portable

Many folks may be unaware of the oddball WorkSlate from Convergent Technologies, a 1983 slab portable with a 6800-family CPU where everything is a spreadsheet. It was a commercial failure after seven months and Convergent took millions of dollars in losses on it. A printer/plotter (with the...

The WiiN-PAD (yes, really, they spell it like that) is the first PowerPC Windows CE system I've ever found. Does anyone know of any others? This is a little handheld slate intended for medical applications with Windows CE 2.12. It has internal flash and a camera for reading barcodes, and it can...

This is a bit of a grab bag, but some of you will remember my DVT prototype Macintosh Portable (happily running with Androda's RAM card). It was formerly used by an Apple district manager and I wanted to back it up and then start digging into what was there. Well, that's all done, and it...

Online, you can find a lot of discussions related to what power brick to use with Macintosh Portable (the original is M5136 7.5V 1.5A), if it has to be exactly 1.5A or can be more and if it’s worth recapping the power supplies. I decided to at least somehow help in those discussions with...

I happen to own three Macintosh Portables and I was looking for a way to charge their batteries every now and then, without unpacking the computers from their safe storage. In short, I needed an external charger for Mac Portable batteries. Today, I would like to share my design of a 3d-printed...

Hello there, My partner in crime @Action Retro brought over his Mac Portable, the SCSI bus wasn't happy on the unit, but we wanted to see if the HD had any data on it. Thankfully his portable would boot from a floppy. I now have the Portable's hard drive here and a 34-pin to 50-pin adapter...

New Project! As I was browsing through Hartmut Eslingers book, “Keep it Simple” I wondered how cool it would be to recreate this laptop bookstyle computer into a working machine. Then (a while back) inspired by Adrian’s youtube video, and how he managed to get a external screen working with...