Macintosh Portable 5120 Backlit Prototype?

This is quite an odd Portable. It is a 5120, with what appears to be a prototype, or homebrew backlight setup on it. Unfortunately, I can't fire it up because the battery is dead, but I will have another vid once I can get some sort of battery working in it.

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[lobsterbox20]

another another another another another another another another another... ???

Anyway, that aside I cannot wait to see this thing in action!

[general0ne]

@lobsterbox20 Just have to rig up some sort of 6v battery, and it should go. Hasn't been powered up for a good 5 years, though, so I'll have to cross my fingers.

[vwestlife]

Was the repeating "another" from 1:25 to 2:08 in the video intentional?

[general0ne]

@vwestlife No. My computer did that when it was encoding the video for some reason. I still need to mess with the settings on my camcorder and my editing software and figure out why it's doing that.

[CPQ5360]

Interesting. It definitely is backlit, and being model 5120, from an Apple engineer, and having that interesting circuit board design, it could very well be a prototype.

How come you put a random 6V cell in the battery?

[general0ne]

@CPQ5360 Not sure if he was an engineer... he said he "worked for apple" for all I know, he could've been a janitor.

The original battery is 6 volts, and that cell was from an old UPS I tore apart and happened to have it laying around the house, and it fit in the Apple housing pretty good, so I used it. It didn't have much life left in it when I did that around 8 years ago, but it was enough for it to power up. it's totally shot now.

[Shicky256]

finna dur, finna dur, finna dur, finna dur, etc.

[CPQ5360]

@general0ne Ohhhh, okay, first of all, I thought the original battery was 12 volts, second, I thought you had just recently put the cell in, for this video. lol

[cap10323]

@vwestlife no i got it to