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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

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

World of Apple Review: Welcome to Macintosh Movie

At this year’s Macworld the Apple faithful had a real treat in store, but little did I know just how good the treat would be. Ahead of Macworld I had invites to two new movies that were out to cover Apple as a company and the cult following.... Read the full review here. Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on March 6, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 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

25!

I celebrated the 25th birthday of the Macintosh by making and appropriately decorated brownie and playing some of my all-time favorite retro black-and-white games, Lode Runner and Crystal Quest. If you've never played these, fire up MiniVMac or your old compact Mac and give them a try.

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Added by John on January 25, 2009 at 8:54pm — No Comments

Expanding my collection...

So, last week I added another 'batch' of old hardware to my collection! - Power Macintosh 7100/66 - Power Mac G4 466 - Macintosh SE - Newton Messagepad 120 - Powerbook 100 and... - NextStation Turbo I found a collector in Amsterdam selling some of his machines through a 'Wanted' ad on a local Craigslist clone. (www.marktplaats.nl) He really set me up with all the right cables, software, peripherals etc. Last tuesday I've been busy hooking everything u… Continue

Added by Marijn de Jong on January 23, 2009 at 5:11am — 2 Comments

Macworld Article: The history of the Mac, told by those who were there

Rob Griffiths of Macworld Magazine takes a look at Welcome to Macintosh. Check it out! http://tinyurl.com/93475k Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on January 7, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

Macworld screening to include Guy Kawasaki, Jim Reekes, Ron Wayne and others

On Thursday, January 8th a special "Macworld Exclusive" version of the film will be presented on the big screen, with Guy Kawasaki, Jim Reeks, Ron Wayne and others on hand for Q&A after the film. We feel honored to have Guy, Jim and Ron attending the screening. It promises to be a lot of fun for everyone. In addition, a special segment of "Welcome to Macintosh" in which the interviewees speak about what Apple may be like without Steve Jobs is now available on… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on January 2, 2009 at 2:14am — No Comments

Compact Mac Analog Board Components

I acquired a Mac 128k/512k (it came with both logic boards) and a GCC HyperDrive 20 Mac 512k over the last few years ago. Since then, I've spent a lot of time examining the innards of these two classic beauties. Being an electronics hobbyist with an EE degree, I certainly enjoy tinkering. One thing I discovered is that electronic components, especially old electrolytic capacitors, are often in need of replacement to get the machine back in original working condition. I visited a variety of sourc… Continue

Added by James Wages on December 30, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

"Welcome to Macintosh" at Macworld 2009!

"Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us" will be presented for one night only during the week of "Macworld" 2009 in San Francisco. On Thursday January 8th a special "Macworld Exclusive" version of the fi… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on December 14, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Welcome to Macintosh is done and on DVD!

We are happy to announce that Welcome to Macintosh is done and on DVD! As a thank you to everyone that has shown their support over the past year, we are offering a $2.00 discount off the regular price of $19.84 to members of the RetroMacCast. The DVD can be purchased through our website: http://www.welcometomacintosh.com You will see a "Pre-order Today!" link on our home page, which will take you to the store. When you are reviewing you shopping cart just before checking out, put this code… Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on November 27, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Official Selection: 2008 FuzzB Family Film Festival

We are happy to announce that Welcome to Macintosh is an official selection in the second annual Fuzzb Family Film Festival! The schedule will be announced soon (on their website) and the event is December 20-22 2008. Check the Welcome to Macintosh Events page for more information on the screening! Continue

Added by Welcome to Macintosh on November 17, 2008 at 1:45am — 1 Comment

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

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

Should I get a Newton?

Currently, I am without a PDA. I have, somewhere, got an old Sony Clie that I never really got on with and I used to have an XDA Trion from O2 which, despite running Windows Mobile, was pretty good - I could make calls and surf the web on it and it kept my diary up to date. However, it died very quickly and I've been PDA-less since. I have an iPod Touch, but I don't find the calendar quick enough to add meetings to and parts of the iPod Touch/iPhone interface are a bit counter-intuitive (I can… Continue

Added by Chance on September 15, 2008 at 9:40am — 5 Comments

Games as literary aids?

I wrote this on my other blog and was wondering what you all thought on the subject - I'm soon to be a father myself (nervous, but happy!) and I have long thought that I would like to bring up my kids using an old mac (iMac, even) instead of relying on the Baby Einstein or Night Garden rubbish on DVD. I'd love to hear your thoughts! Continue

Added by Chance on September 10, 2008 at 8:35am — 1 Comment