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Nice 520c

68kMLA Hardware 3 posts Aug 16, 2011 to Aug 29, 2011

#1 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 - 20:25 68kMLA

Made it to the local flea market this weekend and found a Powerbook 520c with power supply and HDI30 SCSI adapter.

Seller had no idea if it worked or not. Powerbook cleaned up nicely with some elbow grease and Simple Green. Works

great. 12MB RAM with a 240MB HD. Power supply is flakey, maybe dying. Cost? $2.50 total. Looks very nice sitting

next to my 540c

#2 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 - 23:31 68kMLA

Not bad...I picked up a 520c a few months back, I wasn't sure how I'd go with the passive matrix screen (since I haven't used one in years), or only having 12MB of RAM on a '040 based system but I have to say - its really quite a nice little machine to use.

#3 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 - 15:58 68kMLA

I had a PB520c many years ago. It was an OK laptop. Not my daily driver but something to tinker with none the less. IIRC, I sold it on e-bay to another Mac collector. Considering I hardly used (much preferred my PB5300) it wasn't all that big of a loss.

Have fun with your little PB though.