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My favorite one that isn't listed here is the Outbound Systems laptop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbound_Systems My parents got me one in elementary school in the early 90s to help with my learning disabilities. From what I recall they had ripped out the guts of an SE or SE-30 and turned it into a laptop. It ran on camcorder batteries. I've still got it in my basement but can't get it to boot up at all.

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Maybe you should see if one of the retro computer YouTubers might be up for a rare guest computer. Adrian's Digital Basement comes to mind here but he's kind of an Amiga guy.

He's more of a Commodore guy than just an Amiga guy, but having been a long-time subscriber of his, it seems like he'll work on anything and everything. Worth sending him an email asking if he wants it at least; I've done it before and he responds pretty quickly.

Oh I'd definitely be into this... i should ask around.

I strongly second this. Mac84 or Action Retro would be good candidates, they specialize in old Macintoshes.

Or possibly Macintosh Librarian. Or the 8-Bit Guy, as long as no paperclips are involved :)

Adrian does some mac stuff too.

I have an Outbound too! IIRC there's a weird little 7.5v battery that I had to replace to get it to boot up (roughly the diameter of a AA battery, but 1/3 the length) -- maybe check that out?

I think the battery you are referring to is the 6V Sanyo 2CR1/3N which is the "backup battery" in that laptop. It's still widely available.

Thanks! I’ll open it up this week and look at it.

I just looked up the outbound laptop the other day. I saw one on an airplane when I was very young and I could not understand how there was a Mac that had this funny Kanagroo logo on it.

I know they had to pull the ROM from a Mac, I’m not sure what else went into the machine.

I wonder how good that trackpad was. Looks pretty cool. Also, can't help but notice the Control key position, it's right where it was meant to be!

> Introductory price: US $4,000 (equivalent to $9,443 in 2022)

It's wild how expensive laptops used to be

macintosh in these days were niche devices for wealthy professionals with a narrow set of requirements. There’s a reason the company almost died, windows was far cheaper and had better performance with vastly more software for the majority of users. The rest, as they say, is history.

Looks like pre-newton type of system!

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