Although I alluded to this earlier, I haven’t gone into detail about one of my other relatively recent acquisitions, a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I got it in the original packaging, although the box is kind of beat up. Revolutionary technology made this computer possible, and the power is within my reach. […]
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Power Mac G3 and netatalk
Small update: I installed Mac OS 9.2 on the Power Mac G3, and ran the system diagnostics on it, which all passed. I connected it to the ethernet and tried to use the internet for a while. The internet was slow back in the days of the Power Mac G3, […]
Power Mac G3 on its feet
For some reason, I was not motivated to take pictures of this, but I’ve now cleaned up the Power Macintosh G3 machine, pictured here “before,” and brought it both up to the office and back to life. It was really very dirty. I completely disassembled it (and, again, was reminded […]
Bell & Howell: Power test, and the outlines of a crazy plan
On the Bell & Howell front, I have now cleaned it all up, and reassembled it. In the process, I found this stamped under the keyboard, which pretty definitively indicates that I was right about this being an August, 1981, machine. (Further evidence that the “8138” really does mean “38th […]