Category: Retro Computing
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Y2K Laptops
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Not all of my interesting antique computers are Apples; I have a few other things that I used back in the day, usually for work, that are pretty interesting… For…
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Work
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It’s a cold, grey, and somewhat snowy day outside and things are a bit slow here at the office, so I figured I’d show off my work setup while waiting…
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Old Code
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I was rummaging around in a box of old stuff, and came across a typed-out bit of BASIC I wrote for my ZX-81. I know it was the ZX-81 because…
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Digital Art
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My first ‘art’ on a computer was a code-based graphic of a pegasus, done on my ZX-81 – which was 64×46 pixels. It was basically digital needlepoint, where I’d made…
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MiniDisc
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Today we set the wayback machine for February of 1998… In late ’97 I had moved to a forty acre farm in the backwoods of Rhoadesville Virginia and was working…
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Photoshop
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I bought my first copy of Photoshop about thirty years ago this month… Which seems like an insanely long time ago. I ran Photoshop 2.5 on my Powerbook 165C back…
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More old iPhones
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It has been a while since my last Old Apple Crap post, so here’s a new one. After my original iPhone, I migrated to a 3GS. Unfortunately the 3GS, being…
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BBSing
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For the sheer Back-To-The-Future-Ness of it, I’ve spent some time over the last few days working out how to get 20th century analog to work with 21st century digital. See,…
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The Apple “G-Machine” trifecta
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Earlier today I posted some photos of my G5 iMac, so I figured I should show off the rest of my “G” collection… Before the G5 there was the aptly…
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Capacitors
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My G5 iMac started getting a little flakey the other day, which usually means one thing; the dreaded aging capacitor issue… See, back in the old days capacitors were basically…
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3D
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Today we set the wayback machine to 1998; the very early days of 3D video games powered by dedicated 3D hardware… The era of “3dfx” and a whole lot of…
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165c
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A long time ago, in the before-times of early 1994, I bought myself a laptop that would change everything… The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 165c had come out in February 1993…
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G5
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In my ongoing expose of all of the old Apple stuff I’ve acquired over the years, here’s my “PowerMac8,1” iMac G5. Back in 2001/2002 I was teaching CompSci at Marianapolis…
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Airport
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Another interesting old bit of Apple tech I have laying about here at home; the Gen1 Airport Express. Before the Apple TV, if you wanted to pipe iTunes to your…
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Case
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The new case for the iPhone came in today… I figured making the iPhone SE look like the Macintosh SE was oddly apropos. Listening to “Blue Morning, Blue Day” by…
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So long, Server
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After many long years, Apple has discontinued MacOS Server. I’ve been using Apple’s server product since OSX came out, I guess it would be 2001 or so, so I have…
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Every Day I’m Shuffling
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Here’s another odd bit of Apple history that you can still plug into a Mac and expect it it to still work… The original iPod Shuffle. This is my 1Gig…
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iPhone, part 2
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For the pure entertainment value of it, I present my original 2008 iPhone… Technically this is an iPhone 2G as it’s the 2008 16G version of the 2007 iPhone 1.…
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Cellphone
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Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and…
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Where the Internet Began
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I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies……