So today Mum and I took another run out to the tip shop, which is just near the uni. And I hit paydirt again. As I'm walking towards the electrical section, the first thing I see is an old laptop of some kind. I assume its an old Pentium of some sort, but I thought I'd have a look anyway. Then I saw the side of it - it was a 500 series of some sort! I open it up, and its a 520c. I ask the guy how much he wants for it. 5 bucks! Its in poor shape, dirty as all Hell, and has a hole in the display case, in the lid near the sleep LED, and there's no power adaptor, but even so, still worth it, even just for the SCSI HDD trapped inside it, hoping that it works.

I've tried a bootup from the battery, to no avail, but i'll take that with a grain of salt, given that at the moment its only power source is a 14 year old (Un)"Intelligent" battery. Anyone up for sharing the power requirements and pinouts for the 500 series PBs? It'd be sweet to see if i could get this baby up.