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I'm a software guy and my first reaction was the same: "Two words: eBay, Linux". But then it turns out: taking the harddrive out of that Powerbook Duo 280c is
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
I'm a software guy and my first reaction was the same: "Two words: eBay, Linux".
But then it turns out: taking the harddrive out of that Powerbook Duo 280c is kinda sorta a real mess for it requires taking the entire laptop apart (I just looked at an online teardown video of that old Mac laptop).
Now the advantage of eBay+Linux is that it works even if the screen is broken, if the laptop doesn't boot, etc. It works as long as the harddrive still boots.
- ssl-3 2y agoThere's no reason to open the laptop to access the disk from another computer. With a dock, that laptop gains an external SCSI port. And with an external SCSI port, it can boot up in a mode wherein the whole laptop behaves like a standalone SCSI disk -- ready to use with whatever other computer with SCSI from the past 40-ish years that one can muster up.