Category: Retro Computing
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So long, Server
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
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
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
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
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……
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Online
Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended…
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G4
Purely for the entertainment value, today I’m installing weird operating systems on my 17-inch 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. I briefly had MorphOS, the AmigaOS-alike offering, installed. I installed MorphOS via the…
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Drive
Having nothing better to do, and being tired of staring at the walls, today I decided to move some funds around and go for a drive… The route was simple;…
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Computers
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
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)
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
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…
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
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
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)
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…)
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
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…
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…