<div>If you want to buy a battery, I think I have a bunch of Duo batteries I'm not using anymore.</div>
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<div>Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:59:00 -0800<br>From: Richard Chisholm Jr <<a href="mailto:sweetbearcub@gmail.com">sweetbearcub@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."<br>
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<p>Good luck on reviving your 280c. Sadly I have no useful troubleshooting<br>advice to offer you, other than a reminder that old hard drives lubricant<br>material sometimes gums up, stopping the motor from being able to spin up<br>
the drive due to the friction. This phenomenon was known as 'stiction'. In<br>some cases, the drive can be coaxed to life by moving it to a warmer<br>environment, or by the application of proper percussive maintenance. If so,<br>
get all your data off it and replace it ASAP, as it will fail again.</p>
<p>I'm still amazed my Duo 280c runs. It looks like someone took it out of 1994<br>and put it in a time capsule, complete with maxed RAM (40 MB total), a<br>charger, a MiniDock and 3.5" disk drive. All it needs is a battery. It still<br>
boots and runs, MacOS 7.1.1. Now, if I only had something productive for it<br>to do, beyond sitting there looking pretty..</p>
<p>Someday soon I'll probably work on getting it a battery and replacing the<br>hard drive with a CompactFlash card, to make it more power efficient,<br>cooler, and more reliable. I know it's only a matter of time before the hard<br>
drive succumbs to senility; it's already ~15 years old.</p>
<p>I wonder if these machines will be collector's items in a few more years, or<br>if they will fade into obscurity?</p></blockquote>