[jhm731]

Pulled the boxes for my Budge Khorus speakers out of the attic to get them
ready for shipping. Found this Apple ad among the newspaper stuffing:

[SET Man]

Hey!

   Cool find

    Wow! Check out the PowerBook there $2299.99 for 25MHz! For that price today you can get a pretty good PB machine. But than again back than softwares back than are not very demanding like today's.

   Anyway, I'm writing this on a 12" PowerBook G4 1GHz circa 2004 

   I'm seriously thinking about getting a new Mac soon.

Take care,
Buddy

[Bemopti123]

Hey, I had that Mac Classic Color which served me well into 1996 when I got an old Color Powerbook for $1500.  I am on my third Mac Laptop....My 2005 G4 1.5 ghz is all dented, with missing switches and into its 3rd battery is still clunking along. 

I am looking into a MacBook Air next. 

[bunnyma357]

This spurred me to head down to the basement and see if the old PB100 would fire up. Sounds like it's booting up, but I think the screen has died. Man that was a small screen.





Maybe I'll have to dig up the Mac Plus and give it a try.

Jim C

[JohnR]

Too funny. I had a PowerBook 170, it stopped working a while back, I only just put it in the e-waste earlier this year 

[bunnyma357]

Well, after having been sitting in a storage bin for at least a decade, the PB100 has seemed to partially heal itself after being powered on overnight. The tiny display looks like it sustained some damage though.  It feels remarkably like a Netbook, and the performance is suprisingly quick, running a much leaner version of Word - of course, it is pretty maxed out with 8 MB of RAM and a 120 MB Drive....


Jim C