Talk:PowerBook 500 series

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[edit] First paragraph plagiarized from Low End Mac?

The first paragraph appears to be largely plagiarized from the Low End Mac web pages documenting the 500 series. See PowerBook 520c. In addition, all over the internet, there is mention that the PowerBook 500 series was the first computer to use PCMCIA. This is simply not true. The PowerBook 500 series came out on May 16, 1994. According to a COMPUTE! article from May 1993 [1], there were computers already out that used PCMCIA slots. I'm going to re-edit the page to fix both.

Ehurtley 21:19, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

There should be some mention of the 550C not being released in the US, in this article.

T-wood1130

[edit] I will be expanding on this from my old web page.

Decades ago (that long?!?!) I wrote a long page that was Co-hosted by O'Gradys Power Page, which has since combined with another and dropped my original work.

I had my work on Compuserve since first written, and is still there. No I will transfer the bulk of it to the Wiki.

I have 2 of the 500 series, serviced about a dozen of them over time, did numerous upgrades to my 500 as well, and played with the PC card cage to do other tricks. --Flightsoffancy (talk) 17:07, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History discussion

My telling of the history may not be precise, so corrections to the time line are welcome, but please post it here sources and events. Also, additions or notes are wanted, fill in the gaps. TY --Flightsoffancy (talk) 22:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)