Restoring Apple's Tiny Laptop From 1992!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2021
- Today we're going to be cleaning up and restoring a broken Apple Powerbook Duo 230 laptop from 1992. It also came with the Duo Dock Plus, which also needs a repair. Let's begin :) #apple #laptop #restoration
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Powerbook Duo 230 Specifications:
33MHz Motorola 68030 CPU
12MB Ram
9.1" Grayscale Display (640x400)
120MB SCSI Hard Disk (Before Upgrade) - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
His restorations are good. He never forgets to clean the laptop with some eucalyptus oil.
100th like.
"Eucalyptus Oiilll"
244th Like!
he has a smart strategy.
Yep, and can’t forget about that legendary eucalyptus oil
This looks like something a lot of enthusiasts would love to see - the 8 bit guy in particular! Great find!
The 8-bit guy would fry the laptop trying to replace the power supply's cable with paper clips...
@@zoomer8367 lol
The 8 bit guy is more interested in older hardware
here is the video I'm referencing if anyone's interested (it happens at the 4:37 minute mark) th-cam.com/video/Wh2OCBZpzZ8/w-d-xo.html
@@zoomer8367 for how long do you guys will keep referencing this? Forget about it, it's over a year already.
Working in a university after I graduated, I was allowed to take one of these home at night and on weekends. In the early 90's, this was cutting edge stuff. The actual concept of portable computing was still fairly new and it felt amazing at the time.
Thanks for watching 🙂 One day I may also replace the capacitors (when I learn how to solder properly). If anyone has any info on replacing / repairing the battery, feel free to let me know!
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Omg second reply!!!! Also you have 6 LIKES ONLY!!???
@@therobloxianstar4689 here before this blows 🆙
@@woodentrainseriesofficial9511 xD
It´s a NIMH battery so probably pretty easy todo.
You can get new cells with solder taps applied.
They can have a slightly different capacity as long as they´re the same physical size as the original ones (obviously).
Maybe you can share a few photos of the inside, then i could figure out the arrangment of the cells and maybe the size you need.
There are a few common types.
Perfect way to end the week! The technological advancements we've made over the last 29 years is simply astonishing!
What channel member are you?
And a lot of people probably didn't even know these things were available, or at least what these catalog pictured things were all about. Too expensive to buy anyway. I know that's how it was for me. but i was bit young maybe still on a paper route.
My goodness that is a nice looking Duo
You make my stressful day of exam by another great restoration
I was honestly not expecting a laptop like that! It's amazing how technology has moved on from the early 1990s!
My colleague at work had one of those. It was a technological marvel at the time (although those trackballs were pretty awful).
Imagine 32mb of storage
I love the design choice of Apple in the early 90's. Makes me teleport to some old university in the US and using the BBS, stuff like that makes me happy and your videos work like some sort of escapism for me so I'm happy to see new videos of yours whenever you upload them.
Yes even though the price is bullshit at he time. I like how Apple laptops at the time have a good design
7 minutes 22 seconds without the eucalyptus oil, i was getting worried
i love watching your restoration videos! it’s so satisfying to see old tech products being brought back to life.
I remember stumbling across this thing when cleaning out our house long ago, and never thought much about it until watching this video and being reminded of it. I definitely would have loved tinkering inside it if I had the same amount of knowledge when I was a kid as I do now.
Made me smile seeing this restored and used, been a long time since i've seen these. Great work!
How amazing! It’s so cute to see this PowerBook Duo.
I would like to congratulate you; throughout this video you have acted with determination, enthusiasm and honesty and for these reasons, all of France adores you.
Had a pair of these, along with the Duo Dock, back in the 1990s. Some of my favorites I've ever had.
Bro you’re so close to 200k! Congrats! Can’t wait till you get there! (You’re a great guy)
Love these vintage Apple videos. You will always have my respect.
I always find your videos so satisfying to watch.
Love this video!!
Crazy that you upgraded the hard drive with MicroSD!!
Well done, as always - your work is inspirational - I have learned much - keep it up!
Sadly I threw a lot of my Apple collection out before TH-cam existed, I really wish I had taken a lot more pictures of my kit! I still have this model though along with the powered dock & a 250 model. I might have to start my own channel!
This is one of the best channels around. Ancient tech is just really cool and its nice to learn about it!
The computer has some nice “trackpad”
Trackball*
@@mariosanchezolmedo6898 hence the quote-on-quote, “trackpad”.
One of your best videos!!! This was so cool 🤩 thanks for what you do!!
My jaw dropped as soon as I saw Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat. I’m old, so I spent many, many hours playing that game back in the mid nineties. So many fond memories. Great video!
Hello Psivewri i just got your channel membership you are awesome! i hope to watch your videos for many years to come :DD
yet another great restoration!
Excellent video and a fun restoration. Thanks for sharing.
You made my night I guess 😅😅😅
Awesome! I'm so glad the SCSI2SD worked!
Did you know: The displays on the 68030 Duo line are swappable. If you want to make your 230 a color Duo, you can swap in the active-matrix color screen from a 270c. It'll be a frankenstein machine with no visible nameplate (since the 230 has its nameplate on the screen, and the 270c has its nameplate on the keyboard upper)
Or, of course, if you find a 270c these days, you could restore that instead. 😂
Ooohhhh things I did in the early 2000s that I now regret....
Anyway, thanks for the video and the painstaking restoration! These were super cool little machines. Now all you need is the PowerPC version: the Duo 2300c. It'll fit right in your existing dock!
Best video yet! Such a cool laptop and dock
The grey parts are yellowed too! They should be a cool blueish grey :) love the dock though. Imagine having a large hard drive and two NuBus cards in there! Desktop power at home and laptop portability on the go!
Great job on the restore!
love it. keep up the good work
I love watching your video I love retro tech its so interning to see all different types of tech from 200s and 90s I love it
This was great, thank you!
Cool creative video, great job!
Great job man, respect !
I always loved this concept.
Cool!!! And yeah, man. You can't have too many SCSI2SDs (or Floppy EMUs!) hanging around!
Nice work!
I loved that "bruh" at 3:05
amazing video, cheers from Brazil
what an amazing piece from apple, cheers for the video. greetigs from nova scotia!
I owned this back when it came out, and I absolutely loved it!
Very nice restoration!
wow this brought back some good memories!! I was 8 years old when my father brought one of these home that sat in the lost and found at his job for years, I LOVED that thing, took it apart many times!! I was probably 7 when I first got it. Now I remember what got me obsessed with apples products
I like this channel , thanks for your efforts 👍🏻
thc goes really well w ur vids
you are very good
at this keep it up
Great video! I love my 280c, probably my favourite Mac in my whole collection. Would love to get my hands on the dock. I have a SCSI2SD ready to install.
What a cool laptop and dock. Another cool video
Thank you for the links! I have a Powerbook Duo 2300c that I've been wanting to get working again for years. I already have the blank disks and external floppy drives. Fingers crossed!
Definitely looks like a must-have for Action Retro.
That drive spinning sounds like Mr. Crabs running lmao
Wow looks good
Great video!
Looks great!
This is awesome!
I love your videos!
Nice to know someone is also working hard on a PowerBook restoration. Im currently working on a way to restore a PowerBook 190.
Great Job
OMG. This is IT video! I will happily watch. 😊
Just discovered your channel and love it, suuuuuubbed.
Watching this video this is a amazing machine!
Também gosto muito de restaurar máquinas antigas .
Parabéns ótima restauração 😁.
Nice to see you again, the best scavenger youtuber Psivewri.
AMAZAING
The DuoDock is awesome!
im happy to see you giving credit and links without being sponsored, sweet
This video is so cool.
I remember the duo & duodock- I had one ! Superb bit of kit, back in the day :-)
5:38 - Glad to see some good ol' Woolies cling wrap being put to good use
Didn't know Apple laptops in the early 90s could be this wild
Another nice video, you got a great piece of history for less than 50, you are lucky !
That duo dock is pretty awesome 😎
cool vid man
Older tech is cool i just hope there will be videos about commodore's computers
Laptops have come along way since the 1990s. Some 1990s USA TV shows show kids using laptops running DOS or Windows 3.11
3:04 Nathan: the computer is working
Computer: *sike*
My first laptop was a PowerBook Duo 210. I loved that thing, and just how miniscule it was. Other than my G3-400 Lombard, all of my portable Macs have been the smallest available at the time.
Biggest dock i've ever seen, its amazing how far we have come in terms of docks for laptops, they are like the size of a pack of gum now.
You are the tech guy. You can fix things well.
I never forget those little PowerBooks! I was in 8th grade at the time.
great video - yeah, Chuck Yeager's air combat - It's a great day for flying or there's no second place in air combat ;-)
The feeling of this new "paradise of hardware" was just better and never seen before back then.
There was the time (2009-2011) I admired all Apple devices... I got my first MacBook in 2009 - the black one :) Then in 2011 my first MacBook Pro, Ipod, Iphone, Ipads .... But sadly, being an engineering professional, I cant use it since then as all soft is windows or Linux based. But what i can really say - old Apple devices were much better then those we see now in Apple store (quality, feeling, assembly). Your restorations - I watched them all - you do the great job, giving them a new life again.... Thank you for good videos and good mood.
That B&W screen looks better then i imagined.
Totally agree! 8-bit guy will contact you soon… I guess!! Thank you for the video!
Yes i love your vids
Great video
Thanks
Really cool machine, found working one in our server room :D
Its never a psivewri video without some eucalyptus oil!
Opening the box with a "Do you call this a knife?"- knife! 😄
Nice, I reassembled one years ago, never got around to finding a power brick that would work. I guess I should.
I repaired few of those, few notes: The original HDs can be repaired a lot of times as the rubber stop on the heads gets all sticky and the heads won't move out of the original position. Magnets on the heads need to be taken off and the rubber stop replaced. Also these laptops were from a era when manufacturers used capacitors prone to leaking. So if you want to preserve the machine, the recap is a good idea. There are some capacitors in the display itself that are also usually leaking and cause drifting contrast or other issues on these laptops.
bro this looks so good for 1992
3:03 LOLLL