My first Mac, a PowerBook G3 "Wall Street", shown with a CD for size comparison. When closed and facing the user, the Apple logo on the case is right-side up, but when the user opens it up for use, the logo is upside down. Later generations of the PB and MacBooks have the logo upside down when not in use but right-side up when in use.
The many ports available for the Mac back then - audio, ADB, Ethernet, SCSI, VGA, S-Video. I remember buying a $100 specialized printer cable so I could use the PB G3 with an HP LaserJet 4L, which back then only had parallel port.
Side view of the PB G3 opened at about 45 degrees.
The PB G3 opened at past 90 degrees.
The PB G3 can lie flat on its back. I remember laying in bed using the computer in this position. It was not comfortable.
The PB G3 up close. "Macintosh PowerBook G3", with the rainbow Apple logo, too.
Compared to today's unibody Macbook, the touchpad is so tiny. A U.S. penny takes up most of the center of the pad!
Like a first child, the PB G3 was showered with expansions. Shown here are USB and FireWire expansion PCMIA cards plus the VST Superdrive, which can read both its own 120-MB disks and standard floppy disks. Slow, but usable.
For nostalgia purpose, the phone jack is also shown. How did I get anything done back then without broadband access?
The PowerBook G3 still boots up as long as it is connected to AC power. The original battery then the replacement one both died.
It was able to run OS X but it was painful. I didn't upgrade it much.
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