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Added to the collection: quite the vintage package – System Folder
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Added to the collection: quite the vintage package. February 7, 2015. February 7, 2015. My recent post A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications. Received a lot of attention, mainly because it was first linked by John Gruber at Daring Fireball. And was then mentioned by The Loop. And by The Unofficial Apple Weblog. One particularly generous donor and splendid fellow has been Richard. PowerBook Duo 280c, DuoDock II, plus a spare battery for the Duo. Just less than two months ago. And it’s a. ZIP 100...
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About the author – System Folder
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After some consulting work and literary translations in the 1990s, I started freelancing as a technical translator around 2001, and I’ve collaborated with Macworld Italia magazine for the better part of the 2000s. Between 2001 and 2010, I translated into Italian Bruce Schneier. Free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security. For more information about me, check the About Me. Page on my main website, and check the Services. Thank you for stopping by,. The str...
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Finally: bringing Internet to my Colour Classic – System Folder
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Finally: bringing Internet to my Colour Classic. March 8, 2015. March 25, 2015. Among the various goodies Richard. There was an Apple-branded Comm Slot. Ethernet card (Part 820-0607-A), which I hoped I could attach to my Colour Classic to bring Ethernet connectivity and therefore Internet to my favourite compact Mac. Now, the original Colour Classic motherboard doesn’t have a Comm Slot interface, its only expansion comes in the form of a PDS. To see if everything worked, once again I had to turn the Colo...
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Riccardo Mori – System Folder
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Added to the collection: accessories and materials. June 18, 2016. June 18, 2016. With regard to acquisitions for my small collection, I can say that May was a really good month. After the very nice haul I talked about in my previous entry. I received a package from Morgan. Which contained a few items of interest:. Macally 10BaseT/10Base2 Combo LC PDS Ethernet Adapter. After finally installing a similar Ethernet card. In my Colour Classic, now I can give an Ethernet connection to my Performa 630, too.
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My vintage wishlist – System Folder
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Have you got an old Mac sitting around doing nothing useful for you except taking up space? If the philosophy of this humble weblog doesn’t convince you about the usefulness of vintage Macs, or you simply just don’t know what to do with it, you can consider sending it to me. I’m not looking for. Vintage Mac, though. I have limited space as well. Still, there are some desktop and portable Macintoshes I’d like to own:. Black MacBook (specs don’t matter, but it has to be in working condition). The Macs Appl...
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LC 575 or LC 580? – System Folder
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LC 575 or LC 580? March 25, 2015. In my previous article, Finally: bringing Internet to my Colour Classic. I mentioned I have a motherboard from a Macintosh LC 580 in my possession, and wrote that it. 8230;fits perfectly in a Colour Classic and makes for a nice overall upgrade (it has a Motorola 68LC040 at 33MHz CPU versus the original 68030 at 16MHz of the Colour Classic, and the RAM can be expanded to a maximum of 52 MB instead of the meagre 10 MB of the original motherboard). The person who gave me th...
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A brief status update – System Folder
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A brief status update. July 21, 2015. July 21, 2015. Conversely, I’m amazed at how utterly crappy and flawed the DuoDock power supply unit is. As you perhaps recall, in February I was given a complete Duo system. Consisting of a PowerBook Duo 280c and a DuoDock II. Unfortunately, the DuoDock didn’t power on and the PSU was emitting the infamous ‘tick of death’. After the loss of Dropbox. About my data retrieval service. I thought the way I explained how my data retrieval service. LC 575 or LC 580? Rick [...
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Data retrieval – System Folder
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Since I own a couple dozen Apple Macintosh computers of various vintages with related software and peripherals, I want to keep putting them to good use by trying to provide a data retrieval service. I could offer my help. At the moment, I have functioning Mac equipment that can handle the following media:. 800K and 1.4MB Mac-formatted 3.5″ floppies. Mac-formatted Magneto-optical disks (up to 1.2GB capacity). Iomega ZIP 100 diskettes. I can also try to extract information from the following media:. Very t...
