Tested it some more:
- OS 8.1 is unbearably slow to boot up; seems to be some crappy install of mixed 7.6 and 8.1 files. Scrolling was painful for starters. I disabled a few extensions and it seems much zippier, but a reinstall of OS 8.1 is definately in order.
- The Newertech NUpowr PPC card is an oddity; 167Mhz but detects 128K cache (which can be enabled/disabled using a control panel utility). Kind of weird, because they only made 183Mhz models with 128K cache.
- Battery acid was cleaned without too much fuss - it all crumbled off.
- The 540MB hard disk is an Apple SCSI model - not the 2.5" SCSI --> IDE adapter I was gunning for
Owning such a nice example of a PB500, it's only now that I realise the case plastics are different colours of grey; darker on the top lid, but largely a much lighter shade elsewhere. Quite an attractive machine really.
JB
- OS 8.1 is unbearably slow to boot up; seems to be some crappy install of mixed 7.6 and 8.1 files. Scrolling was painful for starters. I disabled a few extensions and it seems much zippier, but a reinstall of OS 8.1 is definately in order.
- The Newertech NUpowr PPC card is an oddity; 167Mhz but detects 128K cache (which can be enabled/disabled using a control panel utility). Kind of weird, because they only made 183Mhz models with 128K cache.
- Battery acid was cleaned without too much fuss - it all crumbled off.
- The 540MB hard disk is an Apple SCSI model - not the 2.5" SCSI --> IDE adapter I was gunning for
Owning such a nice example of a PB500, it's only now that I realise the case plastics are different colours of grey; darker on the top lid, but largely a much lighter shade elsewhere. Quite an attractive machine really.
JB