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This Does Not Compute | Restoring an In-Box Apple PowerBook from 1991! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
I picked up one of Apple's first laptops, a PowerBook 170, that was mostly complete with its original box. And while it doesn't appear to have suffered any abuse, the past 30 years have still taken their toll.

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Sources:
Macworld, December 1991.
MacUser, December 1991.
Data recovery clean room hood photo: sentryair.com/blog/product-review/fume-hoods/portable-clean-room/portable-clean-room-hoods-for-data-recovery

PowerBook 180 tunnel vision photo: imgur.com/gallery/Rt3iUdq?nc=1

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