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I got a G4 Xserve I could let you have for $100, but you'd have to pick it up in Denver...

Wait a minute, you set up shop in Panera Bread with a 20" desktop monitor?! That's pretty hardcore.

For life's little mistakes, there's eBay }:) Yeah, the stock SuSE Linux install on the 2133 was an absolute joke (what, no wifi?) and they obviously didn't expect anyone to actually use it. I sold it early on and got enough money back to buy another new netbook. The Lenovo S10 was almost my...

Wow, an autofocus Zenit, whoda thunk?

Agreed, very impressive plans! Any thoughts of turning one of those glass-enclosed rooms into a totally "vintage" space, where everything inside is from a specific time period, like a 1980s room, 1990s room, etc?

Lotus Jazz for Windows? Sure you don't mean Lotus Symphony?

I had the TAM and fully loaded it with Sonnet G3 card, USB/Firewire and ethernet! But if I were to do it all over, I'd probably just max out the RAM but otherwise leave it alone. Really neat for running vintage software, but not so much for modern day-to-day tasks: A $300 notebook/netbook would...

Years ago I batch-converted a bunch of the Quicktake 100 photos to TIFF and burned them onto a CD, figuring they'd be safely archived. Well yes and no. The disk and it's data survived okay, but a lot of the resulting TIFF files seemed to contain no readable data due to I-don't-know-what, so a...

The joy of ATV is not having to trudge through the snow in the dark to return disks! As an owner of the original ATV, it's still not clear to me whether the new model gives me any new functionality besides Netflix? Just looked through their streaming selection and thought it was sort of lame and...

Same here. I've had good luck with FreeCycle, but mostly look for people who will commit to a pickup within a few hours. Beyond that, they lose interest or get distracted.

The 128K and three old-style keyboards are a great find! The missing mice are easier to find for some reason.

Watch out for hairline cracks in the gray plastic surrounding the picture tube and be wary of machines which take multiple tries to start up. I think some of these later iMacs may be among the trickier things to maintain in good working order. Think the main problem is they run too hot...

Back when it was new and the local Mac Shack had some to sell me, they actually told me not to, that they broke a lot. If it's anything like the iMac DV, I think the darned things probably just run too hot. But for $50, if you like it, what the heck. If you can keep it cooler or simply don't use...

Ahh, finally did the deed:

You can do a no-solder battery pack: (1) Find the largest 6V sealed lead acid battery that fits the battery compartment. (2) Disassemble Portable so you can see the underside of the battery compartment. The gold-plated battery contacts are simply clipped into place and connected via slip-on...

Nice! At least the 7600 has 10 Base T. I really ought to borrow a Nikon Coolscan and start scanning my own negatives and slides. I got at least 3 friends who own the things and probably have not used them in years. Don't know what to do about the medium- and large-format photos though.

Yes, SCSI-to-IDE bridge card and home made 34-50 pin SCSI ribbon cable. Hard drive is an official Apple service part and came with bridge card already attached to the drive. Actually any 750M+ 2.5" SCSI drive you find is probably just such a beast. The hardest thing to find was actually the 2.5"...

Polycrystaline cells! Those ought to last for decades.

Sounds like an HDTV picture tube.

What's the trick to disassembling those displays?