I picked up an external SCSI hard drive at a garage sale this weekend. Listening to the RetroMacCast has left me wanting to play with the Mac Plus in our spare bedroom and see what I can do it with. I have System 6.0.8 floppies, so there’s a lot of things I can do with it in theory. But that t...

I’ve noticed a certain…well, I wont say “crazy”…let’s go with “conspiracy-minded”…subset of the Amiga enthusiast population, moreso than I’ve seen with other vintage computers. There are posts on Amiga newsgroups and message boards about ch...

Sherman, set the wayback machine to November 19, 1994.  The Internet still hadn’t made its way into more than  a handful of homes in the US.  BBSs, electronic bulletin board systems, were where geeks pointed their modems when they wanted to chat or share files.  It was easy to rack up hund...

It's a rotary phone that dials pulse, and has a 12-hole rotor that includes * and # . I haven't had a land line in years and I'm still fighting hard to resist the acquisitive impulse here. Of course there's the older SparkFun rotary cellphone, which wins due to wirelessness, but the fact that this o...

aaaaaand finally my italian fellow Nicola D’Agostino has decided to make available to the international audience the precious work he’s taking along since year 2006. He’s making a chronicle of an era in this site … featuring old and new tales from Cupertino’s Infinite L...

I just finished reading an article from the February, 1984 issue of Byte. An Interview with the Macintosh Design Team covers some of the decisions that shaped the original “toaster” Mac. It even has its own drinking game: any time Steve Jobs mentions that some IBM card has more chips tha...

Well, folks, it looks like Classic Gaming Expo 2008 was canceled. This doesn’t effect me personally…I’ve never gone, and haven’t felt much desire to, but the recent posting from the staff struck a chord with me (emphasis mine): “Despite the fact that we fulfilled our re...

I bought an Asus Eee PC this week because I just loved the idea behind it. It’s a 2lb ultraportable PC, and it’s probably going to become my main portable machine. There’s just no need to carry a 15″ laptop around with me everywhere I go just in case I need to take some notes...