Old PowerBook 170

Martyr

i found a Macintosh Powerbook 170 in a skip recently, its only worth about 10-15 euro from some prices on ebay.

it seems to work fine, except there is no o/s on it, and a picture of a removeable disc flashes on the screen whenever it starts.

i've little knowledge of macs, so i was wondering what operating system would
install on this? and how would i go about it.

any suggestions?

thanks

soph

Hi, just looked it up there, looks like you can install - 7.0.1-7.5.1,7.5.3-7.6.1

Martyr

OK, thanks soph for info, i probably should have looked that up myself

luckat

Oooh, lucky you - the 170 has a slider, so you can actually set the brightness of the screen and *use it outdoors*. Envy!

Hugh_C

luckat wrote:

Oooh, lucky you - the 170 has a slider, so you can actually set the brightness of the screen and *use it outdoors*. Envy!

I've still got an old PowerBook 145 in a cupboard somewhere - dunno if it still works though...

I think I have the system (7.?) disks for it...

SouperComputer

Apple have released OS 7 for a free download, have a google for it and you can get the disk images frim apple's FTP

[edit] i have system 6 images if you want them [/edit]