{"id":114,"date":"2005-01-30T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/01\/powerbook_5300c\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:35:03","slug":"powerbook_5300c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/01\/powerbook_5300c\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerbook 5300c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2005\/01\/ice_storm\/\">ice storm<\/A> entry, my Powerbook 520c died and I figured out the problem with the Powerbook 5300c adapter. I went to Radio Shack and bought a pack of butt connectors (despite what it sounds like they are plastic-coated metal tubes that you crimp on to wires) and was able to connect the wires to a standard power adapter tip that came with my Recoton Universal Car Adapter power supply. It is surprising that Apple would settle for a standard power adapter tip for one of their pieces of hardware. I got the adapter crimped on, tested the polarity twice, and hooked it up. The laptop, which probably hasn&#8217;t started in five years or more, made some awful beeping noises, and started right up. And the clock was only a little over a year off, stating that it was 1\/1\/04.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt seems to work okay. I have everything from my old Mac backed up on zip disks and the zip drive seems to work fine with the 5300c. Now what I want to do is take all my archives of files, most of which are in ClarisWorks and put bring them over to ClarisWorks on the PC. Then I can convert them to Word or Excel or whatever. I never did get around to doing that with the 520.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing from it is the 520 had an internal modem. The 5300 doesn&#8217;t. Instead it has PC card slots, but I don&#8217;t have a PC Card modem. I wonder if Jeb has an old one lying around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my ice storm entry, my Powerbook 520c died and I figured out the problem with the Powerbook 5300c adapter. I went to Radio Shack and bought a pack of butt connectors (despite what it sounds like they are plastic-coated metal tubes that you crimp on to wires) and was able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/01\/powerbook_5300c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Powerbook 5300c&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}