Some cruel soul threw out a perfectly working Powerbook 520

[everett1911]

You bet I picked it up, there was even its charger! The screen's backlight shimered but some very precise percussive maintenance made it stop doing that.

I have a feeling the hard disk's on its way out but otherwise everything else works. It doesn't have the PCMCIA adapter and both batteries are dead but hey, free vintage powerbook!

 

[keysofanxiety]

Possibly Goldbloom threw it out because only the 5300 could hack the alien mothership.

 

[MacTech68]

One of the better appointed 68K Powerbooks IMHO, and the first with a 'trackpad'.

A great find, indeed.

 

[everett1911]

Just curious, are there scsi to compactflash adapters for these old kinda laptops?

 

[MacTech68]

Yes there certainly is, but they're not cheap.

You can get a SCSI to CF adapter

http://www.artmix.com/CF_powermon_II.html (English Translation click here)


or a SCSI to SD card adapter:

http://shop.codesrc.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59&product_id=52


Whatever you decide upon, must be a 2.5" form-factor.

 

[bopajuice]

Is that a trackpad or a fingerprint reader? Great find!

 

[everett1911]

Is that a trackpad or a fingerprint reader? Great find!

Naw it's just where the lid mechanism latches, but yes this is a trackpad. These were the first powerbooks with a trackpad!

 

[everett1911]

Haha yeah almost like clockwork, the HDD died.

No biggie, this thing takes 1.44mb floppies so I can get myself a system 7 floppy installation or something until I can get a scsi to sd adapter or something!

 

[Evergreener1971]

I know this thread is old but I have a screen and 160 MB Hdd. I would be willing to mail them to you at my own expense if you are interested. I can be reached at cpck4@live.com

Haha yeah almost like clockwork, the HDD died.

No biggie, this thing takes 1.44mb floppies so I can get myself a system 7 floppy installation or something until I can get a scsi to sd adapter or something!

 

[everett1911]

I know this thread is old but I have a screen and 160 MB Hdd. I would be willing to mail them to you at my own expense if you are interested. I can be reached at cpck4@live.com

Really? Is there a catch?

 

[Evergreener1971]

Really? Is there a catch?

No catch. I have a tremendous respect for all things old. I hate throwing things out. And I have hung on to this stuff for a few years wondering what to do with it. I was searching for information on the value if I sold it, and ran across your post. Problem solved. It could take a few days to get it in the mail, I'm ill, and I have to wait until I'm not having weird histamine reactions to everything but I get out every four to five days. Just pm me or send an address to the email I posted in my first reply, and I will send those to you shortly.

 

[makr]

Wow the trackpad is tiny compared to the ones we have today.

 

[weckart]

Wow the trackpad is tiny compared to the ones we have today.

You should see the size of the hard drive. Mine was a whopping 80MB before I replaced it with a humungous 270MB behemoth.

 

[CooperBox]

I know this thread is old but I have a screen and 160 MB Hdd. I would be willing to mail them to you at my own expense if you are interested. I can be reached at cpck4@live.com

Kudos to you! It's great to see vintage parts being donated. I've done the same myself on occasions and it's a great sense of satisfaction knowing that another vintage Mac still lives on and performs as designed.