Huzzah, I got the hard drive working by opening the case up and the manually moving the the read head as explained by mactjaap here on the forum that post should be stickied!

the system was apparently last used on 21/03/2000 that is pretty recent! It apparently also has a built in modem. Are there still telnet servers around where you can actually dial in ?

@TheIanMan85: I actually just mean the little button on the front of the Powerbook to open the top from the bottom.

Thanks Beachycove I was suspecting it to be caps xx(

I'll do a proper photo shoot tomorrow