Recent content by tomlee59

I have yet to confirm this, but "generally reliable sources" inform me that there is a company that is working on a WiFi module with an RS-232 interface for industrial applications. If this is true, then there might actually be a way to connect our compacts (and other vintage Macs) to the 'net...

I've just acquired a beat-up firewire clamshell -- the screen is cracked, and the rest of the poor thing looks like it was run over by a truck (for all I know, it was). Other than that, I can hear the startup chime upon power-up, so maybe it has some life left in it. This clamshell has...

Although I use FW most of the time, high(er)-speed USB is getting to be a real need. USB 2.0 cards abound around here. Are there any that are particularly good (or, conversely, so bad that they should be avoided)? I see no shortage of on-line opinions elsewhere, but I rather trust the folks here...

For $4 I got my first emate. Doesn't work at the moment, but assuming that it can be induced to do so at some point, what choices are there for browsers? I understand that there's Newtscape and NewtWWW...are there others? And which of these is best? And are there imap-compatible email clients? I...

I have a collection of old firewire drives (que cd writers, mostly). What issues are there with swapping out the obsolete drives that currently live inside? I'd like to replace the CD writers with either a big HD or a DVD writer. A quick online search doesn't reveal much wisdom. Before I just go...

So a friend of a friend hears that I'm wacky for macs, and gives me a dead clamshell ibook that he had gotten from still someone else long ago, thinking he'd get around to fixing it some day. Well, he's getting ready to move, and has decided that he's never going to fix it. "Besides, I'd never...