Dana Ross's Retrocomputing Adventures
I picked up a Macintosh Plus years back at a vintage computer show and it’s mostly sat around as a conversation piece. It was one of the first of the iconic toaster Macs and people loved seeing it in my office. The thing rarely worked. Sometimes I could whack it on the side and get … Continue reading Fixing up my flaky Macintosh Plus
I bought a Floppy Emu disk emulator from Big Mess o’ Wires a while back and it’s an amazing piece of hardware. It’s a bit messy to use with the Apple IIc though, because the IIc already has a built-in floppy drive as Drive 1. I had dealt with this using the BMOW Apple Disk Drive … Continue reading “Switching” to The BMOW Internal/External Drive Switcher for Apple IIc
A couple years back, I picked up an Apple //c with the 9″ green-screen CRT made for it, a power supply, and the somewhat elusive Apple //c mouse. The package was a good deal at $150, but there was one catch. The monitor obviously took a tumble once, and the plastic bezel was cracked and … Continue reading Restoring the Apple //c monitor