Powerbook 5xx Rev C PCMCIA Adapter on ebay

#1 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 07:10 68kMLA

Anyone picked up on this?

As of this writing its up to $US43

I have a powerbook 520c and a wavelan silver card.

I am watching closely to see what it goes for.

Might even throw in a bid :-/

#2 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 07:38 68kMLA

The part does make what is a great portable Mac into a truly useful one

I picked up a Rev C adapter off here some years back and it's wonderful for wireless and using a CF card as hard disk.

#3 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 09:25 68kMLA

Yeah, I'm drooling alright. Getting the 520c wireless would be way cool, but I think with

2.5 SCSI drives increasingly going the way of the dinosaur,

a cf card to boot from would greatly extend the life of the powerbook 520c a great deal.

Have you tried this? Will it work?

#4 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 12:17 68kMLA

Yes, I can confirm that it will boot up off a generic PCMCIA CF card adapter + various sizes of cards (biggest I tried was 2GB I think). Faster in some ways, not in others.

#5 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 12:37 68kMLA

Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality?

#6 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 15:44 68kMLA

Is there anything special about a revision C in terms of functionality?

Only the rev C can use WiFi cards.

#7 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 15:55 68kMLA

Is there an easy way to check what revision it is?

So, revision C's are the only ones that can be configured as a network interface?

#8 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 03:20 68kMLA

I bid $US55 but it went for $US127! Too much for me.. :-(

#9 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 - 05:32 68kMLA

There's been two of these on ebay the last month. The other one went for close to $150.00. They are getting harder and harder to find so people are bidding up on these.

#10 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 - 06:03 68kMLA

I'd like to know what tree they get the money from to bid that high.