[rescue] Got me a PowerBook 165c

[Jeff Borisch]

Heh, I've got one of these too. It had been upgraded with a 1GB hard drive
and I think it has 8MB of RAM. I have 7.6.1 that works pretty well. I used
it for email in bed while I had a broken ankle a couple of summers ago.

I snagged one of those SCSI to 10Base-T adapters from the OSU surplus
feeding frenzy* Those PeeCee scrappers had no idea WTF it was.

I think you may be able to DL an appropriate OS from apple. Email me
privately if you need more assistance. I'm sure Mr. Wargo will chime in too.

It may be slow but it's held up better that both of my bosses G3 powerbooks.

*(TM) BSD Bob, all rights reserved.

best,
Jeffrey


s at avoidant.org wrote:

> My mom handed me an Apple PowerBook 165c. Anyone got an OS I can run on
> it? with a 33MHz 68030 and 4M of RAM I'm not expecting anything
> fabulous, but I'll get it running just to add to the collection...
> 
> I know it'll run Apple System 7.1 through 7.6.1. What's best in there?
> Is anything available? Is there anything else that'll run on it? *BSD
> perhaps?
> 
> Is it worth *buying* more RAM to stick in this thing?