Computer Roster – Garrett Fuller

PowerBook 165: Testing my first vintage laptop

My 1994 Macintosh PowerBook 165 is alive.

What do I use all of my computers for?

After introducing people to my computer collection, usually one of the first questions I get is: what do you do with all of them?

Instead of giving the same spiel over and over, I decided to write about it.

Introducing the Macintosh SE “SuperSE” & PowerBook 165

January has been shaping up to be a stellar month for my vintage computer and Apple collections, which was made better by today’s scores.

Tidbits: Classic Memory Upgrade + SoftPC Update

After six months of trying to upgrade the memory in the Classic, I was finally successful.

Introducing the Apple ImageWriter II

My Macintosh setup is now complete.

Happy New Year!

Like in 2018, I decided to record one of my computers doing the countdown.

1988 Macintosh SE doing the countdown

This year, the computer was the 1988 Macintosh SE. I synchronized the clock on the SE to the NIST atomic clock read out, and set an alarm for midnight.

Tidbits: Sad Mac – Memory “Issues” in the Classic

Last night, my mood was soured when the Classic started having issues.

IBM ThinkPad T42: Three-year Update

“It sure is nice to get out of that bag…”

DOScember: SoftPC on a Macintosh?

Many vintage computer enthusiasts are celebrating DOScember – using the time to play around with DOS and run some games. Back in March 2019, I demonstrated DOSBox, a DOS emulator that runs on modern machines. But I had a random idea: what if I could get DOS emulation working on one of the vintage Macintosh computers?

Midnight Macintosh Adventures: Follow-up and improving the SE’s volume

I typically don’t start tinkering with my vintage computers until late at night. While I typically don’t have any issues with doing this, sometimes I tend to overlook the simple and obvious.