Documenting my retro computing one project at a time
As part of #MARCHintosh 2025 (and also after a nudge from @europlus to reduce my Zone range numbers on #globaltalk) I decided to try and resurrect my Work Group Server (WGS) 6150 and set it up as an AppleShare file server and…
Leave a CommentAfter reading Federico Viticci’s excellent review of the new iPad Mini 7 titled “iPad mini Review: The Third Place” I had an epiphany that has solved something I have been toiling over since I retired from Apple three years ago, what to…
Leave a CommentThe IIc holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I ever bought new having previously owned a secondhand Apple II EuroPlus. This computer along with AppleWorks saw me through four years of university churning out endless essays and…
Leave a CommentWAS THE STAR NL-10 PRINTER REALLY IMAGEWRITER II COMPATIBLE? My first experience with the word “compatible” came in the form of a Star NL-10 printer advertised as “ImageWriter II compatible”. It was a unique printer as it came with either a parallel…
Leave a CommentSo MARCHintosh is now over and I am exhausted. Let me explain. Firstly, What is MARCHintosh and what’s with the name? Very simply #MARCHintosh is a month (March) where a group of retrpcomputing enthusiasts work on projects based on 68K and PPC…
Leave a CommentI acquired a working PowerBook 2400c/180 from a friend a while back and thought it might be a good project for the PowerPC Challenge for 2024. It has to be something small enough that I could take it with me on Summer…
Leave a CommentIt all started with me wanting to use a vintage computer without all the modern distractions to blog about vintage computers. My ideal device was something I could sit on the couch with and type away. A bonus would be an easy…
2 CommentsI started work at Apple Australia in January 1996 as an Education Sales Manager selling Macs to K-12 schools and universities. On my first day we got a briefing on a new product that would be launched the following month that was…
Leave a CommentThe final step in a month long conquest was to get the IIe Card to boot from the AppleShare server. In its standard configuration it turned out pretty simple. However it did take a while to work out on two fronts. The…
Leave a CommentI only had two steps left to complete my challenge, getting the IIe Card seeing the server and getting the IIe Card to boot from it. The end was in sight and it seem like a very simple thing to get the…
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