A blog about retro-computing
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
There are a ton of classic Macintosh apps and games available for download on the web. Some of them are high-density 1.44MB disk images and they can be written to a floppy disk via an imaging application like dd or WinImage. Others are not high-density images, but rather 800K images and thus they cannot be written to …
May 14, 2017