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In response to some questions on the Australian Mactalk forums, I got my old Macintosh TV out of storage and fired it up for a photoshoot.

I also need to dig out my old 115V power invertor so that I didn't fry the power supply which was not built with Australian 240V in mind! The old beastie fired up beautifully - even the remote's batteries still wo… Continue

Well my collecting juices seem to be back. I've finally found that illusive Apple DMP (Dot Matrix Printer) that I've been looking for! A fellow in Sydney, Australia had one for AUD$5 ! I remember using one on an Apple //e back in 1983 when I was doing some programming on a Summer holiday job. These were the same mechanism as the Imagewriter I and II (ie the C-Itoh) but had the classic parallel interface for the Apple // series rather than the serial ports of the later Imagewriters. That rounds… Continue

Having had my retro-ism renewed, and fast running out of annual leave, I decided to dust off my Twentieth Anniversary Mac for a while today. While it has a Sonnet 300MHz G3, it keeps crashing when trying to load the extension - I'll need to look into that. With the extension gone (and t… Continue

Been a little while since I've been able to do any work on my collection. As some of you may know, I'm involved in a broadcast radio tech show here in Australia (check out theTechTalk Radio website). Anyway, last week we had an interesting collection of laptops in the studio. The co-host was running a PIII with the latest release of Ubantu extolling the virtues of Linux (which I usually agree with) and attempting to connect to the radio's access po… Continue

Picked up a rare NuBus card today from eBay here in Melbourne, Australia: An Apple Remote Access Server Card complete in box with all manuals and software.

I've taken a few photos of the box and contents for those who are interested: Apple Remote Access Server Card photos Essentially this is a four po… Continue