I went to the Goodwill thrift shop in Columbus, NE when seeing a friend I made at Anime Nebraskon, and my wife and I found several things we wanted. I got several games including Oddworld (PS1 game), and several PC games, but I got a perfect in box (maybe installed once?) Diablo II BattleChest...
So, the vintage bug has bit me once again, so I decided to do some old-skool mac gaming with Mac OS 9 as the host.
The setup:
PowerMac Beige G3 Rev.2 board with Revision C ROM. Desktop Form-factor
366Mhz G3 CPU with 512KB L2 Cache
3x 256MB Low-Density, Low-Profile RAM (768MB Total)
Radeon...
I dropped the money a few days ago on a Refurbished MacBook Pro with the following specs:
2.6Ghz Quad-Core Core i7
15" Retina-Class Display
16GB DDR3 RAM
512GB Solid-State drive
The cost? $2,400 with tax (ouch!) but I have been looking at one of these for 6 months and wanted to make sure I...
So I got a Centris 610 motherboard coming in the mail with a full 040 and a spare oscillator (for the proper speed) and I was thinking instead of mounting in a Centris 610/Quadra 605 desktop unit, I would mount it in an old ATX tower and the magical use of a dremel and some sheet metal, I can...
I was talking with a friend today and I asked him if he still had a few things he told me about a while ago (old mac hardware). I picked up today:
Macintosh LC II w/ Unknown RAM (2 sticks kingston), 160MB SCSI HDD, Floppy and PDS Ethernet card.
As well as an AppleCD SC CD-ROM (Caddy load). I...
Found at goodbytes. $100. Will post pics later. Apple is selling the same display for $999
I got it untested (they didn't have a compatible machine to test). I will give it to my mom if it works for her new-ish Mac Mini (Mid-2011)
I went to do a job for a customer at her home office and while doing work she handed me a G5. She was unsure what to do with it. I wasn't sure about the specs and I was kind of apprehensive about taking it (not very fond of G5s). I ended up taking it though. The specs are:
2x 2.3Ghz G5...
Back when I had a MacBook 13 Unibody Alu model, I loved the trackpad on it. When Apple released the Magic Trackpad, I thought it was pretty cool. Never owned one but finally I bit the bullet and bought one for my *cough* hackintosh. I found one used online with a 9.5/10 condition and warranty...
Been thinking of doing simple Video input (Firewire) and Final Cut Pro editing on the go. I headed over to ebay and found a really nice deal. I found a non-unibody white macbook that has much similar features to the plastic uni-body.
Basically a 2.13Ghz C2D
2GB RAM DDR2-800
DVD-+RW DL
13"...
so... my droid charge bit the dust for the second time. verizon wireless decided that instead of giving me a different phone they would replace it with an equally defective droid charge refurbished... after me having to wait 3 weeks to get it. it's under warranty but 3 weeks is too long to be...
So I saw yesterday cray released a new super computer (I know, I am a sucker for cray. it just fascinates me along with super computers and mainframes in general) but it strikes me with an interesting question.
Has anyone built a super computer in the old ages using Motorola 680x0 chips?
I...
So October 31st, some idiot decided they would be funny and stole my honda accord. In it was a 1.2Ghz 14" iBook G4. I also lost 2 iPods (Mini and Nano).
While in Colorado, at a marriot, some staff thought they would take the opportunity when a fire broke out in Colorado springs to go into...
Conquered a few devices lately. Vintage iDevices.
Up first, my friend threw his old iPhone 2G at me. 8GB. Screen is in good condition, won't go past iOS 3.x.x so it will stay unless I decide to Jail Break it.
The other thing is my mom gave me her old iPod Mini (6GB MicroDrive). I am not sure...
I went over to help my dad on his computer. Picked up a few viruses he was unable to get rid of and I was setting up a new Roku box and for some reason the Airport Extreme 802.11b/g base station wouldn't allow devices to join the wireless network.
I went to reset it, pulled out my MacBook Pro...
My friend used to own an iBook G4 1.2Ghz 14" a long time ago before both he and i got macbooks
He ended up giving his old iBook to his sister and yesterday it came back to me. It's broken, and when I took it apart, I found that not only was crap spilled into it (the case looks like crap as well...
Well my mom has the new Mac Mini with 8GB RAM installed (it runs really well) and the iMac my mom had (late-2006, I need to make correction, has the ATI X1600 graphics (128MB VRAM) 2.0Ghz C2D) was supposed to go to my dad since he bought the replacement logic board to fix when the GPU died...
due to a change I am going through in life (and a turning point into being a free person) I am moving out suddenly from where I am, have a nice job lined up, except I am having to leave 3/4ths of my stuff behind. Not a light decision, but I was unable to sell some of it, I don't have time to...
After reinstalling my PM 6500 I realized something a little too late. My floppy disk with the sonnet L2 G3 card was corrupt, and not just corrupt, irrecoverably corrupt. And worse yet, I found out that Sonnet pulled their drivers from their site.
After spending half a night search archives...
So I scored some recent conquests, some mac related, some not (or barely)
I recently won a pair of 74GB WD Raptor (10k RPM 8MB Cache) drives off ebay and I bought a new Sandisk 120GB SSD (btw, OCZ seems to have fixed their issues with the Vertex Plus/2 series of drives lately if people saw my...
So I turn 27 on January 9th (tomorrow for reference from the posting of this topic). and I decided to do something different. Since most people i know are going to be at work (and I being a student and home business person, I have some downtime) I decided to lay out what think Will be a fun...