by Daniel L. Taylor | Feb 26, 2017 | IT Annoyances
It never fails. Right when you need your notebook to perform and be trouble free the most. It could be a meeting. A client demonstration. Or you could be in a panic trying to remotely fix some server that’s down. And that’s when it starts. The fans spin...
by Daniel L. Taylor | Nov 3, 2016 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
Recently ClassicHasClass of TenFourFox fame replied to my post The Mythical Road Apple. Apparently he found my post while trying to find out who had edited the Wikipedia page about the Performa 6200. For the record, I was indeed the one who edited that page. After...
by Daniel L. Taylor | May 10, 2016 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
“Are you interested in any other old Macs?” Upon hearing those words I knew I was in trouble. I was in a small electronics thrift store, part of a local recycling center that tries to sell whatever will still power on. I was there to pickup a Macintosh LC...
by Daniel L. Taylor | May 4, 2016 | IT Security
“Grab my iPad and lookup this web site.” My friend’s iPad was sitting next to me so I grabbed it, performed a quick Google search, and clicked the first link. Nothing that doesn’t happen millions of times a day. Only I didn’t land on the...
by Daniel L. Taylor | May 2, 2016 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
In the middle of researching my article on Apple’s x200 series of Power Macintosh and Performa computers something dawned on me: I never sold my old Performa 6300CD. I gave it to my mom. She used it to browse the web and exchange emails for a few years, and then...
