep! mines homemade

Specs

160g hard drive

ATI 9800 pro video card

pentium 4 w HT processor

DVD/CDR combo drive

AND the best feture of all neon lights with a clear case and in the mouse