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Anybody Got A Portable?
If you read the thread, you'll note I did not have them in the first place and was also looking for the ROMs and it took me over two months to get them – the PowerBook 100 through a purchase off eBay and the Portable eventually donated. I have since acquired an original Portable to extract the ROM from myself, but am still waiting for a Portable with the backlight upgraded ROM for comparison. None of this is vital stuff and I shall wait as long as it takes. As they say, good things come to those ... The thread also discusses the analysis of those ROMs, which seems to be the reason you are seeking them. Nevertheless, I have to recover them from a crashed disk which I posted about on this forum, or retrieve them again from my stored Macs. Considering that the only purpose for these ROMs at present is research, and that goal accomplished and presented here for everyone, it may be a while before I go to the trouble.
Does the disk crash mean you need to get another copy of the ROMs for a later model backlit Portable (the factory fitted backlight, not the upgrade for the orginal Portable)?
Yup. Unless I can recover it. Though I've no need for it now, other than posterity since it served its research purpose and there is absolutely nothing else that can be done with it at present.
I have only seen a Portable once.
It was at the Spring Branch ISD auctions. I went there to preview the lots, one of which was a bunch of laptops.
On first glance they all looked like PC laptops, but I noticed two G3s on top, a 180 in there, and then what looked like a 1400.
Then I opened the black bag, and there it was.
https://www.lemonsauctioneers.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000016023
You can see the bag underneath two crap laptops.
Unfortunately, I could not justify paying $800 for a bunch of laptops that were probably broken, even if I did get a Portable out of the deal.
It was at the Spring Branch ISD auctions. I went there to preview the lots, one of which was a bunch of laptops.
On first glance they all looked like PC laptops, but I noticed two G3s on top, a 180 in there, and then what looked like a 1400.
Then I opened the black bag, and there it was.
https://www.lemonsauctioneers.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000016023
You can see the bag underneath two crap laptops.
Unfortunately, I could not justify paying $800 for a bunch of laptops that were probably broken, even if I did get a Portable out of the deal.
They turn up on eBay all the time. I sit and wait patiently for things I see routinely on eBay until I can get them for a price. I paid all of $11 for my Portable (and I think about $16 shipping). Mom always said patience was a virtue. :beige:
I've also seen one exactly once. Back in 1998 my parents and I were down in Brisbane for a few days. One day Dad and I went into the city to check out some computer shops. We went to an AASP called "Macs Place", where they had a sort of a mini Apple museum in a corner. Anyway, it was a quiet day, and the sales guy there was telling me all about the machines they had there (a 512k, a IIsi, and a Portable), and let me have a play with them. The Portable I used was a backlit Portable running System 7.0.1, and from memory was quite a nice machine, if a bit big. That day was also the day when I first used a G3, a Beige G3/233 which was also the very first time I got to use a Mac on the Internet. Ahh, memories. 