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Yeah, I was attempting a guess at the light output, based on extrapolation from roughly how much a single monitor used to light up my room at night. :) Monitors use electrons striking a phosphor coating to produce light which seems roughly equivalent to electrons exciting mercury vapor...

Surely a CRT wouldn't create that much of its power draw as heat? After all, they do end up emitting quite a bit of visible light (5-10W maybe?).

Seriously, Space Quest (and some of the other Sierra games) is exceedingly illogical, infuriatingly difficult, and relies on 80s/90s pop culture to get half the stuff. Even when it came out you didn't have to be stupid to give up on it. http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Space%20Quest/

The LaserWriter 8500 would probably take the "best printer" title, although 16/600s were pretty good too. The main problem with the latter is that pretty much every single one of them you find will need the rollers replaced by now. Not as long-lasting as LaserJets!

The Rev A AlBook 15" models had the same problem due to pressure on certain sections of the LCD during shipping. I would hazard a guess that at some time the iMac had undue pressure on the LCD. Due to the position of the mounting neck, it developed that white spot.

Installing OS X on a PC is a heck of a lot easier with a SATA DVD drive. ;)

Someone did actually do this, in the Classic OS of course. So it'd certainly be possible, although improbable. You would need to write an advanced enough driver that made the Newton look like a Mac serial tablet to OS X. Then you'd also need a USB/Serial adaptor for any hardware newer than a...

In 1999 the very latest 5500s and 6500s would only have been 1-2 years old, so it's not too unbelievable.

Driverguru, thanks very much for posting these tales about the early software industry. It's a fascinating read, especially for someone who also spent many hours playing YBYH as a child in the 90s!

Two IDE sockets really is hard to find these days. Time to get rid of some of your old hard disks?

http://coxy.ucc.asn.au/68kMLA%20Icons%20-%20Vol.%201.zip - Set #1, not really very good http://coxy.ucc.asn.au/srr.dmg Another icon set (5MB because the DMG isn't compressed) that's also not that good - the best icon is probably a 128x128 colour version of the classic Read Me icon and that...

Much like "68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180", here's another blast from the past! Way back to 2002! I don't think I ever finished off Vol 3, as I said back in the day I was kinda rueing the PowerBooks since they've each got individual keyboards with 50ish keys...

I definitely still have my 68Ks around, and my brother still uses two LocalTalk laser printers (it makes sense thinking about it, but it was kinda cool having the Ethernet bridge drive a proper bus network of printers instead of just one).

Sorry for the bump, compulsively name-searching lead me to this thread. Work has been a big timesink for me (who would have thought!) but I get a chance to post and catch up on old topics now and again. Great to see the place is still flourishing despite the many trials and tribulations of...