The Underground Club 12

[Amethyst1]

because I must be deep underground on a Northern line platform given the PowerBook 3400 is given nary a mention!

Talk that up to my ignorance

 

[ADunsmuir]

Frida looks like an absolute sweetheart. Such lovely markings! Glad she eventually learned that MagSafe cables aren’t snacks.

Ah, that’s too bad. Can’t wait until 3D printing arbitrary shapes/colours/materials and 3D scanning get good enough that we can just reproduce time-worn parts like that, Trek replicator style. So many little wear pieces that are near-impossible to find (e.g. rubber feet for iBooks and PowerBook G4s, the power buttons that get brittle and break on old beige Macs)...

Someone on eBay is already selling the repro power buttons. Got one for my 7200/90 and it was perfect.

 

[B S Magnet]

this must only be a sub-surface Underground 12 inch club on a Metropolitan line platform somewhere

because I must be deep underground on a Northern line platform given the PowerBook 3400 is given nary a mention!

“Pardon me, conductor… will this PowerBook 3400 get me to Gosforth in time for supper — or at least to Gateshead, where I can at least hail a taxi?"

Kidding aside, it took looking at your laptops and their being PowerBook 3400c models for me to look up and verify that my memory wasn’t playing with me: yes, there was a PowerPC PowerBook with a passive-matrix greyscale-only display of 9.5 inches: the PowerBook 5300! This was, I believe, the only PowerPC PowerBook to ship with a non-colour display.

 

[Amethyst1]

yes, there was a PowerPC PowerBook with a passive-matrix greyscale-only display of 9.5 inches: the PowerBook 5300! This was, I believe, the only PowerPC PowerBook to ship with a non-colour display.

Who needs colour? As long as the resolution is high enough - oh, wait...

 

[TheShortTimer]

“Pardon me, conductor… will this PowerBook 3400 get me to Gosforth in time for supper — or at least to Gateshead, where I can at least hail a taxi?"

You'd have to really travel back quite a bit in time to find that style of British English in use.

Unfortunately we no longer have bus conductors. More's the pity.

 

[B S Magnet]

You'd have to really travel back quite a bit in time to find that style of British English in use.

Unfortunately we no longer have bus conductors. More's the pity.

They don’t even have an underground in Newcastle anyway.

 

[TheShortTimer]

They don’t even have an underground in Newcastle anyway.

Some elements of the Metro system have underground stations.

 

[B S Magnet]

Some elements of the Metro system have underground stations.

Bizarrely, I only ever rode on buses when I visited there. I never ran across any of the Metro stations.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Bizarrely, I only ever rode on buses when I visited there. I never ran across any of the Metro stations.

Next time you can correct that oversight.

 

[galgot]

May I join ?
Here is an iBook G3/600 A1005. I had not fired it up for a while... So it is upgrading Macport here since a day and half .



This one is in mint condition, case super shiny with almost no scratches.
Will have to change the original HD at some point though. But opening these is a pain.

Btw, talking about Macport, I suppose there is a way to make the upgrades on one machine (like on a G3, which is always very slow) then use that Macport upgraded machine as a source with all the things compiled/installed for other machines, yes ? Is there a simple way to do that ?
(Asking , if it's ever been documented here, and out of laziness of digging in the Macport documentation...)