4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
11:27 a.m.
Tom Uban wrote:
The mac powerbook 150 used a 2.5" IDE drive. It
was low cost 68030
machine, circa 1994.
Yeah, the 150 was one of the 1st to use IDE. The earlier ones used SCSI
2.5" drives from what I recall. I'm not certain which the first model
was that used IDE. Very difficult to obtain these days. Very few
machines used SCSI 2.5" drives, but of those I know that SPARCbooks did.
There are a few SCSI to IDE bridges for low profile 2.5" drives that
hook on to the IDE drives and have a SCSI interface. Those are lots of
fun. :-)
What I really miss is the Duo's and the DuoDock's. I wish modern
notebooks supported something like that as cleanly. IMHO, that was a
brilliant idea. I still have my Duo230 somewhere in a closet + the
parts of the dock, but it's poor keyboard got sticky and no longer
works. Was a nice little machine back in the day.