
I found this PowerBook 170 a few years ago on eBay. Put a bid of 50£, forgot about it and discovered after a day that I won . The laptop is in great shape but the screen after some use gets darker around the corners, a well known issue with such old active matrix panels.
Apparently this Mac has been used in some university, I’ve backed up the content of the hard drive labelled “Eloise” and installed a fresh copy of MacOS 7.5 on the partially glitchy hard drive.
This configuration has an expanded 6Mb of ram and a 40Mb hard drive. With a 25Mhz 68030 cpu this is by far the fastest Mac classic I own.




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