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Re: Connecting an IIgs to an old Macintosh Powerbook 160?
- Subject: Re: Connecting an IIgs to an old Macintosh Powerbook 160?
- From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:11:14 +1200
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Sam Latella <powergs@macgui.com> wrote:
> I have an old Macintosh powerbook 160 that currently does not power up (I
> suspect it's the power adapter plug, I'll need to replace it to find out).
> I know the machine is quite old, I think it has a 68030 processor and runs
> at 25mhz with probably 1meg of memory on board.
MacTracker says 68030, 25 MHz, 4 MB of RAM built in. Maximum RAM is
apparently 14 MB, but it uses a special memory card unique to the
PowerBook 1xx series.
> The question I have is that does this powerbook have appletalk built-in? I
> could not find any specs on it stating it that it did. I would like to turn
> this powerbook into a nice peripheral for the Apple IIgs in my office. Is
> it possible?
According to MacTracker, the PowerBook 160 has two serial ports.
They would be the printer and modem ports, and AppleTalk (LocalTalk)
would have been supported on the printer port. (Later system versions
also allowed it to be moved to the modem port.)
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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz