A while back I got my hands on a Compaq Portable II, notable for being one of the first “luggable” PCs. Not the very earliest (as one might imagine from the name, there was a predecessor even from Compaq), but close enough to be interesting yet developed enough to be […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
ADTPro vs. Mountain Lion
The new version of ADTPro has a couple of really interesting enhancements. One is that even the ProDOS version of the client can send nibbles now (before it was only the DOS 3.3 serial client), and the other is that it has now implemented a virtual server that allows you […]
Hey hey hey
Here’s another bunch of scans, this time the materials accompanying the Texas Instruments TI 99/4a. I have two of these, and recently got a nanoPEB, so I’m all set to play with them and report back here. Once I can find the time. Meanwhile: Read this first! TI 99/4a User’s […]
Good on ya, eMate
Today’s batch of scans pertain to the eMate 300 and associated eProbe experiment box that I got from a teacher who was using it in school back around the turn of the century. I’ve included here both the official Apple scans and scans of some of the homebrew documents. First, […]
Of vital importance
Also scanned today were a few bits of miscellaneous paperwork. Not sure if they’re useful for anything, but they’re for some reason mildly intriguing. This came from the purchase of an Apple II plus system and related things in October and December 1982. [Update: four more, from an Apple III, […]
Apple Cat II manuals
I did a bit of scanning today, resulting in a nearly complete set of manuals for the Novation Apple Cat II, although these manuals were not originally mine and some have been, sadly, kind of marked up. The Com-Ware II manual is the worst of them. I hope to unearth […]
How I came to have a UniDisk 3.5
Ever since I’d heard that the UniDisk 3.5 has within it a 65C02, I’ve wanted to get my hands on one. Not so I could read 3.5″ floppies, but so I could try to see if I could get any mileage out of doing parallel processing, dumping computing tasks to […]