I wonder how many on this forum actually ever had one? I know that I felt it was the best decision at the time, coming out of The Dark Times right before the second coming of Mr. J…
I had a radius for a few weeks, hated it
power pc with nubus, cpu soldered to the logic board, and every single peice of it was rivited to the case so you could not change hard dr…
Hello. I wanted to see what others thing of the mac clones. Any particular favorites? Mine is my PowerTower Pro. Its a hilarious fusion of mac and beige PC. Its pretty cool, with a…
Unfortunately macgreg was taken on MacTalk
The iMacs are very tough too - my 4 year old son inserted three CD-ROMS into a slot load drive at once - I extracted them all and th…
(btw I am gregh from MacTalk...)
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Oh hey, I had no idea you were on MacTalk. I'm over there with you and Byrd as well, same name as here.
Really nice little …
First, the good news. I just got a new Apple IIe for free from a friend! It's got a printer, color monitor, and two disk drives.
Now, the bad. The power supply shorted out within …
My Retrochallenge blog will be at:
http://conceitedjerk.tripod.com/retro09.html
Nothing's there yet, will have something up (likely) tomorrow! :b&w:
68kMLADevelopmentby conceitedjerkTue, 30 Jun 2009 - 20:29
You could use it as extra processing for re encoding videos and such. Or as a remote iTunes player.
Or extra processing for someone else. Check out Folding@Home.
68kMLAHardwareby ChristopherTue, 30 Jun 2009 - 15:07
So I've got this Quicksilver that I've had for quite sometime now, but unfortunately, its spent more time occupying my closet floor than being used. What is this thing good to use …
As the others have stated Alkaline, NiMH and Nicad batteries are mostly harmless, unless your handling large amounts of juice over long periods of time, scrub down good with hot wa…
cool, I went to my dad's house and got his "the applesoft tutorial", which has been sitting in the same drawer since his apple //e was brand new
except for a tiny wrinkle on the d…
68kMLADevelopmentby OsgeldTue, 30 Jun 2009 - 00:01
Oh yes, I am ready to get started. I have been studying the "Programming the 6502" book which I obtained just for this project.
I now know the equivalent of Applesoft's PEEK, POKE…
68kMLADevelopmentby Dog CowMon, 29 Jun 2009 - 22:51
The PRAM battery is a NiCd, so no need to worry about lithium. However, cadmium is none too good for humans (and nickel isn't benign, either). Casual exposure is unlikely to be a p…
I managed to find a PowerBook Video adapter on ebay for a very affordable $3 ($9 with shipping). The item came in its original 1992 Apple packaging and worked out of the box with m…
68kMLAHardwareby thinkdifferentMon, 29 Jun 2009 - 21:55
Both seem to have sucky optical drives - neither iMac likes booting from these. So it's time to drag my old FW DVD burner, and see how it fares. I suspect I'll be able to get a r…
68kMLAHardwareby NeverGoBack88Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 15:56