[geeks] Old Powerbooks available

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:29:50AM -0400, John Lee wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the 1400cs won't run OS X, if only because it is a
> NuBus machine. I've heard stories of Linux being run on it, and
> MkLinux definitely will. NetBSD doesn't support the machine.

There were lots of 1400's The cs model means it has a passive LCD
display. It's quite slow but will work for most things, but I would
not play duke nukem on it. :-)

The CPU is what's important. The lowest speed model, the 117mHz has 
no L2 cache is a good item to give to someone else. The faster models
are worth keeping. If you have 64 meg of ram (the max) then OS 9.1 is
ok on it, if not keep to 8.6 unless you have less than 16 meg, where
7.6 is the one to use. 

I have 3 of them, a 133 cs that I gave to my (then) 8 year old son.
a 133cs with 4m (won't accept more) I use for parts and a G3/233 with
64m and a beautiful TFT display. It happily runs OS 9.1 and with an
original Orinoco card, works wireless. 

The bad thing is the 133cs gets almost 2 hours from a battery, the
G3 with the TFT display gets 45 minutes. 

The nice thing is that the package is smaller and lighter than just about
anything Apple has made since.

 Geoff.
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