Powerbook Duo 230 - Gem or Junk?
Ғылым және технология
Thanks to www.pcbway.com for sponsoring this video. $5 of 10 PCBs, and much more.
Sometimes you see a real bargain on eBay that's just too good to be true...
And so, the PowerBook Duo 230 - Gem or Junk. The Duo was my first encounter with the Apple Macintosh, way back in 1994. I jumped at this incredibly cheap example.
Was it a good buy? Is it a gem, or is it junk...?
If you'd like to help support this channel, please check out my Patreon. You can also make a one-off donation or use the channel Super Thanks.
Patreon: / timsretrocorner
Donate: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...
Follow me on Mastodon: retrorewind.social/@trc
Some other channels you should check out:
8BitRetroRefix: @8BitRetroReFix
Captain Commodore: @CaptainCommodore
Jess B's Tech Dept @techdept
Josip Retro Bits: @JosipRetroBits
Retro Krazy: @RetroKrazy
Retro4u: @Retro4u
00:00 - Introduction
01:21 - PCBWay
02:44 - First Look
09:54 - Taking it Apart
29:56 - Oh No! He’s Twisting It!!
31:28 - The Keyboard
36:27 - New Capacitors
40:24 - Reassembly
43:31 - Trying it Out
45:42 - Conclusions and Summary
Пікірлер: 6
This looks like a gem of a channel, and god i do love that laptop. It looks just broke enough that it would actually dare to fiddle around with it. Actually had to sell my pristine powerbook 180 because i didint dare to even touch it, fearing the hinges would break or something.
Nice video Tim :) I was hoping it would fire up but no..., still very nice work on the machine. Cheers!
Good try Tim, a project for the future!
Shame it didn't fire up, hopefully another will end up in your collection and allow you to swap-fault diagnose this
Oh dear, this looked too far gone :(
Junk :( ... But good for spares mate :)