I’ve been following a project on Reddit for a month by u/ButtonClean9403, in which they’re porting Chrome 117/Chromium over to PowerPC, and with a beta download link available a few days ago, I just stumbled into it this morning. It’s a dream becoming true. More than a compiled-for-PPC Chromium, this is a full port with […]

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With the new iPhone Duo available on the 22nd and the iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max midway last month, it breaks from the pattern of recent iPhone events where the entire year’s lineup is announced all at once. The iPhone Air and 17 are awaiting a refresh, rumored to arrive sometime in Spring 2027 […]

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With the new 2026 Apple TV 4K reportedly set to launch on October 30th, the first-generation Apple TV 4K is now “vintage”, meaning it’s been 5 years since it was last on-sale in 2021. I picked one up in November 2019 to go along with my HiSense TV to have a better TV streaming experience, […]

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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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Margaret Hamilton not only led the Apollo Flight Software Development team to help get us on the moon, she helped establish Software Engineering as a legitimate engineering discipline. She was a pioneering computer scientist who led the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, founded two software companies, published over 130 papers, successfully tackled a notoriously […]

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From the same maker of MultiXFinder who took over the x-asm project in Early 2009; introducing MultiXFinder v0.5 – now on Apple Silicon! This latest version is available for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later.     Rewritten for modern macOS and no longer based on ASM, this […]

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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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Just a couple weeks ago, aobaharuki2005 dropped the latest versions of Momiji web browser on GitHub, including an updated Momiji v140.16 (stable version) as well as a rolling build based off of the latest version of FireFox 156.0 – a browser which is also only a few weeks old.   Featuring some recent security fixes, […]

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A while ago I experimented with an iPhone 3Gs and a color diffraction grating, just see what different lights would look like through the filter; no art intended. One experiment led to another, and suddenly a series of photos with an LED flashlight turns into a new Photoshop project.   (Above: Also seen on “about […]

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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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Another VCF Midwest $10 Mac project (Michigan Vintage Finds at table B620), I’m delighted to report it fires right up and is already helping with projects such as the iMac G3 Indigo + 500 GB Maxtor, and this iBook will remain a dedicated Mac OS X Tiger machine (especially since I haven’t had one in […]

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It’s time for RetroChallenge 2026, and we’re looking for everyone to join – yes everyone! Setup to encourage people across the world to challenge themselves for a month and document their achievements in the process, the ACMS & RetroChallenge judges will follow along and post updates to the community.   How to get started 1. […]

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The G3 is a 32-Bit member of the PowerPC processor family, made by IBM and Motorola for Apple computers between 1997 – 2003. There are several different iterations of the G3 processor used in Apple computers such as the 740, 750, 750CX, 750CXe, and 750FX, though they belong in the same processor family.   The […]

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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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Arriving amongst the stash of things brought home from the VCF Midwest trip, it’s good to see all the plastics and internals survived on this heavily upgraded Power Mac 9600/300. Not sure what to name it yet, but I think it’ll remain a dedicated OS 9 machine. Probably gonna drop an SSD into here at […]

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This was the absolute best weekend I’ve had in a really long time, and I can’t wait to have more of these adventures (I’m smiling on the inside)! VCF Midwest was an absolute blast (and even a bit overwhelming with how much there was!), met some acquaintances and familiar faces.     Also met up […]

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The average width of a human hair is around 50 to 120 micrometers (µm), or anywhere between three and five thousandths of an inch. Now let’s take five thousandths (0.005) of an inch and divide it by 63,500, which equals 2 nanometers – that is the transistor size inside the A20 Pro chip powering iPhone […]

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The Logic Board In a previous article, I mentioned that I had a Quadra 605 logic board with a bad microprocessor. The 605 uses a MC68LC040RC25, a 25 MHz 68040 without a floating-point unit (FPU). It was perfectly adequate for most home users at the time, but the lack of an FPU and relatively modest […]

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