Old Powerbook- help with a final few hours ?
I have a powerbook duo270C (vintage 1995 or so). I want to get one final thing off of it before retiring it, but am having trouble. Is it hosed or is there hope ? (detail below).
I have not started it in about 10 years, Do disks loose information / SNR over long periods of time ?
Usually, almost nothing happens when I hit the power-on button, but every 10th time or so it makes a sound or screen glitch, and every 100th or so time, it actually starts... but freezes up (mouse stops working) after a few minutes before I can do much with it.
At the moment, it also appears stuck in the dock, and shows no sign of life at all (unlike the above). Running from the dock would be the ultimate objective, because I need HW attached to the dock, but I'll take what I can get.
The context is I wrote a bunch of music with special multi-track program I don't want to re-buy, and just want to play my recordings one last time into an external recorder.
Any insight is appreciated !
Thank you
I have not started it in about 10 years, Do disks loose information / SNR over long periods of time ?
Usually, almost nothing happens when I hit the power-on button, but every 10th time or so it makes a sound or screen glitch, and every 100th or so time, it actually starts... but freezes up (mouse stops working) after a few minutes before I can do much with it.
At the moment, it also appears stuck in the dock, and shows no sign of life at all (unlike the above). Running from the dock would be the ultimate objective, because I need HW attached to the dock, but I'll take what I can get.
The context is I wrote a bunch of music with special multi-track program I don't want to re-buy, and just want to play my recordings one last time into an external recorder.
Any insight is appreciated !
Thank you
Powerbook Duo 270C, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier, Mac OS 7.5 ?
