[stroudtx]

Or maybe a really nice 180 or 190.

[Agurri]

Man, I don't think you will find these here. Try to look on Super-eBay. Its the A for older computers ....

[Nobody]

Nope, but I have a Pismo I was gonna sell.

[stroudtx]

No luck on eBay right now. I hear they are pretty rare. Thanks on the offer for a Pismo, but I want a 68k version, just for kicks. I already have a 12" G4 1 Ghz to do my real work on.

[Agurri]

Might help ?
Ebay1
Ebay2
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Well, this is just a suggestion but I see alot of parts on eBay, why dont you try to build your own laptop ..... what ... it could cost you as much as 50 $ /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Just for kicks. haha

[stroudtx]

I saw the 180's. They are a dime a dozen on eBay. I was going to bid on one but it had a pink trackball. The others were not the orginal owners and knew nothing of the history of the units. I'm looking for the guy who bought it new and it's been biding it's time in a closet somewhere for 10 years. I told my wife, I want to start a mini-Mac musem of sorts. She didn't buy it. I still want a 550c, just to see the best and last 68k Powerbook Apple made. I bet it fly with OS 8.1. Too bad you can't run OS X on that puppy...j/k /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[MacTiger]

I am the original owner of a 180! I still keep it for the memory and history. I think it was the first color LCD right? I remember buying it for I think $3300, can you imagine!

[SeaFox]

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I still want a 550c, just to see the best and last 68k Powerbook Apple made.

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The 550c wasn't the last 68k notebook. It was the Powerbook 190cs

Whoa! Check this out: eBay
All you'd have to find is a power adapter.

[stroudtx]

Yep, I know.. but the 550 had the only full 68040 chip that had the FPU. It should be faster than the 190cs. I might go ahead though a find a nice 190. Like the previous post, I think I paid $3000+ plus for my 180. I don't recall what I did with it. Did Apple have an exchange program to get into a PB5300? I ended up with one of those and then gave it to my Dad. It was super slow. I don't remember my PB 180 being slow at all. Ah, the lure of old technology. Good thing about it is the older you go, the cheaper it gets. Kinda the opposite of trying to stay cutting edge...LOL

[stroudtx]

If I get a 180, is there anyway to connect it to Ethernet?

[Agurri]

Yeah ....
http://resnet.uorego...st.html#ppcport

Belong to this site, you can use a SCSI port Adapter. I haven't done any research on that port .... but it will come /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[aliasfox]

Hey, while you're looking for a 550c, try finding a 10th Anniversary Powerbook 170- rarest Mac that ever made production. Or maybe try finding the Power Mac 9700 prototype. or the Powerbook 2400/240.
These are all units that are practically impossible to find- scratch that. The owners of these machines aren't about to give up their rare machines. They won't be cheap, either.
Perhaps if you went to a Japanese website- wasn't the 550c an Apple Japan release?

[stroudtx]

Yes. The 550 was only released in Japan. I've tried to search the www for one and got many web sites that I could not understand. Google offered to translate a couple, but it didn't help much. I would love to get my hands on any of those you mentioned. I keep eBay looking, but I don't hold out much hope. I bid $10 on a working 180...I bet the shipping cost is 2x that. LOL.

[aliasfox]

Hey- two more models to look for: Macintosh TV and the Power Mac 5400 Director's Edition- both black, both very limited edition.
Of course, you could also simply go after the easiest to find limited edition: 20th anniversary Mac- Always one on eBay.