The Macintosh Battery Web Page
If your older Mac is misbehaving and you suspect it may be the logic board battery, this page may be the place to start. Lots of information for helping get that Mac back in order!

The Macintosh Battery Web Page

Information Age: People, Information & Technology
Photographs & descriptions from the exhibition, Information Age: People, Information & Technology in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The exhibition displays visually and interactively how electrical information technology has changed our society over the last 150 years.
Includes Enigma, Eniac, Homebrew Computer Club and the Apple 1.

Information Age: People, Information & Technology

Virtual ][ Emulator Updated to Version 4.1
The fantastic 8-bit Apple II emulator for Mac OS X, Virtual ][ has been updated to version 4.1.
New in this release:
• A Mac OSX folder can now be mounted as a ProDOS disk image, making it easy to share files and folders between the Apple II and Mac environments.
• The included Spotlight module now also scans ProDOS disks (OSX 10.4 "Tiger" only).
• The program now suports double low resolution graphics on the Apple //e.
• Solved a diskette compatibiliy problem; as a result the game "Alternate Reality The Dungeon" now runs.
• Solved a cassette port compatibility problem; as a result "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" now runs.
• Solved a issue that could cause the machine to run too fast in "high speed" mode (it would behave like "maximum speed" instead).

Virtual ][

Star Trek: Apple's First Mac OS on Intel Project
A very interesting article from Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. It begins:
"The first Apple proposal to move the Macintosh to Intel hardware did not begin with Mac OS X. It began in 1985, shortly after Steve Jobs' departure from Apple. The project was quickly nixed by Apple's management, but it would be revived several years later in a joint effort by Novell and Apple to port the Mac OS to the x86 processor."

Star Trek: Apple's First Mac OS on Intel Project

How to Bronze a Mac
A little light reading for Friday. Even if you don't like the bronzed look, this page steps you through the compact Mac painting process. And really, what is cooler than a painted vintage Mac...hmmm. Yea... Send your lists to news@macmothership.com.

How to Bronze a Mac

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
Bob Lash recounts his experiences. From the page:
"My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford. I was taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom. I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen. Afterwards, they showed me around a large room filled with big cabinets, some with lots of blinking white lights.
They said it was a "computer" and its name was the "PDP-1". A tall thin man asked me to hit a key on a console to make a "decktape". I had absolutely no idea what a "DEC tape" was at the time, but when I hit the key, a small pair of reels BEGAN TO TURN!! It was a moment I would never forget."

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member

Archive of Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters
The Digibarn Computer Museum celebrates the Homebrew Computer Club 30th Anniversary with a Special Online Exhibit! "Phase One features the newsletters of the Homebrew Computer Club that met at Stanford University and around the soon-to-be-renamed Silicon Valley. This is a great look into the deep recesses of the birth of personal computing." Available online are scanned images of these newsletters, 1975-1977! A great history resource.

Homebrew Computer Club 30th Anniversary

A CD Drive in an SE/30
For some reason hardware hacking makes us a little giddy. Increasing function or appearance with a hacksaw and soldering iron just seems so naughty! Here is a page at the Power Colour Classic site covering the useful installation of a CD drive into the beloved SE/30. Lets do it!

A CD Drive in an SE/30

Apple Cart; The II Can See and Speak
Another trip down memory lane at atarimagazines.com, this time an article by John J. Anderson and Owen W. Linzmayer, which originally appeared in Creative Computing, Vol. 10, No. 10 / October 1984 / Page 178.

Apple Cart; The II Can See and Speak

IDEfile - A ProFile Emulator
This is a cool hardware emulation of the Apple ProFile drive for Apple III and Lisa computers. From the site:
"A Lisa Emulator Project can be found on the net, but up to now hardly any working ProFile emulators are known. Years ago, Sun Remarketing and Sigma Seven offered ProFile-compatible hard drives. Tom Stepleton and Al Bui tried to design a bridge from the ProFile parallel interface to an EPP printer port, letting a PC emulate the drive. Project documentation can be found here, but after their prototype refused to work, they abandoned the project. Therefore I decided to design and build my own drive.
IDEfile is a ProFile compatible hard drive for Apple /// and Lisa systems. Emulation of the classic 5MB ProFile and the rare ProFile 10M is provided. I intend to support Widget-10 and a big 20MB Widget-20 too, but before that I have to figure out the syntax of its additional commands. Any help on this is appreciated, also any technical information on calibrating and formatting these beasts!:

IDEfile - A ProFile Emulator