Done. http://homepage.mac.com/jackgallemore/PhotoAlbum20.html
The SCSI pinout is at http://www.antinode.org/mac/port_scsi.html
My Portable is a great machine and will outperform the Plus and SE
(it's got 9 MB RAM!)...of course, my SE is a dual-floppy so it isn't a
real fair race.
Jack
On Aug 19, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Jeff Walther wrote:
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:50:28 -0500
From: Richard Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mac Portable
Just got my "new" Mac Portable in. It's pretty compact. May we talk
about it here or will that result in my shoestrings being tied
together and my garage door duct taped shut?
I have been having a bit of curiosity about the Mac Portable
recently. I don't have one, nor do I especially want one, but I do
have Outbound Laptop Model 125s. The similarities in some parts of
the design are curiously similar, such that I've developed a desire
to see the logic board of a Mac Portable. E.g. there's an unused
HD15 port which was going to be a sort of digital video out port on
both of them, so I'm told/have read.
If someone has his or hers dissected at some point and would be kind
enough to do a scan of the front and back, I'd appreciate it. Better
yet, I would love to get my hands on a dead logic board some time
(don't need a live one to satisfy my curiosity).
A minor irony is that about ten years ago I bought a large lot of
Apple Service Parts at auction and two Mac Portable logic boards were
included but I sold them to a company that specialized in Mac
Portable support and repair almost immediately. Back then I had no
particular interest in them.
How is your hard drive? I had one of those in that lot of parts too.
It had a funky cable on it, but it looked as if it would not be so
difficult to build an adapter from a standard SCSI connector to that
connector, if one had a Mac Portable hard drive to work from as an
example.
An interesting experiment might be to built such an adapter cable
(Mac Portable drive to SCSI connector) and then see if you can fit a
Low Profile ATA drive with an Acard 7220U adapter in there. Or
better yet, 2.5" ATA drive => 2.5" to 3.5" adapter=> 722U ATA to SCSI
adapter=> SCSI to Mac Portable adapter. I suspect that this would
actually save power and weight.
Jeff Walther
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