Awesome. LOL I needed that quote tonight. I THINK those came from one of my old friends that used to run a local Apple II repair business. He was going to dumpster them (they w…

When archaeologists discover the ruins of your house, they'll be like "WTF did he have so many Disk ][ drives?!"

Here's a few pics of some of my older conquests. I've included a few pics of the basement double tier area... Feel free to guess at what some of the stuff is. { "li…

Nice score as well! There used to be a Volunteers of America in Galloway, OH that had a separate computer store in it. IT was like walking into heaven. They shut it down because…

Nice score! Finding little gadgets like that cheaply is always fun, especially things like those Netgear powerline modules. I've always found the idea interesting and have wanted…

Not so much direct Mac hardware, but this sure is making my PM9600/350 and 8500/G3 450 happy. Que Firewire CDRW external drive - Minus power supply - Repinned the power supply con…

Did you ever figure anything out? I have a SE and an EtherWave and have been trying to get my SE on the net.

Try ZipIt. Geeze, I can't find DropStuff anymore. Um. Yeah, give ZipIt a try.

I'm unsure if simply Zipping a file will work. If you download MacZip for your old Mac, you could try just zipping a file on your MacBook and see if it transfers OK. Click to e…

I'm unsure if simply Zipping a file will work. If you download MacZip for your old Mac, you could try just zipping a file on your MacBook and see if it transfers OK.

Drop Stuff will binhex a file.

Don't forget to binhex or Mac binary your files before transferring, or you'll lose the Resource Fork. Click to expand... I got a FTP connection between MacBook and vintage Mac…

I use Fetch 3.0.3 on my LC and turn on FTP on my OS X Mac. Don't forget to binhex or Mac binary your files before transferring, or you'll lose the Resource Fork.

Unfortunately, and somebody may swoop in to correct me on this, I think Mac OS 10.6 removes most of the old appletalk features. If you have a TCP/IP stack on the LC, your best bet…

Tom's hit the nail on the head... just remember to pop in an "official" entry via the web site.

I believe that in previous years, this sort of set up has been acceptable. The main thing about the 'Challenge isn't the arbitrary rules, it's having some fun with old hardware tha…

I'm thinking of entering the Retrochallenge with a little project of my own: to not only get my LCIII (my very first computer) on the Internet for the first time, but also to use i…

Yeah, you can replace it with an ethernet card...the only other type of card ever made for the Comms Slot. Keep in mind, you'll need a CS2 card, rather than a CS1 card due to the s…

Yeah, you can replace it with an ethernet card...the only other type of card ever made for the Comms Slot. Keep in mind, you'll need a CS2 card, rather than a CS1 card due to the s…

Yep, since it's a card. You can replace it with a 10 Mbps Ethernet card.

My Performa 6360 has a internet by phone port that i have never used since the day i bought this mac as a used unit about 5 years ago. Can i remove it without too much labour and …

This is really neat and geek way to connect computers, but now all I have is a: LC 475 with an Ethernet card, MacBook Pro and one Ethernet cable. How to connect this pieces of hard…

what I have done is I have a linux computer (any debian-based distribution that uses apt for package distribution will make this really easy) with netatalk installed. Here's what …

It's like reading a Linux manual, very nice Anyway I'm choosing option 3, "Best for arbitrary transfers at random times". Could you give me some practise advice in this topic?

Hello, what is the easiest way to transfer files between a LC 475 (7.5.3) and a MacBook Pro (10.6.2)? Click to expand... "Easiest"? USB floppy on the MacBook Pro. "Easiest i…