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Can't wait for the prices to come down on huge 3D printers. (Think when laser printers were $8,000, and now you can get one for $100 bucks.) It'll be a good day when we can just "print" a Lisa.

I don't really do a back up. The 5 or 6 Macs that I regularly use could all fit on a 1G thumb drive. Is it worth it to back up a 40M hard drive? The OS install is easy enough from CD-ROM or floppy. Any files that I have on any of my classics are already on my Mac Pro. Getting them back on is as...

Impressive. Most impressive.

You have two! How is this even possible? "Ah, thanks for the Holy Grail. I'll just put it over here next to my other one." Wait, what?!

That's what I meant by interleaving. You'd have something like this: (forgive the crude image, but I'm on a PC at work and the tools are limited.) I'm trying to illustrate that the old data and new data are both visible on the same track. Ergo: read/write errors. PS - you can get DSDDs on...

Still a pretty nice deal for $50 even if the Apple isn't any good or is a frankenstein unit. Those drives and the printer alone are worth a good $50. I bet hat printer isn't too common nowadays and would clean up pretty nice.

The track spacing is different between 1.44s an 800s. It's like formatting a DVD as a CD-R. (Not that you can actually do that, but the analogy stands.) Data integrity falls through the floor when you do this. It'll work in a pinch for a simple file transfer, but not as a means for any kind of...

I too have been needing some sort of keyboard-reducing solution. I was thinking something along the lines of making an ADB KVM/switchbox kind of thing though. I did come across this...it's a Next to USB convertor using an Arduino. I thought about making a Keyboard II version just to use an old...

Get out of here! I had no idea that the Base Stations had a physical card in them. I always assumed all the "wi-fi stuff" was embedded on the mainboard. I just googled for images and sure enough! That's good to know considering you can get base stations on ebay for $10 bucks!

It's machines like that that make perfect candidates for digital photo frame projects. You could get your hands on another LCD and mount the whole thing in a nice enclosure on the wall and have it display a slideshow. Or even just a desktop version. With Wi-Fi, you could also have it display a...

To me, it's not about being in a sailboat, or a powerboat. It's the fact that I'm on the water is what counts.

Ectoplasm.... cue "ghost in the machine" jokes......

Judging by what's on eBay as well as googled images, the indigo iMac didn't come with an indigo keyboard. It was the regular clear/black pro keyboard.

Wow, amazed no one's caught that before.

Wow, what is that? Never seen a Mac with the Apple logo like that. Looks like you have some sort of obscure undocumented prototype. How these things show up decades after the fact is a mystery.

Mini vMac works on Linux.

Wisconsin. Seriously?

Probably not a bad drive. It works 99% of the time. It's just that I inherited a rather large stack of about 300 floppies from my Dad and they're really hit or miss. They must have degraded being stored in the garage for tha past 20 years. It like every other disk throws an 84. All my other...

I regularly buy these generic 50 packs of 800k floppies off ebay. Very rarely do I get a bad disk. Big fan of Verbatim too; never had a problem.

Those are "oopsies". Things they forgot, like missing traces or vias. Or simple reworks in the case there's a bad trace or something. Perhaps they left an unused pin floating and "oops", better tie that to ground.