There’s still more haul from VCF Midwest, and from what Dan Bashur generously gave me on the way back (thank you again!). I don’t remember which table I bought this from, but here it is. There have been many revisions of the MacBook Pro design, but this one’s my favorite (aesthetically) – looks like a […]

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Long before I was a Mac user, I had two different computers I considered my first; a forbidden Windows 95 Compaq Presario which I took apart when I was 9, as well as my first real computer – an HP Pavilion a420n. My first real computer was the one where I could have my own […]

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If you’re someone who already has an older DSLR (or you just picked one up), one way you can see how your photos turned out is through the camera’s screen – if it offers one. Not all DSLRs have the same features, and many from the 2000s – 2010s range have depreciated enough to become […]

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Within the pile of laptops I brought home from VCF Midwest, one of them was a $5 parts bin 2006 1.83 GHz Core Duo MacBook, from the Wisconsin Computer Club! While digging through I saw this was from 2006 based on the bottom cover, hoping it would be the earlier Core Duo – here it […]

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As seen recently on Action Retro’s YouTube Channel there’s a brand-new Mac 128K out there! Pico Micro Mac is headed by Ron’s computer Videos, it’s about the size of an Altoids box, it’s super light, and even has VGA display out! Built using microcontrollers, you can get a fully functioning Macintosh for a mere $19.99 […]

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Until the ATAPI 6.0 (ATA-6, ATA/100) standard, IDE drives on mostly any computer were limited to a capacity of 137 GB. The first Mac to supersede this limitation was the Revision B Quicksilver Dual 1.0 Power Mac G4 (Logic Board 820-1342-B), whereas the first iMac with Ultra ATA/100 was the 1 GHz 17″ from 2/4/03. […]

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