Wow, beachycove, what a complete answer! Thanks a lot to both of you.
Actually last night I took some time to test those babies, and it seems like it's Christmas all over again!
Look: both the 230 and the 2300c are in pristine cosmetic condition. And the 2300c that was said to have a defective screen actually is in perfect working condition. Both do have a few of those ghost lines you usually get on old LCD screens, but nothing too bad. So I got two Duos, one of the firsts and the last in the serie, in great working condition. The Dock is the first model, work great, and has a 160 Mb hard drive. The beige part of the case is badly yellowed, though. That will add to my "yellow squadron" of prevously beige machines I intend to retrobright sometime…
And among the free stuff I got with, there is three Duo main batteries, a 1xx battery (apparently all dead), four (!) Duo power bricks, two Apple-branded "micro-docks" (floppy and ADB ports), two third-party mini docks with SCSI, floppy, and video ports, two external floppy drives, a PowerBook SCSI adapter (already got a couple of those, but always useful!), some SCSI cables, a couple of video adapters and an Apple AAUI to thin coax ethernet adapter (great, but I had preferred tho other way around!).
You think of a "PowerBook Duo starter kit"!!!
I remember of a friend still using his 2300 on a daily basis in university in the early 2000's, with no accessories but a floppy drive. That was really a vintage setup even for those years, but he didn't see his PowerBook as crippled, but just as a "netbook without the net" he could easily carry around.
Actually last night I took some time to test those babies, and it seems like it's Christmas all over again!
Look: both the 230 and the 2300c are in pristine cosmetic condition. And the 2300c that was said to have a defective screen actually is in perfect working condition. Both do have a few of those ghost lines you usually get on old LCD screens, but nothing too bad. So I got two Duos, one of the firsts and the last in the serie, in great working condition. The Dock is the first model, work great, and has a 160 Mb hard drive. The beige part of the case is badly yellowed, though. That will add to my "yellow squadron" of prevously beige machines I intend to retrobright sometime…
And among the free stuff I got with, there is three Duo main batteries, a 1xx battery (apparently all dead), four (!) Duo power bricks, two Apple-branded "micro-docks" (floppy and ADB ports), two third-party mini docks with SCSI, floppy, and video ports, two external floppy drives, a PowerBook SCSI adapter (already got a couple of those, but always useful!), some SCSI cables, a couple of video adapters and an Apple AAUI to thin coax ethernet adapter (great, but I had preferred tho other way around!).
You think of a "PowerBook Duo starter kit"!!!
I remember of a friend still using his 2300 on a daily basis in university in the early 2000's, with no accessories but a floppy drive. That was really a vintage setup even for those years, but he didn't see his PowerBook as crippled, but just as a "netbook without the net" he could easily carry around.