Archives for the 'Retro Computing' Category
Documentaries, Captain Crunch, and Apple Computers
Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Jon
Yeah, they actually do have something in common. I watched “Welcome to Macintosh”, a somewhat light documentary about Apple and how they got to where they are. While the film just barely scratched the surface at what has happened over the years, it did provide some insight into the 30+ years of the evolution of [...]
GUID vs MBR
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Jon
My iMac recently took a dump… a real slow dump. It pissed me off because it looks like it was the HDD again. Yeah, I’ve only had it for 1.5 years and the HDD has crashed twice. The first time Mac replaced it and this time I went with a green WD 1T drive. A [...]
Think you’re oldschool? My TI-99/4 (& 4A) thinks not…
Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Jon
I know that I’m the lesser of two nerds on this site, but I am definitely the nerdiest (chronoligically) of the two of us. I have been nerding out since about 1984. I would have been doing it longer, but it was physically impossible… I was only 3.
Many people talk about their first PC experience [...]