OT: PowerBook processor

[Terry Barnum]

Thank you Jeffrey. I appreciate your willingness to help.

I thought for sure that we Xtension folks, keepers of the Mac's that  
Time Forgot, would have a spare Wallstreet.

-Terry


On May 13, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Jeffrey Lomicka wrote:

> This reminds me of when, back in my Atari ST days, somebody came to  
> me with a dead 20MB SCSI hard drive, and wanted to know if there  
> was anything I could do to get his data.  I looked at the drive,  
> and realized I knew somebody that had the same model drive.   
> Presuming it was a logic problem not an HDA problem,  I called up  
> the second guy, and asked "Can I borrow your disk drive, back it  
> up, take it apart to remove the logic card, put your card on  
> somebody else's drive, attempt recover his data, then put your  
> drive back together again"? In an amazing act of trust, he said  
> "yes", and I did exactly that, got back all the data on the first  
> guys drive, and the second guy's drive still worked when I was  
> done.  'phew.  If I still had a Wallstreet, it would be on the  
> way.  Would a 5300ce help? :-)
>
>> Is there a kind soul with an unused Walllstreet PowerBook that  
>> they wouldn't mind lending out the processor card for a day? I've  
>> been maintaining Mac's for over 10 years and am very comfortable  
>> installing and removing components in a safe and static free way.  
>> Alternatively, I could send someone with a Wallstreet my dad's  
>> internal drive and the Sonnet software to copy the ROM info.

Terry Barnum
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