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!