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Post #8 by olePigeon
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Success! Installed a Conner 120MB HDD. This was one of the upgrades offered for the Outbound Notebook, it's just by chance some guy had a bunch of these. Worked like a charm! :D As you can see, it has the vertical and horizontal ghosting. The backlight starts off fairly dim, but after only a couple minutes of use, it's nice and very bright. I suppose it's just old. :) Would a recap alleviate the ghosting, or is this just a sign of age for these old B&W LCDs? I've seen it on older PowerBook 100s as well, and especially on older x86 luggables.

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Upon opening the laptop, it appears it's also been upgraded. Check out that 68030. 8-) This was a 2000 model, it's now a 2030 with a 120MB HDD instead of the regular 20MB. I upgraded the RAM from 2MB to 4MB with some extra SIMMs I had. Pretty smokin'! I think it'll go up to 16MBs of RAM. There's a spot there for an FPU, unfortunately I don't have an extra one lying around.

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And here's the whole shebang. About as complete as you can get, I think. I haven't decided if I'm going to sell it. I really need the money, but how common is a complete Outbound Notebook? Sigh. It is kinda cool to have what is essentially a portable Mac Plus. Dark Castle anyone? :)

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