Vintage Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo Retro Laptop •400Mhz 320MB 10GB Wifi •MacOS 9 For Sale

Vintage Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo Retro Laptop •400Mhz 320MB 10GB Wifi •MacOS 9
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Vintage Apple PowerBook G3 Pismo Retro Laptop •400Mhz 320MB 10GB Wifi •MacOS 9:
$299.00

ABOUT:For your consideration is another piece from my collection of retro gaming systems, a classic Turn-Of-The-Millennium Powerbook G3 "Pismo", the perfect system for a retro Mac and A/V tech enthusiast due to its internal Firewire *and* USB (for compatibility with vintage cameras, camcorders, external enclosures, DAW systems, and modern USB devices and thumb drives). This clean system includes its original drive, optical bay, and battery, as was as original charger.
Please remember that, while I am a retro tech enthusiast, I am not an expert on the specifics of any given piece of retro technology. Some small components may be missing that I am not familiar with, so please ask any questions BEFORE offerding. This is a piece of VINTAGE 1999 technology, offerding on it constitutes an interest to tinker with the understanding of nearly guaranteed random hardware issues and unexpected hurdles common to retro technology.

This Powerbook includes the classic "yo-yo" 45W Apple charger, tested to work
Also included is a vintage Microsoft optical mouse, perfect for retro / TESTING:This Powerbook is in overall very good shape for the age, with only very minor scuffing to the chassis and solid screen hinges. Keyboard was tested working, The chassis has a standard small crack below the mouse button, and the front right screw stand-off is broken, allowing you to lift the corner of the palmrest (see last 2 photos). Lower chassis is missing the original rubber feet and has gooey aftermarket feet installed. Trackpad and mouse button tested working. Sound tested working. USB tested working. Firewire tested working with an external hard drive.
This Mac was restored with MacOS 9.2.2 and restored with a large collection of apps and games shown in the photos above (Marathon!) Laptop was tested to boot multiple apps, play games, and listen to MP3s using SoundJam MP and iTunes 2. The Kaleidoscope OS skinning app was installed along with my complete collection of Kaleidoscope schemes from high school in the late 1990s, curating this computer as a perfect time capsule of is a used, vintage PC that is guaranteed to arrive as described and photographed, but offered otherwise ASIS for enthusiast collecting. It is not a modern computer and may require tinkering to findcompatiblecomponents and get some tasks fully functioning. I am offering this unit to another enthusiast with theunderstanding that the buyer is willing toundertake responsibility for the many repair and maintenance variables that come with antique computer components including such delicate tasks as hardware repair and maintenance of a 24 year old system, and more simple stuff like getting all the vintage abandonware software running, all part of the fun of vintage computers! Thanks for looking!
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