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Scored a PB180 via CL
My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--oh well!). Current plan is to SSD it and use it as a replacement for the Mac Portable which I will finally be listing on That Auction Site.
http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/4789137409.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/4789137409.html
I like the 180.
Probably because I have one, but it's still a nice machine.
What SSD do you plan to use?
Probably because I have one, but it's still a nice machine.
What SSD do you plan to use?
Congrats on the score! The PB180 is one that has an IDE port on it?
And like WhiteFalcon asked, what name brand/kind SSD are you putting in?
And like WhiteFalcon asked, what name brand/kind SSD are you putting in?
180 is still SCSI, the 190 and 150 had IDE I believe.
The 150 was an oddball and had ide also.
Thanks guys, I plan on trying the SCSI/Compact Flash SSD sold by eBay member "Artmix".
180's are great. Their LCD is nice, they have a lot of I/O and internally they have a decent amount of expansion and a fast CPU.
Let us know how that adapter works, I'd be interested in it for mine.
180 has arrived, and what a 180 it is: It looks almost new! No yellowing, no shiny spots on the keyboard, no fossilized muffin crumbs or cat hair. There's one case crack around the modem slot, but a little bit of plastic welding should make it vanish. Has a Global Village modem, 8 megabytes of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive.
I was going to re-cell the battery pack, but on second thought decided that I'd be better off just getting a working NIMH pack for $43, which is probably less than I'd pay for a bunch of nicads. Less messy too. Maybe if it were an OEM Apple part, but it's just some generic 3rd party item.
Opening it up revealed no nasty surprises: plastics look great there too. Needed to clean up the nicad ooze which fortunately didn't touch the electronics. While I was at it, I removed the UL2320 PRAM battery and will see if I can pick up another this weekend.
Artmix SSD is on it's way!
I was going to re-cell the battery pack, but on second thought decided that I'd be better off just getting a working NIMH pack for $43, which is probably less than I'd pay for a bunch of nicads. Less messy too. Maybe if it were an OEM Apple part, but it's just some generic 3rd party item.
Opening it up revealed no nasty surprises: plastics look great there too. Needed to clean up the nicad ooze which fortunately didn't touch the electronics. While I was at it, I removed the UL2320 PRAM battery and will see if I can pick up another this weekend.
Artmix SSD is on it's way!
Nice! Hopefully that one doesnt have the dreaded tunnelvision.
Plus that battery I believe is 3rd party/aftermarket.
On my 180, I removed the battery but kept the battery door. That way there wasnt a gaping hole. With bbrauns new localtalk/ethernet solution, I may re-purpose the battery bay to shoehorn a localtalk to ethernet/wifi bridge.
Plus that battery I believe is 3rd party/aftermarket.
On my 180, I removed the battery but kept the battery door. That way there wasnt a gaping hole. With bbrauns new localtalk/ethernet solution, I may re-purpose the battery bay to shoehorn a localtalk to ethernet/wifi bridge.
Got a link? I saw something about a PB540 wifi solution, but that assumes the presence of an AAUI connector.
I did find his site and (ouch) if I had known he had a SCSI->SD solution, I might've gone that route instead of the Artmix CF adapter.
Its over at mac68k.info in the hardware thread.
Its still in alpha development stage and requires a beaglebone black.
Its still in alpha development stage and requires a beaglebone black.
Nice - I have one, but yours is better condition. Depending how yours has been used/stored, you might find some of the electrolytic caps in the LCD display are nearing end of life and need replacing. I got a set of caps for mine, but the replacement job is not yet top of my to-do list.
Rick
Rick
Found it thanks. Beaglebone must have more computing horsepower than the entire vintage Mac it's supporting!
I haven't opened the screen frame yet, but perhaps I should. I did check the two small aluminum electrolytics on the inverter board, but both checked out okay with low ESR.
RickNel, does your 180 have aluminum electrolytic caps in the LCD housing? I had a look at mine, and didn't see a single one, only tantalum chip capacitors, and all of those check out with good ESR values. In fact, the only 2 aluminum cans in the whole computer seem to be on the inverter board.
I have yet to pull my 180 apart but all the others do in the 1xx series. Maybe not aluminum but leaky caps for sure. Like 9 2.2uf and a couple bigger ones. My 160 I'm waiting for caps from mouser now before it gets done.
I just took apart a 150 (thanks letni) and it has a different screen setup from the others (kinda like an ibook in layout, with the backlight connector on the side of the screen) the caps look like tantalums in there too.