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For Australian listeners of RetroMacCast. Remember, we're ahead of the US, so we hear the podcast before James and John record it ;)
Anyone have a working PB 165c out there? Im having major issues and I can't work out the issue. I believe the FSTN displays are junky after all this time - anyone had any experience?
Wow! What a great find. I had an ImageWriter when I lived in share accommodation back in the day. If I had to print late at night, I used to put a big cardboard box over it, then cover the whole lot with blankets before hitting the Print button be...
As I do not know anything about it, maybe Wiki helps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
Maybe it is possible to download the original OS from the Apple site and to start it up with an external drive ?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mes...
Your soccer (football) players wear green, so this is a compromise !
Ah, this just brings back so many memories of my old IIc. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Love this picture. The light from the back makes it look like it's the Holy Grail. :-)
Profile Information
- When did you get your first Mac?
- IIsi - around 1990?
- How many Macs do you own?
- 10: Mac Plus (no mouse), Colour Classic, Grape iMac, G3 Yosemite, G4 Sawtooth, iMac (flat panel), iBook G4 12", mini (G4, broken), AppleTV, iMac (Intel 20")
- Where do you live?
- Canberra, Australia
I first started using a Mac in 1986 when the company I started working for had two Plus's and two SE's (with 20MB hard drives!) networked using something called TOPS and connected to a ... (wait for it) laser printer. I learnt how to use the Macs never having used any sort of computer before and became the office guru. I bought a Mac IIsi when they came out, and followed this with a variety of work loaned Macs up till a Quadra 840AV. Then there was the dark period. I started working for a company that was exclusively Windows and this was the around the time that Apple seemed to have completely lost its way. I bought a PC for home and gave away all my Mac gear - Apple scanners, Quicktake cameras, the IIsi, etc. but I kept my Newton MessagePad 120 and 2100 :) I passed up OS X intro for XP and it wasn't until I needed a laptop that I thought about getting a Mac again - the iBook with 10.3 turned me back around and was shortly followed by a Mac mini, then an intel iMac which is my main computer today.
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- At 7:29am on April 19, 2008,
John said… - I like the "Macintosh Heaven" banner and logo.
- At 6:42am on April 18, 2008,
James said… - You must be kidding about 30" displays and Mac Pros -- it will be many years before I would consider them cheap. I'm surprised what G5s like mine still get three years later. Too bad for us collectors that Macs keep their value for such a long time.
- At 5:48am on April 17, 2008,
James said…
- Welcome JonG! So are you going to hunt down those old models you used to own?
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