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So today at the local Goodwill Computerworks I picked up an Amiga A3000 for $20. No idea if it works or what the specs are. Guess I need to track down a keyboard and mouse for it.

I have a Mac 512K, which has been sitting on my display shelf for the past 5 years. I got busy and forgot about it, and it just sat there. I finally got a set of disks to boot from. I don't want to just plug it in, turn on the power, and stick in a disk. Sitting for so long it might need caps...

For the past week I have been experimenting with OpenBSD. I really like it. It is what Linux used to be. I like that the Install CD with everything is 233MB, compared to the CentOS 6 netinstall CD which is 237MB. I think I am going to am going to move my DNS and DHCP servers over to OpenBSD. I...

Would it be possible to get the quote button back? I know we can enter them manually, but why should I do something a computer can do for me.

Today at the local Goodwill I picked up a ThunderScan for Apple II for $5 If you haven't heard of it, it is a scanner that uses an ImageBanger ImageWriter for the mechanism. You use swap out the ribbon cartridge with the scanner head...

Ok I am fairly sure I am crossing a line here. I don't mean any disrespect, but I am going to cross it anyway. I've been apart of this community getting close to 10 years now. In that time I have always thought the moderation was fair. I am rather shocked to hear that Mike Richardson was...

Akimbo was an IP TV service that folded back in 2007. When they folded they gave me back the money for the set top box and told me to do what ever I want with it. I decided to replace my HTPC with something more energy efficient. So I picked up an Intel mini-itx board with a dual core Atom...

I used to have the URL for where Apple keeps the PDFs of Inside macintosh and the tech notes. I can't find my bookmark and my google-fu is failing me. Anyone have it handy?

I have started work on a project to emulate the floppy drive used in the original Macintosh. My goal is a device which is plug compatible with the Apple external 400KB floppy drive. It will store images on some sort of modern storage medium. I have been reading up on the Integrated Woz Machine...

So I picked up an Apple IIe with a Disk ][ from the local Goodwill. I want to buy some disks to use, but my google-fu is failing me. I seem to recall that it requires hard sectored disks, but then again my memory is known to contain errors.

For the past year I have been trying to get Compact Flash card working in my IIsi. I've tried several cards with out any luck. Most would fail to format and those that did would not boot. Today I stumbled across a IDE to Secure Digital bridge, that coupled to a ACARD 7720U IDE to SCSI bridge...

I am trying to convert my IIsi to run off of a compact flash card via an ACARD IDE->SCSI bridge. I finally found card that I am able to format using FWB Hard DIsk tools. I installed 7.5.3 on there and I just get the flashing ? when I try to boot from it. I really would like to figure out...

Yesterday at the local Goodwill computer works I picked up a sealed box of 10 Verbatim 800k floppies for $3.00. These are prefect for the 512k I want to get going again. They had a buy one get one free sale on media so I also got a sealed box of 10 Imation 1.4Mb floppies, but the great part is...

So are there any Java compilers that run on a 68k? I read some stuff about Symantec Cafe, but I can't find any requirements for it. I plan to run this on a IIsi with 17mb of RAM. I'm hoping that an older version of Java won't be a complete system hog. Especially if I can compile it instead of...

I plicked up a Apple Multiple Scan 14 display today and I am trying to attach it to my IIsi. When I turn on the system the moniotr briefly exits sleep mode, but then returns to sleep mode. Looking at this page it implies that it is not compatible with the onboard video on a IIsi. That a Nubus...