Category: Retro Computing
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Computers
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The casual observer of ye olde blog here might have noticed that I’m kinda into this computer thing… I mean, I’ve been doing computery stuff since the late 70’s after…
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Atari
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My 1-of-6000 Collector’s Edition Atari VCS 800 arrived today. I got it all set up and played some Asteroids and Tempest with the roommate, which was tons of fun. The…
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PowerBook 5,3 (Special Project Update)
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My PowerBook G4 has been under the proverbial knife getting all of the worn parts replaced with new old-stock parts — which is a nice thing about the older laptops;…
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1990 – 2020
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Four decades of Apple laptop in one photo, which also covers all of the major hardware versions; 68k, PPC, x86, and M1. What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Historypeats…
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Can you even imagine Apple computers without Intel CPUs in them? We’re definitely living in the future or something.
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MacBook 7,1
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Being as I traded in my 2019 16″ MacBook Pro on the new 2020 27″ iMac, meaning it needed to go back to Apple, I’m running on an old 13″…
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Xserve 2,1
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A few weeks ago I was successful in re-acquiring my old pre-y2k rihahn.com domain, and decided I should put some sort of service on it. Said service would have to…
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PowerBook 5,3 (The Special Project)
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Back in early 2004 I moved from my home / unicorn sanctuary in Avon Colorado back to Fredericksburg Virginia for a potential teaching gig. This move was fairly spur of…
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PowerBook 165c (Back in the 90’s…)
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This morning’s bit of computer wizardry was bringing an Apple Powerbook 165c back to life. The interesting thing with the 165c is it was the very first laptop with a…
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PowerMac 3,6
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Today’s ‘nothing better to do’ project was reviving an old dual-G4 tower. It’s always interesting to me just how small and snappy old operating systems were. This machine is basically…
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Special Project…
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I’ve got a bit of a special project coming up in the next week or two. Nothing work related, this one is a personal project and it requires these: You…
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VBox is a time machine…
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On and off for a week now I’ve been attempting to create a Virtual Box VDI from an old set of Norton Ghost CDs I created back in 2003 —…
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rihahn.com
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My first “personal” website went online in January of 1996, and was hosted by dimensional.com here in Denver. It was really just a tech demo and advertisement for my web…
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PowerMac 8,1 (The things I do to recover old email…)
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For my mono-no aware project I’ve been sifting though terabytes of archived data, searching for times and dates to try and build a timeline of the past. Part of this…
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It’s birthday computer time!
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Just got back from Microcenter, and the computer this time is made with: The rest of the parts used will be transplants from my old gaming rig – like the…
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The Nvidia Titan-X was released…
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About $1300 later and I have the world’s fastest (this week) video card on the way…
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The Command Center
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As they do every year, the folks in chat were showing off pictures of their computers and desks in a “rate my space” sort of thing – and I played…
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Game testing…
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I’ve made mention a few times here on ye olde journal that I used to be fairly big in the games arena. We dont really do much with the games…
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Merry Christmas to me…
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Just got back from Microcenter with the parts to build myself a PC-based gaming rig… $2400 in parts… But I plan to run Second Life at 30fps come hell or…