Re: Connecting an IIgs to an old Macintosh Powerbook 160?

[powergs@macgui.com (Sam Latella)]

Thanks David,

That clears up alot, and now the IIgs will have a new peripheral device
attached to it.

Just need to replace the bad powep plug.

Thanks


David Empson wrote:
> 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.)
>