A blog about retro-computing
A while back I answered a ‘free old computers to good home’ ad on CL and ended up with a Macintosh Color Classic that needed recapped. (http://www.retroadventures.net/recapping-a-color-classic/) I recapped the board and his machine was very stable but all too slow to really use for much. I started looking into the best way to max …
December 16, 2018
Recently, I found a Craigslist ad for a working Apple Laserwriter Pro 630 with accessories for $40. It had ports for AppleTalk, AAUI Ethernet, SCSI HD, Serial and Parallel, all of the cables needed and the manual. I rarely print anything myself but a printed schematic or manual to read through would be nice. I also …
May 26, 2018
My cousin sent me a Craigslist ad recently that was very close to home. It said “For Mac Computer Collectors”. This guy had three Macintosh and one Apple II computers, and an Apple StyleWriter printer, all of which worked when he boxed them up a few years ago. He didn’t want to sell them, but …
April 21, 2018