I have a PowerBook 100 with a dead drive. It's my first laptop, and I want to keep it for posterity.
I have a PowerBook 190 with a good drive. It means nothing to me.
I've been trying to find out if the drives are swappable, but the interwebs are failing me. (Or perhaps I'm failing at the interwebs.)
Help me Apple Discussions Community. You're my only hope!
From what the datebase at http://mactracker.ca shows, among vintage/obsolete PowerBooks,
the PowerBook 190/190s utilizes an IDE kind of hard drive interface technology while older 100
shows an earlier SCSI 40-pin. This slight database does not tell the voltage requirement or
the compatibility of one set of parts to the other machine, either way. They are different enough.
Another place to look for information (since mactracker is a download application) would be
online at http://everymac.com since they have a fairly good and accessible info base there.
On the face of it, the hard drives do not appear to be interchangeable; and I don't see a reference
so far, if there had been an adaptable way to exchange them internally. Some models of older
portable Mac were able to be adapted to use later technologies such as camera memory/flash
cards instead of hard drives. However what I'd seen about that did not go into the vintage of yours.
Perhaps someone will reply who actually has these two models and has restored some. Another
site with a little bit of info online had been http://lowendmac.com yet going forward there's less...
See if these LowEndMac pages about the early PoweBook 100. 190, & etc. help: (note links do fail)
http://lowendmac.com/pb/index.shtml
http://lowendmac.com/2014/powerbook-history-before-the-g3/
PS: the answer may be in the information found in this last link.
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
Timed out, but found this bit which may be of interest, from the PowerBook 100 blue linked page
within the previously mentioned last page URL in earlier post:
"Although the PowerBook 100 uses a standard 2.5″ SCSI hard drive, there just isn’t room
for a 2.5″ IDE drive plus a SCSI-to-IDE adapter (the solution for most SCSI PowerBooks).
You can only use a real SCSI hard drive in the PB 100." -- as seen in this page:
http://lowendmac.com/1991/powerbook-100/
And about the PowerBook 190: (see live blue URL link)
"The last 68K-based PowerBook was the PowerBook 190. It features a 33 MHz 68LC040 processor."
Anyway, there are bits and pieces of info, here and there. 😎
A good comparison of early PowerBook pre-G3 models, on this Everymac.com page
from Original Apple Portable (15 pounds?) to the PoweBook 5300ce/117...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/index-powerbook.html
{Also in the LowEndMac page http://lowendmac.com/mail/06/0615.html info,
in the page where a PB 190 article discusses the use of Compact Flash with
adapters in SCSI computers, and in IDE, also. Not sure if that'd work in PB100
due to internal constraints and viability of the necessary hardware to fit the idea.}
So, maybe these could be useful.
Good luck in any event! 🙂
Thanks for the help. I figured as much, but on the off chance, it was worth asking.
You've saved me from hunting down a hex 6 screwdriver. 🙂
Glad to hear at least the screwdriver budget is still intact...!
Oh speaking of walrus, during daylight hours here's some:
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/walrus-cam-round-island
Not sure if they carry their own illumination in a spectrum we can see. 😝
Will a PowerBook 190 hard drive work in a PowerBook 100?
