OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[Adrianne Diane Rutledge]

I don't know much 'bout earlier powerbooks, but I have a friend who's looking at
one, the only one he found on eBay in his price range was the 145d, it seems to
be an early one, from the specs... anyway, anyone here have experience with
what models are good?

-Adrianne

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Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[Doomsday Machine]

Adrianne Diane Rutledge wrote:

> I don't know much 'bout earlier powerbooks, but I have a friend who's looking at
> one, the only one he found on eBay in his price range was the 145d, it seems to
> be an early one, from the specs... anyway, anyone here have experience with
> what models are good?
>

Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously outdated.  It's
fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else.  I guess if you really wanted
to, you could probably load mklinux on it, but that would be some work, cause it
doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't know if it can get ethernet hookups.  I mean,
paying more than 20 bucks for that 'book would be too much.

--Nelson Abramson

--
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the world of demigods and hungry ghosts."
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Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:

> Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously
> outdated.  It's fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else.  I
> guess if you really wanted to, you could probably load mklinux on it,

Umm... MkLinux only works on PPC machines.  That's a 68k.  Can run NetBSD,
though.


> but that would be some work, cause it doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't
> know if it can get ethernet hookups.

Not unless you happen to find one of the old Cabletron Ethernet to SCSI
adapters.  Asante's aren't supported under *BSD for usual corporate
reasons.


David


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Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[Doomsday Machine]

"David A. Gatwood" wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:
>
> > Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously
> > outdated.  It's fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else.  I
> > guess if you really wanted to, you could probably load mklinux on it,
>
> Umm... MkLinux only works on PPC machines.  That's a 68k.  Can run NetBSD,
> though.

Didn't they have a version of mklinux for 68k?  Or maybe that was a link to
the linux/68k project...oh well, it's been a while since I ran mklinux on my
8500 :)

>
>
> > but that would be some work, cause it doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't
> > know if it can get ethernet hookups.
>
> Not unless you happen to find one of the old Cabletron Ethernet to SCSI
> adapters.  Asante's aren't supported under *BSD for usual corporate
> reasons.

Yeah.  I suppose if you purchased the 145b, you could take out a serial port,
hardwire an ethernet port to it, write your own drivers...;-)

--Nelson Abramson

--
"Switch on any television channel and you have entered immediately
the world of demigods and hungry ghosts."
--Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche


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Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:

> "David A. Gatwood" wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:
> >
> > > Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously
> > > outdated.  It's fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else.  I
> > > guess if you really wanted to, you could probably load mklinux on it,
> >
> > Umm... MkLinux only works on PPC machines.  That's a 68k.  Can run NetBSD,
> > though.
> 
> Didn't they have a version of mklinux for 68k?  Or maybe that was a link to
> the linux/68k project...oh well, it's been a while since I ran mklinux on my
> 8500 :)

Yeah, that's a linux/68k project link.


> > > but that would be some work, cause it doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't
> > > know if it can get ethernet hookups.
> >
> > Not unless you happen to find one of the old Cabletron Ethernet to SCSI
> > adapters.  Asante's aren't supported under *BSD for usual corporate
> > reasons.
> 
> Yeah.  I suppose if you purchased the 145b, you could take out a serial
> port, hardwire an ethernet port to it, write your own drivers...;-) 

True, it did have two.  If you're really enterprising, you might be able
to go above 56k....  ;-)


David


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Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

[Tony Mantler]

At 9:42 PM -0600 11/9/99, Adrianne Diane Rutledge wrote:
>I don't know much 'bout earlier powerbooks, but I have a friend who's
>looking at
>one, the only one he found on eBay in his price range was the 145d, it
>seems to
>be an early one, from the specs... anyway, anyone here have experience with
>what models are good?

The PB145 contains a 68k proscessor, and thus can't run any form of PPC
Linux. However, it should do just fine with Linux/Mac68k, with the
exception of the keyboard and mouse, which are as of yet unsupported. More
information can be found at <http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/>.

As for other 68k powerbooks, currently the 190, 520 and 540 are the best
supported models, but that's rather relative. From the sound of your
message, a PPC powerbook would probably be out of your price range.

Cheers - Tony :)


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Tony Mantler         Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire         eek@escape.ca
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada                       http://www.escape.ca/~eek


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