Review: SpeedDock for Mac
I have a love / hate relationship with the Dock in macOS. I love it because it’s useful to have access to all my open applications and files. I hate …
Restoring a Mac SE FDHD: Retrobright and Recapping Fun
What a long, strange trip it has been. For the better part of two months, I’ve been on a journey to resurrect the venerable Mac SE FDHD that I bought …
Review: Mechanical Keyboard Simulator for Mac
Mechanical keyboards are an acquired taste. I happen to love typing on them, because of the tactile feedback. If you have a non-mechanical keyboard and want some of that audio …
The Proud Owner of a “New” Mac SE FDHD
Last week, I became the proud owner of a Mac SE FDHD model. It’s rare for me to find classic Macs on our local Craigslist, so when the opportunity finally …
Review: Cable Labels
If you’re like me, you probably have a rat’s nest of cables behind your TV, computer or entertainment center. Tracing cables in this rat’s nest can be a huge pain. …
macOS Catalina breaks Sonnet eGPUs with Radeon 580x cards
I should have never upgraded to macOS Catalina on my 2018 Mac mini. Mojave was, for all intents and purposes, stable and smooth. Catalina, on the other hand, has broken …
VidHD: modern video output for the Apple IIgs
With the 3.5 inch floppy drives fixed, and a new 4MB memory card in hand, the next task that I faced in resurrecting my Apple IIGS was obtaining a proper …
The Ultimate Resources for Rebuilding an Apple 3.5″ Floppy Disk Drive
As I intimated in my last blog post, I’ve slowly, but surely, embarked on the task of resurrecting my venerable Apple IIgs. Chief on that list was getting the Apple …
Wombats, IIGS keyboards and ADB mice (oh my!)
There is something oddly satisfying about the idea of using a vintage keyboard with a modern computer. I’m no stranger to that, as my previous blog post will attest. This …