On 2002-03-27 02:40, "dave lamothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a Mac novice and was recently given a PowerBook 520. I bought a power
> adapter through eBay for it and was able to get it up and running. Seems to
> have a 25 MGH Motorola processor 8.1 OS and a maybe a 120 MB hard Drive.
Sounds about right. The 520 series have 25 MHz 68LC040's, the 540's have 33
MHz CPUs.
> The more I discover about it the more intrigued I get, I just ordered a AAUI
> transceiver to try to connect it to a RJ45 then to my internet cable. I was
> wondering if I should get an external 9GB SCSI Hard Drive that I see all over
> EBay, but then I need to hunt down a SCSI adapter from my Power book.
Well, that shouldn't be too hard, they're still pretty common.
> I wondered did they ever make a docking station for this model.
Yes, Pilottech, the people that made docks for just about any PowerBook
model, made one for the 500 series, too. No longer available from them,
though, so you'll have to hunt one down second-handed.
> The problem I see is that I have no room on my hard drive to install Netscape
> or Internet explorer without using external storage. Is this worth the
> learning experience or am I taking a laptop and converting it to a desktop?
Well, since the PowerBook 500 series was a major breakthrough in portable
computing because it was the first portable to offer features comparable to
a contemporary desktop machine, that shouldn't powe too much of a problem.
> I wondered what places are out there with downloads (preferably free) All I
> have on this is MS Word5.1.
The regular Mac download sites should be able to provide you with all the
software you'll need. Try some PowerBook sites, too, for PowerBook-specific
stuff.
The 500 series ("Blackbird") is quite a popular PowerBook, so there are
plenty of web sites dedicated to it. Google should get you started on that
track.
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