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It's amazing what you can find in someones closet.........

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I was over at one of my old Mac buddies house today. (This guy literally has two full rooms of mac parts)

Anyhow he was helping me with a harddrive I happen to ask him if he had any
other Powerbooks. he walks into his closet and pulls out a bag........

I plugged it in and voila it works....lol

Powerbook 145B

Now check out these specs.
25Mhz
4MB RAM
120MB HD
9.8" monochrome passive-matrix


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Good Find! I have the Powerbook 170 which is from the same time period but TFT display and a bit more RAM. Still works also!


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bargsbeer said:
I was over at one of my old Mac buddies house today. (This guy literally has two full rooms of mac parts)

Anyhow he was helping me with a harddrive I happen to ask him if he had any
other Powerbooks. he walks into his closet and pulls out a bag........

I plugged it in and voila it works....lol
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You really shouldn't have been too surprised by this...you already mentioned that this "Mac Buddy" had two full rooms of parts.;)

So did he give you the Powerbook 145?...do you have any plans for it?

- Nick
 
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pigoo3 said:
You really shouldn't have been too surprised by this...you already mentioned that this "Mac Buddy" had two full rooms of parts.;)

So did he give you the Powerbook 145?...do you have any plans for it?

- Nick
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He gave it to me, Not sure what to do with it.I was playing with it last night, brings back memories.... Just think at one time this was a top line expensive Powerbook...lol
 
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bargsbeer said:
Just think at one time this was a top line expensive Powerbook...lol
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Yes...that's what I think about all of the Mac's I have. At one time they cost A LOT MORE MONEY...and were the cutting edge of technology at the time!:)

I wish we could convey this same sort of logic to all of the folks who are waiting for the next laptop, Mac Pro, or iMac update before buying. They really don't realize that in no time at all...their cutting edge computer will just be yesterday's "has been" computer.;)

Life as "King of the Hill" in the computing world is very very short!!!;)

- Nick
 
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Hahahha awesome find! I wish I tech savy friends! I'm the only tech guy out of every one I know lol.
 
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Good find!

I still remember the days of my families old packerd bell where we were in awww of 64mb of ram. It was like "NO WAY! That thing has a floppy drive AND 64mb's of ram!"

I can't imagine how my kids kids will look upon the computers we used today....
 
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TheGreatApple said:
Good find!

I still remember the days of my families old packerd bell where we were in awww of 64mb of ram. It was like "NO WAY! That thing has a floppy drive AND 64mb's of ram!"

I can't imagine how my kids kids will look upon the computers we used today....
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Pfft, if I ever have kids, they'll respect these machines, because they're their history. You couldn't get to wear they are without this step. Plus, I'll be keepng up with the tech right along.
 
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DarkestRitual said:
Pfft, if I ever have kids, they'll respect these machines, because they're their history. You couldn't get to wear they are without this step. Plus, I'll be keepng up with the tech right along.
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Well that is how they SHOULD look upon them. :)
 
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Nice. I wish I had a Powerbook that old. I still use my 3400/180 regularly. 40MB of RAM, OS 8.6. Mine is upgraded with a 16GB CompactFlash hard disk. It's silent and ultrafast. After my iBook's hard disk went south for the SECOND time back in 2005, I just gave up on it and went back to the 3400.
 

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