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Added to the collection: PowerBook 1400c
This year, Christmas has come a bit earlier for me — I’m truly grateful to Alex Roddie for donating this beautiful PowerBook 1400c. The machine is in great shape, has very nice tech specs, and came...
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Compact Flash performance on the PowerBook 5300: very first impressions
In my article about the recently received PowerBook 1400c, I wrote: The intriguing part of this setup is booting from the Compact Flash card: everything is even more responsive (opening applications,...
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Checking up on my Compact Macs
I’ve been a bit under the weather these past days, so I thought that one thing I could do while staying at home was checking up on my favourite part of my little vintage collection: the Compact Macs....
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Careful with that Quadra drive
When I was talking about my Macintosh SE/30 in the previous article, I wrote: The SE/30 is the most powerful and expandable of the Compact Macs I have, and I plan to do what I can to keep it in...
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A hard drive for the SE/30 — The long rescue
After the unexpected setback with the hard drive extracted from the Quadra 950, I once again rummaged inside a couple of boxes with stored assorted vintage stuff in search of a possible candidate. I...
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Added to the collection: quite the vintage package
My recent post A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications received a lot of attention, mainly because it was first linked by John Gruber at Daring Fireball, and was then mentioned by The Loop and...
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Added to the collection: 17-inch iMac G4
This year, Christmas came a bit earlier. Richard — the same generous soul responsible for this amazing donation — surprised me again with this marvellous Christmas gift that arrived on my doorstep on...
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→ The Macs Apple was selling in 1996
I thought it would be interesting to offer an overview of the Macintosh models Apple was selling in 1996 and make a few related observations. In a nutshell: there was some level of organisation in what...
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Added to the collection: Power Mac G4 and other accessories
These past years, my vintage collection has expanded mostly thanks to generous — sometimes very generous — donors. These last additions, instead, came from a ‘rescue mission.’ It’s been a while since...
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My new old keyboard
While I don’t have particular problems typing on flat keyboards with scissor-switch mechanisms, or membrane-based mechanisms, I honed my typing skills on fully mechanical keyboards, and I’ve always...
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