I’ve played computer games since the late 1970’s and the thing that is really remarkable is how addictive they can be. Each level of technology that we run our games through has its own amount of addictiveness. Some of the…
Yearly Archives: 2013
No Slot Clock, Brief Revisit
I fired up my Apple //c tonight and thought I would check out my No Slot Clock. I wanted to make sure it was still working, so I loaded up Appleworks and saved a file. Appleworks didn’t ask for a…
Missing Link, Return to the Apple II
I noticed a glaring omission on my part this morning. I have not posted a link to Mac GUI, my host on the Macintosh side, so I’ve corrected it today. I’ve had fun digging out my Macs and working with…
Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps, Continued
I copied the Network Software Installer file that I downloaded from the MacSE to the ZIP disk for the MacPlus. After booting the MacPlus I double clicked in the NSI file to unwrap it. When that was done I double…
Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps
I did some more reading on the internet today and found some notes here and there that said networking on the 68K Macintoshes could be accomplished between two Macintoshes by the simple expedient of connecting them with a printer cable…
Macintosh Connectivity, Another Step
I managed to connect my Macintosh SE to one of my PCs today. The PC is running Ubuntu 13.10 and I used a cable from MacLink, which I believe is a null modem cable. I have purchased a couple of…
Macintosh Connectivity
I’ve been looking for ways to move files from the internet to my vintage Macs. I can do it by downloading the files to my PC, copying them to a ZIP disk and then copying them off the ZIP disk.…
Another New User Kit Page
I worked on another page of my Macintosh, New User Kit today. Simply enough it is called Macintosh SE, Clean install of 6.0.8 and ZIP Driver. In order to do this page I backed up the hard drive on my…
Macintosh, The Other Apple, Continues
As I started yesterday, for the next few postings I’m going to be working on my Macs. I have found one of the biggest problems with working on vintage computers has been moving files around. There are several different ways…
Macintosh, The Other Apple
I spent today working on the other Apple, the Macintosh. In this case I was working on my Macintosh Plus. I have a Macintosh Plus with a 100MB ZIP drive from Iomega. If you look around the internet you can…
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