The floppy emulator I ordered a few days ago arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the latter half of the day puttering about with antique computers… The emulator came as a box of parts, but was pretty easy to assemble overall and I had it up and running on the…
The first thing one should do with any old computer hardware is work out how to get it to connect to the local BBS. The Mac Plus needed some OS level help to get a modem working… The MacOS 7.1 install ‘works’, but it’s in pretty rough shape from the…
Today we set the wayback machine to 1987… In early 1987 my duty station had changed from a TDU at the Groton Subbase to the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), which was being built down the road at General Dynamics Electric Boat (E.B.). Over the previous Christmas I’d gone back home…