Recently, an acquaintance told me that when the early PowerBooks (145, 170,
165, etc.) were in popular use, a third-party manufacturer made a
"battery-sized" AC adapter that would go right in where the NiCad battery
pack would fit, and used just a standard thin laptop-style AC cord. Does
anyone remember this? And if so, has anyone seen one available recently?
My batteries expired a long time ago, and I use my 170 on AC all the time,
but the rather large external "brick" is a slight annoyance, and since my
battery bay is now empty anyway, it would seem an ideal place to put the
whole adapter.
As an alternate plan, is is possible to build such a thing? I'm pretty good
with a soldering iron, but I'm no circuit designer! I have a feeling that
the necessary AC step-down transformer would be too big to fit... but what
do I know? :-)
Bob
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