As I suspect you know, the colour PowerBook Duo screens where marginally thicker than those found on the greyscale models, and so a replacement lid for the original DuoDock was available for those who had invested in the setup but who upgraded to a colour PowerBook Duo once they were released. Otherwise the proud new owner would face a "situation" rather like you did. The problem was, one supposes, due to an oversight in the initial DuoDock design. All the new lid amounted to, so far as I can tell, was a slightly taller and heavier design (for larger monitors).
You could probably achieve much the same thing by trying some modest alterations to the base or lid (even felt padding might work) so as to be able to insert/ remove both machines into/ from the DuoDock, and not be able to tell, really, that any changes had been made. As you have seen, you probably only need to provide an extra 2 or 3 mm. of clearance. You could likely find the exact figure from the spec. sheets.
It is good to hear that your 2300c is working. It is an elegant and surprisingly capable model. Mine runs Office 2001 quite happily, though things can get a trifle cramped on its 640x480 display with that software. Running ClarisWorks 4, it is a rocket.
My personal favourite is the 270c, however, the screen of which is such a gem, and the power management features of which are so much better than those of the later models (e.g., you can halve the speed at which a 68030 PowerBook runs in order to save on battery usage, giving another hour or so of runtime on a charge, which you certainly cannot do on a 68LC040 PowerBook or on any of the 603e PowerBooks — the reduced speed makes virtually no difference if all you are doing is working on text). The machine, nevertheless, is comparable to a PowerBook 180 in capability when running at full tilt, and performs at roughly the same levels in Speedometer tests. Like the 180, it has a 33MHz 68030 + 68882 processor, but unlike the 180, it is capable of taking 32MB of RAM. Using the 270c reminds me very much of working on a SE/30 or similar, since the screen is just as crisp, especially in Black & White (very fast that way, too). I am not sure what the 270c's colour screen was technologically, as it seems to be unique to that model, the 280c, and the 180c, but it isn't one of the TFT screens that soon appeared, became ubiquitous, and that you have on your 2300c. It actually had a glass surface, rather akin to that of the MacBook Pro I am typing on now.
Fabulous, unique and very interesting little machines, the Duos. It's just a crying shame that the keyboards do not perform well.
You could probably achieve much the same thing by trying some modest alterations to the base or lid (even felt padding might work) so as to be able to insert/ remove both machines into/ from the DuoDock, and not be able to tell, really, that any changes had been made. As you have seen, you probably only need to provide an extra 2 or 3 mm. of clearance. You could likely find the exact figure from the spec. sheets.
It is good to hear that your 2300c is working. It is an elegant and surprisingly capable model. Mine runs Office 2001 quite happily, though things can get a trifle cramped on its 640x480 display with that software. Running ClarisWorks 4, it is a rocket.
My personal favourite is the 270c, however, the screen of which is such a gem, and the power management features of which are so much better than those of the later models (e.g., you can halve the speed at which a 68030 PowerBook runs in order to save on battery usage, giving another hour or so of runtime on a charge, which you certainly cannot do on a 68LC040 PowerBook or on any of the 603e PowerBooks — the reduced speed makes virtually no difference if all you are doing is working on text). The machine, nevertheless, is comparable to a PowerBook 180 in capability when running at full tilt, and performs at roughly the same levels in Speedometer tests. Like the 180, it has a 33MHz 68030 + 68882 processor, but unlike the 180, it is capable of taking 32MB of RAM. Using the 270c reminds me very much of working on a SE/30 or similar, since the screen is just as crisp, especially in Black & White (very fast that way, too). I am not sure what the 270c's colour screen was technologically, as it seems to be unique to that model, the 280c, and the 180c, but it isn't one of the TFT screens that soon appeared, became ubiquitous, and that you have on your 2300c. It actually had a glass surface, rather akin to that of the MacBook Pro I am typing on now.
Fabulous, unique and very interesting little machines, the Duos. It's just a crying shame that the keyboards do not perform well.