by Daniel L. Taylor | Apr 9, 2017 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
I had been shopping for one for a couple of months. The fastest PowerBook made that could boot Mac OS 9 without any modifications or hacks. I never saw one locally. And most of the examples on eBay had some flaw that I was unwilling to live with. Computers this old...
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 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...
by Daniel L. Taylor | Apr 18, 2016 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
I recently came across Revisiting the Past: A Look Back at the X200 Series by Chris Carson at LowEndMac.com. The article was about a series of Power Macintosh and Performa computers that Apple shipped in the mid 1990’s, all based on the same motherboard with 603...
by Daniel L. Taylor | Apr 18, 2016 | Classic Macintosh, Retrocomputing
In between various software projects, working on the new site, and trying to complete a Left 4 Dead campaign on Expert with only the AI’s to help me, I’ve been writing blog posts about classic Macintosh systems. But I haven’t been publishing them...