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Yeah - that's what I thought. What a pity. Guess he's gonna need to keep that Pismo a while longer if he insists on using old tools!

Nope - Pages and Numbers aren't liked (personally, I think they're great - but it takes all sorts), but they'll always be iWork to me! and LibreOffice is a) not very native feeling and b) far too complex. Also, despite all being bundled in one application, it's too much like MS Office.

I was talking to a friend who has just replaced their Pismo (with Tiger) with a new MacBook Air. Talk about a speed rush! He loves it - except for one thing. And it's a big one. He doesn't like Microsoft Office. He doesn't like Apple iWork. What he wants is a properly integrated package...

Excellent advice everyone. I'll give it a bash!

I've got a Quadra 650, which has a full 040 at 33MHz.

Honestly, for myself, I have no compelling need - I found myself a Gravis Gamepad and CH FlightStick. But it was a long hunt, and I would definitely have bought a device like this if one had been available. I'd have thought the way to go would be to make commonly available devices (something...

That rocks. Now what about support for joysticks / joypads? That seems to be a function missing from all other ADB adaptors!

Does anyone know what the circuit diagram for the NewTechnology PowerClip is? Would there be any particular difficulty in creating one - I wouldn’t mind giving my Quadra a bit of pep, but I can’t find an original anywhere!

Woohoo! That fixed it. Would it be possible to do the same thing in A/UX - accepting that the network functionality would only work in the MacOS compatibility layer and not in Unix as well?

Bingo Cheesy and Halyardo! Not 'fuses' at all - and now it springs into life with MacTCP and System 7.5. It's not all sweetness and light though, because (whilst everything works in System 7.5), I can't get it to work with System 7.1 or (the one I really want working other than A/UX) System 6...

Nope. No jumpers that I can see. There appears to be a light on the board (at least, it looks like a bulb - and it's labelled LT1) but it doesn't light. And there's a block of what appear to be fuses - but they're very odd looking. The Nubus slot is fine when I put a video board in it. There...

Hmm. Racal's Interlan card is either rubbish - or mine is broken. Or I'm a muppet. That possibility mustn't be discounted. I'm using it with a Lantronix LTX-T transceiver (because it's the only one I have that's slender enough to reach the AUI port on the card) - but none of the lights on...

I can't remember - I can only remember what they did. One was a fractal generator, one was one of those message of the day things, and one was a game like space invaders but the player has to control two shooters, one on the x-axis and one on the y-axis and you can only kill an invader in the...

I used to love "The Mac". My collection got turned to papier mache in a flood. I can't find an archive online. All those awesome old 'mac'azines, lost to history. The Mac were also the first people to 'publish' my software, on a cover disk. Even I don't have a copy anymore!

Instead of sTunnel, which I couldn't get to work either, what about this? https://github.com/PascalHarris/NetGateway It's been a while since I last worked on it - and there were some things which didn't work right - but the instructions are there, and I was at least able to get it to go with...

Nope. Definitely no need to DIY. It’s amazing how old a Mac laptop needs to be before DIY becomes necessary. And when it is that old the batteries tend to be fairly easy to rebuild anyway.

Nope. There's no way those plastic will support such vigour these days. I'm always very, very, gentle with my LCs.

Dead easy to replace the batteries - and I've done it on my my (now sold) 2013 MacBook Pro and my 2011 MacBook Air (which I still have). I always want a reputable brand, so here's a choice of two. Newer may be better than new, but they don't do the latest computers. iFixIt will even do...

Did you know, by the way, that you can run 256 colour software on the built in screen of the PowerBook 180 (albeit in 16 shades of grey)? I used to have a 180 as my main computer back in the day, and I played many games on Wolfenstein on it like this. I'm curious to hear whether anyone else has...

Does anyone know where suitable springs can be bought for a Mac drive? I have one which was rusted to hell. It's all cleaned up now - and checks out electronically - but the springs are shot.