Vintage Computing – Page 2

Apple Haul + Introducing Macintosh Plus

The year of the vintage Macs continues to surprise me.

1988 Macintosh SuperSE Project: Part 2

The SuperSE’s boards have returned with fresh caps… will it all work?

MARCHintosh 2021: General Productivity on a “minimal” 1988 SE

When people think of vintage computers, they see something relatively useless in the high-tech modern world where even the most basic computers can connect to the internet and browse the web. However, you can still do quite a bit with a 30-year-old computer.

For instance: basic productivity, such as word processing and spreadsheets.

1988 Macintosh SuperSE Project: Part 1

My side MARCHintosh project is beginning…

MARCHintosh 2021: Introduction

Welcome to MARCHintosh 2021!

Tidbits: MusicWorks – Making Music with Classic Macs

Throw away your Yamahas, Rolands, Synclaviers, and other synthesizers – because you can create music with your Macintosh computer.

Tidbits: Classic Memory Upgrade + SoftPC Update

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

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?

System 7 on the 1991 Macintosh Classic

This year, Apple surprised us with two giant leaps forward for the Mac: the introduction of their own M1 silicon, and the introduction of macOS 11 “Big Sur.”

But let’s take a leap back in time nearly 30 years and look at System 7.

FloppyEmu: Getting HD-20 Emulation to work

Late last night, I had a “Eureka!” moment while perusing through the contents of the microSD card that came included with my FloppyEmu.