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Temecula Apple Store opened today

I thought it might be interesting to give my coverage of the grand opening of the Apple Store in the Promenade mall in Temecula. They opened today at 10 AM PDT, so we decided to get in line at about 8:30 AM after having breakfast at McDonalds around 7:45. The weather was reasonably nice around here: it was cloudless and 75°F with 41% humidity, though they supplied black umbrellas and rather expensive Glaceau water around 9 AM. My party got to the Store early enough to be one of the first to be… Continue

Added by Gavin on September 26, 2009 at 3:50pm — 2 Comments

Macintosh Restoration Part Two

I have just taken delivery of a Macintosh Plus and a Macintosh SE. Both were very kindly given to me, by a university lecturer who has just retired. Both machines where stored away in a back room, not being used for years. He found them when he was cleaning out his belongings and did not want them to be skipped. I have chosen the Plus, to be the machine that I will work on to continue my blog about restoring and cleaning. In… Continue

Added by Damian Ward on September 12, 2009 at 8:00am — 5 Comments

Conversations with the Woz

As we look back at hours of footage we shot for MacHEADS, we realize there is so much great stuff we couldn’t have entered the movie. Much valuable and educational archives would have just evaporated, so we decided to s… Continue

Added by mac on August 11, 2009 at 4:14am — No Comments

"The Dragonball Z Computer"

Today me and my dad went up to the dump like normal. In there, there's a section reserved mainly for old junk, but today, I found this old Macintosh SE30 dubbed "The Dragonball Z Computer" by its former owner in that section. And it still works. So heres what it looks like:

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Added by Ian C. on August 1, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

"New" old mac

I have just acquired a g3 blue and white 350 mhz mac tower with a 17" Apple crt monitor. The first thing I did to it was replace the 6 gb hard drive and put in a 20 gb hard drive and install 10.4.11 on to it. The other up grades I did was to install 4 128 mb memory chips, a wireless card, and 4 usb 2 ports card. This is my first tower so it is a different experience of not have to tear apart the computer to get to any of the insides. It runs well on the os 10.4 and I plan on putting in a second… Continue

Added by Michael on June 8, 2009 at 9:55pm — 2 Comments

Welcome to Macintosh gets official selection at Texandance International Film Festival

"Welcome to Macintosh, The documentary for the rest of us" has been officially selected to present at the 1st annual Texandance Film Festival, June 6th @ 3pm. The documentary has presented at six international film festivals including the 10th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival, the 4th Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival, the 2nd Annual FuzzB Family Film Fest, the 1st Ann. Naperville Independent Film Fest as well as the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival and the Delray Beach Film Festiva… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on June 5, 2009 at 1:38am — 1 Comment

Welcome to Macintosh Documentary Gets Sixth Film Festival

"Welcome to Macintosh, The documentary for the rest of us" has been officially selected to present at the 2009 Delray Beach Film Festival in Delray Beach, Florida on May 20th 2009. The documentary has presented at five international film festivals including the 10th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival, the 4th Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival, the 2nd Annual FuzzB Family Film Fest, the 1st Ann. Naperville Independent Film Fest as well as the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival. "We are… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on May 12, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Apple Platinum IIe

I just picked up a great condition Apple Platinum IIe today. I haven't used one in years, I'm so excited! Continue

Added by Christopher O'Neil on March 11, 2009 at 9:32pm — 2 Comments

My Lisa Memoirs

The Apple Lisa II By Adrian Franulovich 28/2/07 I recently purchased an Apple Lisa II for my extensive museum and cache of Apple Macintosh History. I originally thought I would steer clear of anything that wasn't mac related but the Lisa definitely holds a major place in Apple's history. First of all some things I have learned to help make sense of the whole Lisa range. Apple released a few flavors of the Lisa, the Lisa, the Lisa 2, Lisa 2/5, Lisa 2/10 and Macintosh XL. Interesting things ab… Continue

Added by macmedic on February 10, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

25 Years Of Mac: Rob Baca’s 128k Mac

See Robs 128k Mac featured on the Cult of Mac tribute to 25 years of Macintosh! Here are some quotes: "Meet Rob Baca. He’s a serious vintage Mac collector, with a total of 75 machines in his possession. He’s also the man who co-directed the documentary Welcome to Macintosh, which counts among its interviewees our ver… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on January 27, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

Macworld Expo 2009 T-2 Days

Each of the previous years I've attended Macworld Expo, I've nervously made plans to arrive the day before the keynote. If anything were to go wrong, I wouldn't risk missing Monday registration and therefore, I'd miss the keynote too. This year I decided to fly in a day early and not risk it. This would have to be the year Steve Jobs isn't delivering the keynote. The flights today were trouble-free and I took care of getting my badge this afternoon.

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Added by James on January 4, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

I Was a Apple Tech Support Nightmare.

Sorry Apple. I think I loose my Nerd status on this one. Thank you to my sons for getting me a wonderful Christmas gift of an Apple TV. I spend Christmas, and the day after, at work, Bummer. But, it was much less a bummer since my boys drove down to my station and spent the day with me and my Bo at the station. My boys know that anything that comes in an Apple box is a fantastic gift for me. They made me the proud owner of an Apple TV, and I couldn't wait to play with it and see what it could d… Continue

Added by Kathryn on December 28, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Wally and the Magic Smoke

I spent one day taking apart the 12" G4 iBook. I diagramed each layer, taped the screws to each layer of the diagram. Layer by layer I dug deeper until I separated each part that I thought might be causing the problems, and that could be easily replace. I'm leaving it in pieces until it's new hard drive arrives, cuz there is no way in Toledo, I'm putting it back together just to have the hard drive go out next week. Taking an iBook apart more than once every six months without getting paid to do… Continue

Added by Kathryn on December 4, 2008 at 2:00am — 7 Comments

Misleading iPhone 3G ad banned in UK

PC Pro (UK Magazine/Site) did a remake of the iPhone 3G ad that touts the speed of the new iPhone. What was done in a 30 second spot, took more than 2 minutes and 20 seconds on a WiFi connection. The Advertising Standards Authority claimed that the original ad was too misleading and had Apple pull the ad. The side by side comparison can be found here. Is the iPhone really that slow? Do… Continue

Added by Wholly Mindless on November 27, 2008 at 11:29pm — No Comments

Bushel of Apple

I was in the process of adding several apple news and highlights to my page, when I discovered it took forever to load all the "widgets". So I created a mashup of all the RSS feeds I wanted, and using Widgetbox I created a single widget you can add to your page using all the feeds. You can see the widget in action here, or you can add the widget to your RetroMacCast page by going here... http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/bushel-of-apple… Continue

Added by Thomas Kloos on November 22, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

My first Mac

When recently filling out the new RetroMacCast member form, I reflected on my first home computer back in 1984 -- a Macintosh 128k. What a simple yet ground-breaking machine, destined to forever change my view on computing and life in general. No, the Mac does not capture my every waking hour, but it has inspired my love of computers and technology, ultimately leading me to study electrical engineering in college which in turn brought me to Japan. This first Mac was not actually "my" Mac (at th… Continue

Added by James Wages on October 28, 2008 at 8:40am — No Comments

The SE/30 That Does It All

I was recently interviewed by Giles Turnbull of Cult of Mac who had seen my SE/30 and Newton photo on Flickr. I felt especially honored that Giles decided to run this article on these classic Apple machines. UPDATE: How funny. I became a new member just today and after posting my blog entry, I deci… Continue

Added by James Wages on October 25, 2008 at 6:30am — 5 Comments

The Newton is still worthwhile

I have previously stated that I didn't think the iPhone/iPod Touch had gone far enough down the PDA route to be truly useful to the business community, despite the added Outlook integration provided by the iPhone 3G. With that in mind (and considering my old O2 XDA has gone the way of the dodo), I picked up a Newton (MessagePad 110) from eBay for the princely sum of £4 plus postage and thought I'd see if I could make use of that to help me keep my day organised. I just thought I'd update you al… Continue

Added by Chance on October 21, 2008 at 7:39am — 2 Comments

Taking the plunge, switching and Macs vs The Credit Crunch

First of all, thanks to eBay, I am now the proud owner of an Apple Newton. For £4.75 plus postage, I picked up a Messagepad 110, which is fine by me. I know it's not as cool as the later 2100, but it'll do for a start and I rather like the design. I'm looking forward to getting hold of it and am genuinely interested in seeing if I can't run an entire project using nothing but the Newton and my Pismo PowerBook. I don't see why not and, if all goes well, I think I'll post the findings up here. I'… Continue

Added by Chance on October 1, 2008 at 10:04am — No Comments

Why did Macs spend so long being seen as not valid for "business" users?

As I sat at my Pismo the other day, reviewing artwork for a multinational web campaign, the thought suddenly struck me that a lot of businesses are now moving towards using Macs, because the Intel processor lets them use Windows for the "office" style things and the creatives can get on with doing the pretty stuff on Apples as they always have done. I remember, not so long ago, that the great resistance to switching was always based around the argument "well, Macintoshes are great if you're crea… Continue

Added by Chance on September 18, 2008 at 8:38am — No Comments

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